At Wild Ridge Lawn & Landscape in Indianapolis, owner Joe Wildridge has considered these factors and he’s making a switch. Right now, he has six cab-over trucks for sale. Those landscape trucks are “phenomenal,” Wildridge says, citing their ability to maneuver in traffic and covered storage as benefits. “With the cab-over, you don’t have a hood or engine in front, so you can turn tighter and the visibility is great.”
The issue Wildridge ran into was the cost of replacing a turbo engine on the cab-over. For one, diagnosing the problem was costly and the time to get an engine imported was about four weeks. “That’s lost productivity,” he says. “So, we have our whole fleet for sale.”
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