Kenworth W990 vs W900 The battle of 2019 

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I DO LIKE THAT THE CAB IS BIGGER ON THE W990.

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@@erniecampbell4671 your capslock seems to work just fine 😉

I so agree with you on that one, I'd rather have my own instead of a "fleet" truck

W900 is outdated while the W990 is new

@@evergrandebestrealestate4854 yes but the w900 has a classic look which has been carried on since the 70s

indeed !!!!

W 900 just has style that international there just don't do much for me but each to their own, Peterbilt really screwed up they stopped making their best looking truck and they got them a international in their line up too.. lol.. 😂😂

can't blame you one bit for that.

I drove a 900,and Don't like the looks ,but! Im out voted on that most people love them!

Yea but the one thing I’m starting to notice is the red one has the same face and exact headlights like the 98 freightliner

@@UncleRobsGarage Z ZAZA z

My dad has always loved the W900's.

It's classic for a reason, right?

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Yeah. I like how you're pointing it out. :)

Can totally understand going with that.

Me too!👏💪👍

The 389 peterbilt looks nice and classic too. W900 and 389 peterbilt my favorite but I need that w990 technology :)

I'm surprised that kw made a bigger VHS of the w900 the w990

The studio sleeper is so outdated. Fridge is still on the ground you have to go on your knees and see what's in the back of it. And really is not laid out well you cannot even put a lot of of your stuff in there.

The whole point of the W900 is not to be too modern. I do like the 990 but it doesn't have the personality of the W900!!! In my opinion, of course...

@@zadokmotorfreight2423 I know right

My pick was the W900

Totally makes sense. If you know it and love it, may as well stick with it, right?

@@KenworthofRichfield I am surprised... The 990 doesn't have an option for the 86" studio? That kinda sucks

@@jamesreid3336 It's because of the platform. THe 86" is designed to work with the 1.9m cabs and this truck is based on the 2.1m platform.

@@jamesreid3336 W900 hands down the king of the the road. Can’t beat it in the looks department and overall American Bad-Assery it showcases

haha..... makes some sense.

@@KenworthofRichfield It makes a LOT of sense....why haven't they upgraded the a/c system yet? It's been needed for 20-30 years! It's obvious the guys that design and build trucks have never spent any time driving them in the real world. The '05 T6 studio I owned for 4 years would always ice up and the defroster cannot keep the windshield clear. Nonstick wipers would eventually need deiced...it was a lousy system. I'm glad I'm not out there anymore. Other than that...I loved working out of the many KW's I've had over the years. KW & Cat was a great combo....too bad they don't make 'em like that anymore.

Totally understandable. It's all about finding the style for you as they are both really great trucks.

Ikr thats why i have a W900!!! & a peterbilt 359

Me too 💯 old school

I disagree, the old school sucks.

@@aggomez594 you must be a new age of driver. To drive a old school truck that is well cared for is a great feeling. I happen to be a fan of the w900L but I do enjoy a old R model Mack for that is what I learned to drive in. A good old school driver does not need all the shit we come to take for granted.we all have opinions thank you for yours.

Honestly believe if the w990 had w900 headlights it'd look sleek af!

990 looks like every other generic new truck out there. Can't beat the W900

It’s the family truckster headlights from the movie vacation!!!!

ponycar24fan and real air cleaners. And a nicer grill

But do they light up the road, going over the pass in snow? The stock w900 doesn’t.

I can understand the classic love. :D

W900 is great but Peterbilts 379 o 389 are the best

@@rusbenreyes5695 Sorry my friend, but there is only 1 Icon, and that's the W900, all else are just imitators.

@@pauln4489 I'm sorry for you but there're only one legend that's the Peterbilt 379, look at the movies like Transformers, Black Dog also look it at the show trucks what kind of trucks are the 90% winners, look it at the American cow haulers which kind of trucks they're preferred, better resale, better ride aluminum hood, not fiberglass and too many things to list.

W990 is ugly and the brand new Peterbilt 589 is ugly I'll stick with the Kenworth w900l

​@@robd1859The W900 and 389 are definitely better looking than their newer versions. That being said the 589 isn't too bad, it actually still resembles a lot of the 389. This W990 however looks nothing like the W900...

Or with a Coronado

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The mom is a W900, but the dad is a dolphin.

Or an international

Would have been nice if Kenworth had both trucks with 86 inch sleeper Cabs, To make it a even comparison,33 years in this brand and there still behind on the times

I put this too Kenworth Australia many years ago that the High Beam Blue dash light is too dull hence multiple calls in daylight your LIGHTS are ON HIGH, Know reply, I guess it’s the Arrogance of Australians compared to My home Country of New Zealand, Maybe I should visit USA to see how you compare in personality to us laid back Kiwis

@harleyevans1106 I always found that blue light distracting and too bright..I've even taped it...I know if I got hi on...

