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Freightliner New Cascadia ride along and interview

Fleet Equipment Staff
By Fleet Equipment Staff
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Where do you even start talking about a truck re-imagined from the ground up? How about where the rubber meets the road? Daimler Trucks CEO Martin Daum went on the record to say that the 2018 New Cascadia with a GHG17 DD15 integrated Detroit powertrain improved fuel economy by 8%—that’s right, 8%—compared to the Classic Cascadia Evolution with a GHG14 DD15 integrated Detroit powertrain.

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He also invited the press and 12 of the industry’s biggest fleets to look under the hood, crawl through the cab and take the New Cascadia for a drive.

So come along as Fleet Equipment puts you shotgun in the new truck and dives into the specs.

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I'll play devil's advocate to: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"--it might not be broken, but could it be better? Sure, your tried-and-true truck spec has worked for you for years, but the latest trucks have model year generations of refinements built into them. Whenever an OEM unveils a new truck with improved fuel efficiency percentages, the rub is that they're comparing the brand-new spec to their previous "best spec". Chances are, as a fleet manager, you're not replacing the truck you bought last year. You're replacing a truck that's five or six years old (if your lifecycles have returned to pre-pandemic normal).

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