Ford superduty inventory ?

spoon059 wrote:

Greene728 wrote:
I see quite the opposite here. We are seeing more gas powered trucks from all the big three makers every day. One of my best friends dad is in sales at a very large volume Ford dealer in Metro Atlanta and he has said a couple of times that the gas engine sales are often times equal to the diesel and a couple of months been higher. Especially in fleet sales. We have also ordered 5 new ambulances this year. All F-450 with the 6.8 V10. Now this really doesn't mean squat. But I think it's a sign of the simplicity, reliability, and performance in these newer and very capable gas engines. Look for the trend to continue IMHO. Maybe why there's not that many gassers sitting on the lots vs.their diesel counterparts???

The problem with the new diesels is they don't like excessive idling and lower speeds. Lots of departments are getting away from diesels (if they have the infrastructure's to switch to gas) because the modern trucks aren't responding well to EMS driving.

Exactly. Our Maint Dept despises the newer diesels in this application. We are a busy dept (15,000 - 16,000 ) calls a year and our last couple late model diesels spent an excessive amount of time out of service for numerous things. The gassers are doing great. Although they have only been in service for about a year to the newest a couple months. However, the one at my station which is also our busiest one is only getting about 6mpg. But it goes wide open most of the time. Lots of idling too. We like them so far!