I'd rather have the old K-100 aerodyne myself,love the classics

Exactly

Fleet trucks don't have a set forward front axle

Thanks George!!!

hello handsome,how're you doing

@@sarahandrew853 Stop idiot

I can understand the classic love :D

Well said!!!

@Chuck CLASSIC will ALWAYS HOLD VALUE then the other models!!! If U got the itch of new trk, then get NEW CLASSIC STYLE!!! W900L WINS AGAIN & AGAIN!!!!!😎✌🏾👍🏾👌🏾

@@scottycollins6435 damn right.

@@jamesmcfayden9778 YEZZ-N-DEED!!! 😎🙂👍🏾👌🏾✌🏾

Sorry w900 and w990 are ugly ass trucks.

Old school cool it is for you then...

Yes it is. I,m OLE SCHOOL

Mine is a 1995 w 9 and still run over the road. Cat and 18 speed with a studio sleeper.

Stick to W900 old school period if people want to buy W990 Let them buy it, next thing this guy will say the W900 is out dated. Well if you want a Ugly looking so called updated truck go for it .I will stick to my old school

It is really a matter of personal preference, as these two trucks are very similar in so many ways. 31 years in trucking, and my personal preference for most of those years has been the peterbilt 379 extended hood... but I'm considering the w990 as a potential candidate for a future purchase (1 to 2 years out)... unless I cave to wheelbase considerations and go with the t800 to fit more sleeper onto the same wheelbase as the w990 with less sleeper. As I age, I find that my "viewpoint" leans more toward practicality than "cool factor". Rough riding trucks have contributed to my spinal troubles... Noisy cabs have stolen some of my hearing... And I notice more these days in little things... like how useful it is to be able to look down at your steer tire when the maneuvering gets truly "tight", or how much more comfortable I am standing up right from my seat rather than walking "hunched over" into the sleeper. I've always considered the w900L a pretty even match to the 379 extended hood (I just always found the seating of the 379 more comfortable to me personally)... But, IF certain deals come together in the next year or two... And, IF I am buying trucks... They will either be the w990 (meaning that I decided to trade some sleeper space for the the forward axle)... or the t800 (meaning that I decided that the sleeper space was worth the setback axle, and a less comfortable transition from the driver's seat to the sleeper). The choice will also depend partly on which options are on the table for the different sleeper configurations (such as windows where I want them, etc.)

I totally agree!

Yup, that’s why most people love them !!! Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke !!!! Ain’t nothing finer then a big ole Dubya-Nine ( W-9 )

YESSSSSSS@!!!!!!

@@KenworthofRichfield 990 по лучше будет! Из России с любовью 🤘🤠

@@jeeplife7108 Thank you!!! Glad you like the W990 :D

@@KenworthofRichfield 🤘😂

Hands down W990 for me if I had to choose, but I drive a T680.

Thanks!!!!! We've got a Viper Red W990 day cab that would be a perfect fit in the Cardillo fleet. :D

Is it a pricing problem 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@@latoyabrumfield9407 I prefer the old school stuff

I made it 4 minutes, this guy drives me nuts.

Same as what I'm thinking. 2:20 in before he says a fucking thing about the trucks. By then all I can do is make this comment and move on to another video.

Yes, I like how he says, "...but this isn't something I'm going to talk about" after he's already talked about it.

He sounds nervous to me.

That's a salesman for you

It is a phenomenal truck!

Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it!

If it's anything like new 389s only one stack is hooked up. The other is a shiny piece of dead weight

Fax

EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT. With that rounded down hood. I like clean horizontal lines too. Long & lean. Those headlights would look better with horizontal and not the slope look.(imhop). Please keep it looking like a kenworth. Make international or whomever want to look like you instead of wanting to look like them. Kinda like make europe or japan want to be like us instead of us wanting to be like them.

@@JohnDoe-yx6rf Most people in Western Europe are perfectly happy being European. I like living in Europe, you like living in the US. Why the "the US is better than the rest of the world" attitude?

@@pecheur1951 cus it is

Thank you very much!!!!! I really do enjoy putting these together for you guys. I'd love to see what you're designing!

Pretty gay James just like ur Volvo, lol lol, just playing bro, ur w900 is the cleanest truck out here

Thats an opinion and i agree with you

The idea is if you're going to live in it for weeks or months at a time you might as well be extremely comfortable why not have a TV why not have the Creature Comforts of home

@@gearjammer5499 well why do you need a tv you dive your 11 hour day do your log book and go to bed and half the time if you need to see what the weather will be like go 20 min down the road to a dinner or stick your head out the window

Why are you still driving after 48yrs ?

