kb ag - 1/19/2025 09:26

The original style 126's suck engine air from the windshield and are terrible about dust and beeswings in the all-full filter design. The 113's at least suck air from the side and are easy to put in a black screen to pre-clean beeswings out. I covered the hood inlets on the 126 with screen too but it was a little more of a chore.

Visors help the looks. Nice paint scheme helps. Chrome helps. The fit and finish on the Cascadia is much better than the Columbia and fld imo. If your goal is to make money, a Cascadia is much better than a pete. We have a lot of grain brokered and hauled out by brokered trucks. The guys with freightliners get almost 1000 bu legally and the pete guys barely get 800 bu sometimes and usually 1 less turn a day because they waste time telling everyone about their truck or fiddling with it.

Any time I see a big pete or similar kw on a grain trailer I laugh a bit at the stupidity of dragging all that extra weight around. Many times they are 31 to 32 k empty with a 42' trailer. When you are giving up 8k lbs every load, plus paying triple for the purchase of the truck, it isn't going to go well unless you have money to burn. If I have to lift up my auger to clear your stacks, I'm probably assuming you are an idiot.