 Good afternoon everybody my name is Lloyd Sweringer. I work for a premier truck group that's in Salt Lake City and I work with your team here at night on selling trucks, delivering trucks and also helping you guys with the fleet. So today we're going to talk about the model year 24 Freightliner Cascadia. The Cascadia traditionally has been our on-highway truck but it has several different applications that we use in the industry as well. But it's really our our mainstay for the entire Freightliner brand. What we're looking at today is a model 126 Cascadia with a 72 inch raised roof. Basically what that means is the 126 is our back a cab measurement from the front of the bumper and the 72 inches is how high our roof cap goes from the floor up to the inside. Now just so we can kind of take a look at what that actually means. Bumper to back a cab is 126 and also we have a raised roof Cascadia gives you a lot more headroom also allows us the ability to have a bunk inside of the truck as well. So just going back to the front of the truck our trucks for night are standard with the chrome grille the blacked out fender mirrors and the blacked out side mirrors as well. You'll notice here at the bottom we have our Detroit Assurance Collision Mitigation radar. We'll talk a little bit more about the radar and the camera but want to let you know that we're fully integrated with the Detroit product on the night side. So we have our Detroit Assurance Collision Mitigation system. We have our Detroit engine which is a 455, 1650 pounds of torque engine. We have Detroit front axles rated at 12,000 pounds and we have Detroit rears at 40,000 pounds as well. A couple things that you can kind of tell, what we're really going for with this truck is aerodynamics. As we progress through environmental demands on us as a product manufacturer we have to take into consideration how we're going to mitigate fuel economy and lower your carbon footprint as well as well as ours. So if you can look at the front of the truck you can see that we've smoothed out every single detail that we can including closing out the bumper to the front of the cab on both sides and running all the way back to our fenders. Before we leave the front LED headlights are standard on the Freightliner product. For us that's a safety option for us. The LED headlights give you much more visibility than our traditional halogen lights. They see further and there's a wider spread with the luminescence as well. So it gives the drivers a lot more visibility. Also looking at the Freightliner too we've gone to a one-piece design windshield. We used to have a two-piece roped-in version. What that does for us is give the driver further visibility as well. We've also sloped the hood down as well. That gives us increased visibility so that the driver can look a lot closer to the front of the truck. With that let's kind of look at the ease of getting into the truck. We have designed the hood so that any person of any size can pull the hood open with just one hand just like that. And let's say I'm not the biggest guy but I can pull the hood open very very easily. What we see inside the engine again is everything that is very very visible to check our fluids to check our levels. We have our fuel filter here. You can see the axles down here as well. That's our DD-15 but everything whether it's coolant whether it's our oil we can check very very easily with if I get stuck on the side of the road I can tell very very easily what's going on. If I come to the other side you'll see windshield wiper fluid some of the other some of the same things air dryers just everything is very very easy accessible. What that does for us too as a truck may potentially go down on the road our dealership network also can look at a truck very quickly understand what's going on and be able to fix those trucks a lot more quickly. So I'll close this guy coming around the other side. Again going with the aerodynamic theme here we put wheel well fender closeouts around the wheels what again that does for us as air flow comes around it pushes the air flow past the wings and down the side of the truck increasing aerodynamics. We also have aerodynamic fender skirts down here again to close the gap between so air doesn't circulate underneath the truck and air flows across the across the skirt as well. We've closed out the gaps between the cab and the chassis fairings as well as between the side extenders as well. You can see the shape of the fender pushes out so as aerodynamics aero flow goes it pushes out and not to the tandems as well. Two aerodynamic features to also note on the Cascadia we've gone to our aero painted bumper it always matches the cab we don't have any of the air dams on our models over the past couple of years we've had some issues with air dams breaking off so we've gone to just the standard with the just a regular aero bumper. Also something new that you'll kind of see in the past couple years are these air wings. Basically what that does is it actually pushes air off the windshield as well so you have an increased aerodynamic flow of the air as the truck goes down the road. Going inside of the truck battery fire extinguisher five pound fire extinguisher is always mounted here on the side of the driver seat. Def fill is here fuel fill is on the side we have left and right hand baggage compartments as well. If I come inside the cab I have a hook here that can open up the baggage department whether I need to get any kind of tooling chains what have you I can get access on both sides it's just extra storage as well. When I go to the back of the cab very easy to get to all of my air and electrical components on the back of the cab I have deck plate and steps that can allow me to get right on to the back of the catwalk. We have Michelin tires on the on the front with Accuride wheels on this particular model we do do some alcoas as well but this one has the Michelin fronts and then the bridge stone tandems here on the back and again we're rated at 12k and 40k here on the rear. Fontaine fifth wheels we went to Fontaine a couple years ago as the standard here at night air actuated from the cab inside so again we can release the kingpin when need be. Over the past couple years Freight liner has really made a concerted effort to redesign the interior of our truck. What we have here is the new dash that's been in for the past probably three years or so if you're not familiar with the Freight liner product but essentially what we wanted to do was keep all of the gauges in front of the driver so that there there's no distraction for the driver to look on different sides of the of the truck so here we'll have our fuel gauges we'll have our def we'll have all the components and and information that the driver is going to need. What's also interesting about is we've redesigned the steering wheel as well and essentially what we've done is taken the kind of the apple iPod model and we've decided to put in different directional controls that we can control the cluster now the cluster is new over the past few years what we've done is we've condensed the cluster and it's all electronically based and what it'll do is it gives me a lot of information very quickly and again right here in front of us as the driver. Each car does something a little bit different you see here here's the home I can look at my speeds I can look at different optimized idle adjustments here I can also diagnose the truck from here inside the I can diagnose some of my fault codes from here inside the truck I can control my radio and then some also some different stuff with dash and lights and times etc so a lot of really cool features just right here in front and again the whole concern for the driver is not to fade back and forth