thats a ballpark figure based on averages translated from hours to years
customers understand years better than trying to figure out how many hours they accumulate in a year
which for an average single shift operation is 1000 per year plus a little best case scenario will come out to about 15 years average life span
the key word is average

justinm - don't really believe manufactures set their design standards for working components (engine, trans, drive axle) for life in terms of years but rather in terms of hours before major repair can be expected. - I believe the term used is MTBF - (mean time between failure) Most manufactures design with a target of 10,000 - 12,000 operating hours (not key switch on hours) with normal maintenance before major overall can be expected. Certainly, units will go longer than that and some shorter depending on the operations, services, envirmoment, opertors and the 3 dirties (dirty air, dirty oil and the dirty sun of a gun that didn't change them). As I was taught years ago "oil is always cheaper than metal".

When we look at hours on hourmeters the recording can vary widely from truck brand based on what the hourmeter is set up to record - some folks measure key on time (get them out of the warranty period) faster, some folks measure operator in the seat time, some measure engine running time and so on

most manufactures build with 15 years of service in mind

when i see ppl using a forklift as a jack to do their brakes in their hondas and the fork is bending i know it wont go 15
here in metro ny abuse is rampant makes us money
best thing you can do is explain how and y they are messin the machines up and how they can avoid and profit from goin a little slower and easier
if they dont change their ways just cash in

You mean forklifts turn right?Palletjacks cant be fastened to a truck with a chain and pulled with 6000lb on them?Must go rethink this forklift stuff.

Driver abuse, you ain't kidding some of our drivers think there Nascar drivers. Some pallet jacks are used as ramming devices for removing stuck shafts on damaged mill rolls.

Brother if you bring that Toyota to Africa the drivers here will show you how you could scrap it in 2000 hours. I have rebuilt two axles this week on brand new 7series Toyotas that looked like boomerangs. Ha ha. But its true what the guys say 20 000 and even more. Toyotas are almost as tough as Mitsibushi.
Do you guys out there also experience driver abuse or not really?
Regards to all here.

Enviroment plays a part also.Most all trucks run longer in a clean well keep workplace.Like we all have right?

Its how end wath you do with end give it the etra service on truck About 14.000 t0 20.000 Hours when you him good care he got more