[detroitdieselspecialist]

I was in attendance at the seminar at Jeff's last weekend.  And the running joke was that I was there to raffle off a engine.  But in fact, I was there to reinforce that American Fleet is strictly a bus repair facility that only works on buses, and on top of all that, we produce a excellent product at the end of the day.  

I am finding that the community of bus owners are getting taking advantage of when they have no other choice but to take there bus to a truck shop for service and repair.  Just yesterday, we have a customer that had the bull gear fail in his engine out in California.  The Freightliner shop wanted $18,000.00 to replace it.  We sold him one of our reman Detroit engines for almost the same price.   And with that, he gets a 2 year/ 200,000 mile warranty on the long block portion of the engine, free towing for the first year and free freight of the engine anywhere in the US.  

Here's the best part, the dealer wanted $7,000.00 to install it!!  We called up a customer in Phoenix AZ that is a bus leasing/conversion company and they quoted our customer $3,000.00.  I then called our tow service to tow that bus out of L.A for $3,000.00.  So for what that shop wanted for install, we were able to get that bus to a shop that has BUS MECHANICS.  And believe me, its worth it to have a bus mechanic work on your bus versus a truck mechanic.  I am NOT saying anything bad about truck mechanics at all.  But they look at engines differently than a bus mechanic.  The main reason they probably quoted that much, is because they don't see that many bus engine installs, so its probably safer to quote high than to get into it and lose money.