looking for different controls and different information it's all right here one other thing to take a peek at as we talked on the outside of the truck was the increased view that you have here right out the side right out front of the truck again we took we made this a one-piece windshield so we don't have the bar here in front and you can tell how sloped the hood is that way again it increases the visibility for the driver one thing you'll see here too is our camera system for the Detroit Assurance so Detroit Assurance works when two different phases you'll have a camera system you also have a radar system down there and they work together and again Detroit Assurance is what we feel is kind of a game changer in the Freightliner product fully integrated Detroit product made in Detroit what it does is it gives you again collusion mitigation there's a radar detecting objects in front of it but it also is working with the radar to look at lane departures etc and really reacting to the truck since it is fully integrated that means the engine the transmission the axles all work together along with the Detroit Assurance systems to make it a safer experience for the driver a couple things about the redesigned dash that we did a couple years ago as well as we redesigned this entire thing two things that we were worried worried about were was the accessibility for our service folks on the road to get to components quickly and what that does is mitigate your downtime and hopefully the Freightliners have at least it has less downtime than we have had before in the past essentially this entire top panel of the dash can come off that way service folks can get into the dash quickly can look for components there's wiring harness they can get to HVAC everything very quickly by pulling the dash off and not pulling components out of the front of the dash the other thing that we add is what we call the EVOLT the EVOLT is a pullout cover that gives us even more access into behind the components here also in here is all of my fuses all of my fuses componentry that I can look at right over the over the side of the road as well again in our previous models we used to have a fuse box mounted on the inside of the firewall in the engine this makes it a lot more easy a lot more accessible for me as a driver to check the components here and again I have I have access to wiring harnesses even more HVAC here right behind this component and this will snap in just like that so as we move to inside of the cab there's a few different features that we should really talk about the biggest thing is what we wanted to do was increase the cabinet space here inside the cab with the redesign with the redesign of the dash but also we redesigned the bunk as well we went to Boeing and actually partner with Boeing to redesign our cabinets and especially our upper cabinetry what we feel and you probably have a feel and a look of what you do when you get onto a flight is excess space here and space in the cabinets and everything here that you see comes on every single freight liner that we build we also have an upper shelf here for extra storage and compartment space increased lighting as well one of the things that we ran into with our last design was everybody felt like our cabs were maybe a little bit too dark so what we did to mitigate that is we put LED lights inside the cab for our dome lights and our sleeper cabin lights so it makes it a lot lot brighter here inside with every night truck we have a space for our microwave and our refrigerator comes standard in the trucks and we also have a flat screen TV mount that you can mount your TVs here and relax here in the in the cab what we also did inside the new cab is we each of the night trucks will have a double bunk in them that way it's accessible for single drivers but also teams as well there's a new ladder system to get to the upper bunk as well which brings out our ladder and comes all the way down to the floor it gives the person up here who's sleeping in the top bunk easily acts of accessibility to the top bunk but also kind of keeps all of our componentry kind of together because in our last truck the the ladder was over here and it took a little bit for our for the drivers to get into the bunk so and again that goes very simply back into the back into the cab and snaps right back in just like that again a really good redesign that we did for the for the truck and we're very very proud of this interior so a couple of our options that we really should talk about in our sleeper in our sleeper trucks are two things there is a panic button here night's very very sensitive obviously to the safety of their drivers and we're also really interested in making sure that there's an option there available so if there's ever anything that's a distress or panic situation there is a panic button which sounds the the horns and flashes lights and it really allows us to allows people to that's not in the truck to understand that there may be a potential dangerous situation the other thing too is opt idle each one of our trucks are are designed with opt idle in the trucks and they're designed with comfort mode so a couple of things about opt idle opt idle is a option that we use to control when trucks idle there's a couple of different reasons why we would do that one better fuel economy but also the reliability of our components within the truck so it's temperature driven but also it's battery driven too so if our batteries get too low the truck will cut on to charge the batteries but necessarily for here we're talking about a temperature so for here at night the low temperature setting is at 30 degrees the high temperature is at 70 degrees very high so within that band the truck won't idle but outside the truck will cut on and it'll actually cool the truck down or warm the truck down as well here in the bunker there's two different controls there's one for the blower and there's one for a temperature setting as well so a couple things to really kind of understand the blower for opt idle to work we really do need to have some type of a the blower on you can kind of hear the truck start to blow up here in the front for it to really cut on we really need to have that up not all the way not blowing all the way but just really moderately focused this is our temperature setting control and it's not necessarily cold air versus warm air what it does is it's a different it's a thermostat so right here down the lowest setting down here at the bottom of the blue if you can see the indicator here is about 60 degrees when we turn it to the middle it's about 72 degrees all the way to the end is about 85 degrees so two keys and one two of the biggest questions that we run into from drivers is hey my opt idle cut out typically what happens is either they've got the blower up too high or you know if it's a hot day they have it cranked all the way down to 60 what we recommend and so what the truck is trying to do is it's trying to cool or warm the truck to those prescribed temperatures what we typically try to tell and sometimes if the truck can't get to it the opt idle will just shut down completely and then we get complaints of why is the opt idle not working our suggestion is turn the blower up again just minor and then also probably turn it to about 72 degrees what will happen is the truck will start to cool down and then from there you can adjust where you want to but again opt idle is a great feature and if done right can really increase your experience here in the truck that's our review of the model year 24 freight liner cascadia again thank you again for your time and reviewing the video we're extremely happy to be working with you the drivers night transportation and really really happy about the experience