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Rickieblue
Mar 06, 2015Explorer
All of the reviews I have seen tend to favor Spartan slightly higher than Freightliner. I have just purchased a 2000 Damon Escaper on a Spartan chassis..I never would have considered it if it was a Freightliner because that has a Cat engine.....high maintenance..My Spartan came with a Cummins C series..8.3 liter and is twice the engine that Cat had available for mid size engines. I have worked for a fleet that had both engines and the Cummins had very few issues out of a fleet of 53 but the Cats in a fleet of 6 all had major issues with injectors and coolant consumption. Just my 2 cents but have been around alot of fleet diesels and the Cummins are great. Also for what it is worth..the Allison MD3060 World transmission is bulletproof if it is equiped with that.
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