It's been a year since I put my 07 cab and chassis to work. It now has 89,756 miles on it. According to my log book, 89% of these miles have been towing a goose neck trailer that weighs a little over 7500 lbs empty. (I just bought a new one yesterday that weighs about 9k empty) The maximum payload I put on it is 15,000 lbs so most of the time the truck has between 7500 and 22,500 behind it. Mileage is averaging 10.1 with the trailer and the times I've checked it running bobtail it averages about 15.8, it has been as high as 16.6 on a long interstate run. I had no problems at all until I reached 50k miles when I had a no start problem. It was intermittent and the dealer I bought the truck at started guessing at and put a flash on it that killed the regen on it totally, plugged it completely up. I got it to another dealer and the tech got it to regenerate again after a couple of days and many calls to star. I was still having a no start problem until it finally set a light and code. Turned out to be a throttle control valve, it was replaced and the truck has run perfectly every since. The Aisin transmission and exhaust brake makes towing a trailer almost fun. The truck has plenty of power stock to do what I need to do. (oilfield hotshot) I have had none of the emissions problems that the pickup models have had, not counting the one tech induced problem. I have had to run the LSD from time to time when I was in an area that didn't have ULSD and the truck seems to tolerate it OK.

I guess to sum it up, after the first year, I am very happy with the cab and chassis. It has done everything I wanted and with the long wheel base is much more comfortable to drive than my 03 was. I see there is another thread asking would I "do it again". In my case, the answer is definitely YES!

 

Good to hear the positive feedback. Good job.

 

EB, thinking about bumping up to a 4500/5500 yet??

 

you have your own authority or leased on with a co.?

 

Good to hear, EB.

Odd you can use the words 1 year, 89,756 miles, and fun in the same paragraph. Glad it's earning it's keep !

Greg

 

what kind of front bumper is that?

 

Im right there with ya buddy. I got about 30k miles on mine in just tad over 3 months and no problems other then the AU flash i recently had which got rid of a couple codes. Truck runs fine even with alot of LSD but since i got my aux tank, i put nuttin but ulsd. Curiuos to see how long the tranny last since I got the sister tranny of the aisan. lol. Wish I woulda gone the CC but live and learn. Either way, congrats on your truck with no problems

 

Not really, this one will do anything I need to do.


I'm leased on to a company.

 

You must be talking about my 03, my 07 has a stock bumper on it. The 03 had a Tuff Country bumper on it.

 

what co.? i'm with rig runners

 

One of the C&C's I bought in May has 86K!
Another, bought in May also, is on its third DPF. According to the tech - the C&C's have a bigger problem than the pick ups.

 

I don't know what to tell you, I haven't had any problems with the emissions except what I mentioned in the start of this thread. I try not to idle anymore than necessary. None of the techs in this area agree with what your tech says. Must be different areas have different problems. One other thing, my average speed vs hours is over 46 mph. What is yours? That might have something to do with the problems.

 

89,000 miles, Let us know how you are doing when you put some real mileage on your truck. Like 500,000

 

89,000 miles???? is that not enough for the man to run in one year??? I think his 03' probably had more like 500,000 on it, I realize that 89,000 miles isn't all that many for one of these trucks, but I doubt if there is another 6.7L Cummins in a Dodge application out there with any more than that on it! I think it's nice to see that he's made it that far w/relatively no trouble makes me feel better with my whopping 26,000 miles on mine!! LOL Dusty

 

Been there and done that, I see you are a Ford driver, so I guess maybe I should have expected a comment like that from you. I can post on Ford and Chev (GM) sites but I would never make a post like that. That's all I've got to say to you.