Honeybadger

AMR tukwila unite! I was in my regular unit (merc sprinter) doing a day trip over the pass and another crew in a diesel ford doing a similar trip caught us up, we decided to give it the beans, and holy hell that Ford walked away. Sprinters have the worst of both worlds, no low end grunt and all top end power so they have huge turbo lag and are add smooth as falling down a flight of stairs. Avoid sprinter ambulances at all costs, they ride horribly, severely unreliable (major engine and electrical problems starting around 50k miles in every single one in our fleet, for a while my rig was out of service all but two or three days a month) and our old 7.3 Fords are barely starting to cause trouble around 450k miles. I have done a few shifts in our gasser bariatric rig and hate it in all ways. Clunky, asthmatic, struggles with seattle hills, thirsty, and your have to work it hard to make it move. The diesels feel effortless By comparison, and as such, don't get the nuts revved off of them, which leads to better reliability. We have a duramax that I have not driven, but one thing I noticed was that it was eerily quiet at idle. Give me diesel any day in any vehicle that weighs over 3 tons. You can just feel when something is just not going to last as long when you drive it how it needs to be driven, and big ass diesels just feel tougher. I'm curious to see how the new little Ford 5 cylinder diesel performs in the transit, but I don't have high hopes.