truck manufacturing industry

[dentexpowerstroke]

Anyone else work in the truck manufacturing industry? I work at peterbilt and just wondering if anyone else on here does something similar

[StarDriver]

Nope, but I drive one, so keep building long hoods.

[Diesel Addict]

I used to fix Pete's, I agree with Stardriver, keep making Ex hood trucks!

Nothing better than a Peterbilt and a CAT!

[dentexpowerstroke]

hell now your only options are a cummins or a paccar motor.

[Clayton1985]

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, Ive only had my class 3 since summer and been operating our truck since december so im not all that familiar with the big rigs....
Anyways, the question... Its got a cummins in it (isx) but there is also paccar all over the place too..
(its a 2011 peterbilt, tri-drive etc )

[dentexpowerstroke]

Paccar is the company that owns peterbilt so their name is all over everything.

[Diesel Addict]

Peterbilt and Kenworth. Paccar also has their own engine line they run in the trucks.

[forddieseldoctor]

I didn't know that Paccar had their own line of engines. How long have they been doing that?

[Diesel Addict]

Not sure exactly, I worked for Peterbilt 2 years ago and they were just starting to come out with them. Not sure how main stream they are yet, but since CAT left the on highway business back in 09 Paccar needed another engine other than Cummins to give operators a choice. However CAT now has their own truck so they might get back into the truck engine business. Hopefully. Dont know much about Paccar engines, never had the opportunity to work on them.

[forddieseldoctor]

Hmm interesting.