Peter Nunez, founder of Nunez Trucking in suburban Austin, Texas, bought a Freightliner dump truck last year, put his father in the driver's seat, and listened to him heap praise on the truck. "This truck is my dad's baby," said Nunez. "He tells me how amazing it is that it runs the same loaded as when it's empty. Thanks to the (Detroit) DD15 and Allison automatic transmission, it has amazing amounts of torque while hauling almost 25 tons." The truck is Freightliner's upscale model, the 122SD (for severe duty). 'This was the first new truck I've ever bought, so I sat down with Kevin Beran at Freightliner of Austin and we went through that thing with a fine-tooth comb," Nunez said. "We built that truck to be long enough to carry the payload I wanted, but not too long that it wouldn't work well in the applications I needed it for."
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