2002 Ford Super Duty Sold with One Million Miles on the Odo - PickupTrucks.com
They got cummins in dodge trucks with 1. 2 million miles and still goin strong but they got 1,000's of dodge trucks with cummins engines with over a million miles,same trucks,some same trany and same ENGINE NO REBUILD OR ANYTHING AND THERE STILL... The engines in OTR diesel trucks (semi tractors) will go well over a million miles between rebuilds. Anyhow, Ryder would always sell them and buy a new one for the customer before they'd hit a million, but I've heard that 2-3 million is possible with routine maintenance and a little luck. Incidentally Fords (Aeromax) were the WORST semis as far as maintenance goes. Not necessarily the engine (Fords were available with Cummins/Cat/Detroit just like any other brand of semi tractor) But the electrical systems in them were SH. T. The Peterbuilts were good (relatively trouble-free), but more expensive, followed... The first engine lasted 641,000 miles with probably most of those miles hauling a 5th wheel trailer. The second engine probably wasn't a new engine but a used engine taken out of a wrecked truck because it didn't even last a year. The third engine has probably gone for close to 300,000 miles already and still going. 300,000 miles in a diesel pickup truck is impressive period. Source: news.pickuptrucks.com
