Someone on here mentioned maintenance logs. I think that is the key. Most of these million milers have taken excellent care of their trucks. A person could spend a little on good maintenance or a lot on costly repairs and down time.

 

A buddy of mine has a 94 CTD with 490,000. Pretty ragged but it'll smoke like a freight train!!

 

A guy i knew had a 99' PSD ext cab 6-speed 2wd used for hot-shots 700k miles on it with only one bad injector and tranny replacement

 

A buddy of mine has a 2001.5 dually with 400k. The head was replaced at 380k. Runs great, no smoke, lots of power. He pulls a 32ft. tandem dually gooseneck everyday with it.

 

A past member here, BigBlackDodge had I think a 2000. He had I think 438,000 on it when he went to a larger truck for his hotshot business. I have not heard from Joe in a while. He had the usual stuff, injection pump and whatnot but I don't think the engine was ever into.

 

I remember him claiming that much mileage in his signature back in the day...

He has the rare distinction of being banned from DTR and TDR if I recall correctly...

 

Was not aware of that. I generally pay little attention to others ethics, have enough trouble keeping myself going straight down the road.

 

If I remember right, Bigblackdodge traded in his 2000 on a 2003. I am curious to know how that truck is doing, hopefully he will stop back in sometime.

 

I've seen a 99 dodge with 480,000 miles on it, it was a fairly beat to hell truck. I've driven two work trucks one was a 97 ford PSD with 230,000 and the other was a 93 ford with a 7.3 non turbo with about 220000 and it smoked alot. But the most i have ever seen on any kind of truck was an early 90's mack CH with over 1 million miles on an unopened all original motor. It loved to smoke when it started up, i honestly can't think of a time when it didn't smoke.

 

My youngest son is a hotshotter working out of New Orleans, he has a 99 3500 Chassis Cab, auto, with 389,000 miles on it as of a couple of days ago. He has no plans for trading it.