Gas engines in school buses coming back?
Just thought I' d post something a lil different. Got local school budget info and just like everything else in NYS, bigger budget. One item that caught my attention tho is bus purchases. Seems tha...
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SidecarFlip wrote:Old Days wrote:
Here in Colorado they buy a lot of buses that run on propane. The poor diesel engine is being killed by emissions.
EXACTLY. Tier 4 emissions and lowest bidder components are killing a reliable engine and causing maintenance costs to skyrocket.
The day of the end of the diesel is coming and it won't be far off unless manufacturers get their chit together.
I won't buy anything Tier 4. Just bought another farm tractor, a used Pre 4 unit. In the past I always bought new but not anymore and the used pre 4 market for ag tractors is tight. You pay a premium price used to get a pre 4 engine now.
The Freightliner dealership I retired from, a full 75% of their warranty and non warranty work was related to Tier 4 component failures and electronic control systems. Give me a mechanically injected no emission component engine anyday.
Caterpillar was smart. They got out of the on road engine business when all this **** started. They knew what was coming and didn't want any part of it.
CAT was in the game at the start of the DPF era, they just failed miserably at it. We had 11 2010 Peterbilts with the CAT DPF engines and ALL of them had to have repowers by 500k miles. They were the most costly engines across our fleet of 100 trucks.
