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Considering buying a truck and adding a tag or pusher axle? Already bought one, and your friendly expedite truck dealer sent you just down the road to “his guy” where you paid cash to have the axle added, outside of the sale of your truck? Better give this some long thought. He told you if you...

We have a 2005 Proheat (ComfortPro, Carrier, Impco) with an under-bunk climate control unit (CCU). For the second time in a year, we have fried the control board inside of the CCU. These are not cheap parts to replace, and I've had my fill. I adore the Kubota engine on these units (except the...

A little over a week ago, at about the 5,000-mile mark after the installation of the gold-plated remanufactured MBE 900 engine in our 2006 Sterling (a Daimler/Freightliner product), we went in to a TA to have the oil changed. The first thing the tech did was go right to the oil pan to drop the...

The Puerto Rican and I bought each other some new Michelin wide singles for Christmas (do we know how to live, or WHAT????). They're sitting at a tire place near home, as the duals we have still have a little life left in them. For that reason, we still have some travel and shopping time...

Bear with me, I am fighting a nasty cold, so what I am trying to ask may not be clear. Here's to hoping it is: I have an '05 M2 106 with 4 squirrels.........an MBE 900 rated at 250 hp. As Leo has stated in previous posts, I should be thankful for any mileage past 400k on this engine. I'm...

Just finished paying off our first truck, and going to start saving to buy our next. While we absolutely adored driving our previous owner's Sterling, I am looking real hard at engines and fuel economy. While sitting this weekend, I talked to an owner of a 06 or 07 Freightliner with the 300...

I have a 48x21x24 diamond plate, two-latch toolbox, and am looking to find at least one more. Don't know if these were something that Bentz affixed when they attached their sleepers to trucks or not, but I am frustrated at not being able to find them. Anyone have any ideas where I might find...

Okay.....Sunday is my 'scheming' day. A lot of crazy crap works it's way through my brain on Sundays. Don't know why, but please bear with me. We have a 72" Bentz sleeper now. It is not the kind that goes over the cab of the truck, but rather, you walk (or crouch) into the sleeper, where you...

I have been toiling with this idea, and need some advice. Our truck has no APU, and no a/c while idling. The fella that sold us the truck had a portable generator for electricity while sitting. Idling while it is roasting outside is killing us in fuel costs. I thought of this: Roof air...

'New' Owner of a 2005 M2 106 with MBE 900 engine. Can someone please advise me what filters need changed every 10,000 with the oil? Obviously, the primary oil and fuel filters, but what about the centrifugal filter and fuel/water seperator filter? First time I had them changed, I erred...

My frugal self cannot come to grips with paying what I think will be high prices for batteries through Freightliner. Anyone have reasonably-priced chain store recommendations for 2 batteries?