Plus the huge added expense of maintaining these engines is staggering!
Most of my Cummins ISX and Detroit Series 60 work is EGR related.
Lots of problems with the '07 emmission engine's. Our fleet is now getting 13 new '12 KW's with ISX.
Probably true if you assume $10/gallon for fuel.
And that’s a “reality” the watermelons can’t acknowledge ! The math is pretty simple and there are no “magical solutions” to moving a load of freight down the highway. Every OEM serving the industry has been spending mega-bucks for incremental efficiency gains already ! Obviously these government idiots think they can bamboozle the public with yet another fuel efficiency scam - and make the consumers stand in line to pay the piper for their ignorance ! Its worked before !
One “snake in the woodpile” may be the plethora of TV channels. Right now a program featuring Kwhoppers is on Speed Channel. They’re going to great lengths to itemize just how much they’re doing to improve fuel efficiency and how difficult that process is. >PS
Yes Sir, I agree. Were a Detroit Diesel dealer out here in California
and the majority of work is EGR valve, Turbo and Sensors.
It’s really a shame, the mid to late 90’s, Early 2000 engines were
good on fuel mileage and power.