@@crazyjack3357: I need a TV in my truck, because not everyone is a sports junkie, who needs to see every football, basketball, or baseball game that's ever been played. I don't need to watch every Nascar race, to know how well Swerving Ervin is doing in the points poll. By the same token, I can only handle so many reruns of M.A.S.H, or Law & Order. Which between those choices I just mentioned, is exactly, what you'll most likely find playing, on the driver's lounge tv, at your local choke-n-puke! With that being said though, I do need wind down time, me time, after a long hard day, of counting paint stripes. And when that time comes, I don't particularly care to argue, with 20 or 30 armchair quarterbacks, over what we're gonna watch! You watch whatever, I'm going to go watch TV, from the comfort of my bunk, where I can smoke, drink a beer, of whatever else may cross my mind to do!

Sly & Shifty...... Looks like you and I started OTR in the same year (71), I got come from Nam the last time in the fall of 70 and bought my first truck (very slightly used - 69 Ext. hood 359 Pete with V12(NA), 5X4 Spicers & a 36" sleeper), but it didn't really suit my needs for heavy haul so I ordered a new Ext. hood "A" model KW with the V12 and dbl O 6X4 Spicers, 60" flat top all sitting on a 284" wb. I ordered a near duplicate in 1982 (last year for the "A" model and the Buzzin Dozen in KW's and my last truck).... Sure miss the ("real") trucks, and wishing now that I had kept each of them.... especially with what I'm seeing people paying for them!!..... would definitely enhance my retirement funds! : ) I completely agree with you... when I hit the sleeper, it's lights out, but unlike a lot of these "steering wheel holders" of today... when they're sleeping all night, I'm motoring... and on into sometime the next day.... I just make sure I'm always where I'm supposed to be - When I said I would be.

Lol

It's a common practice with Kenworth to use the same cab and sleeper with different models. They have different hoods and what not. It's just like how the W900 and T800 are of course the W900 has been around before the T800, but it's still the same thing. Different hood, same cab/sleeper with a different front axle placement. You can even throw the T660 in that as well.

That's a no brainer since availability will be diminishing. It's like trying to get pre-emissions truck a few years ago.

You dont have to wait. Look at the used market already. Those trucks in a few years go for 30k, 30 yo 1.5m+ mile trucks go for 30-60K. Nobody likes the new trucks as the all have problems, are expensive and a pain in the ass to work on.

Many truckers are terrible when it comes to maintenance that's why you guys have so many issues.

I can understand the classic love. In the same sense, I'm assuming that you also drive a newer car because of some of the creature comforts that it offers also.

Especially if Chuck Norris says so. :D

Can't beat Cat power that's for sure. Other than my W900 my favorite truck was the Sterling tri-ax mixer I drove in 2017 had a C12 pushing four and a quarter with an EF 8LL. That Cat would out pull all the other trucks the construction company I was working for had.

Accio pull start or downhill.

Aaron Sanborn I’ll out pull 90 percent of new trucks out there. And yes my 425 is turned up. Around 500hp if not more.

@@kevinkoz6296 Cat is the king is diesel engines without a doubt. I'm a 2nd gen driver. My Sterling from 2017 was a great truck. All kinds of power and rode really good. I could also go faster across bad roads than the Paystars we had because it sat a little lower and was a little bit longer. One of the most comfortable cabs I've ever been in.

Yeah I love this b model that I drive for a guy! He got it tuned up to bout 850hp and 4.08 rears with well over 2000 ft pounds of torque and its a pure monster!

Agreed!!!!

Thanks Rob!!! I can totally understand loving the W900.....:D

O Lord back to the 90’s you go, what you seek is waiting 👍🏼

Kitty cat for sure is the only way

H yes

I have that and drive it till I retire

My first though was "Did PACCAR hire the Coronado's designer?" Strikes me as a decent compromise between modern aero and classic super slab design.

It's now called the 122SD (if you spec it with the set forward axle), they still sell it. They don't sell the 132" BBC version anymore though

The Coronado is still around but barley just like this hideous thing will be in a few years. They didnt learn shit from freighters mistake. You cant replace a classic truck with a long hood areo truck. Not the same.

@@bjbeardse I was think it was the International Eagles designer myself.

I think the Coronado has better looking headlights than that 990. I actually like the wider looking grill the 990 has compared to the W-9. But he'll I'd take either one any day. I am kinda surprised the 990 isn't available with a studio though

Thanks Anthony! Good luck in the new venture!

I can totally understand that Lyle!

hello handsome how're you doing?

I think a lot of people have that, myself included. Part of it is also the price of a new truck. Once you see stuff cheap in the classifieds it's appealing :)

That's the right spirit to drive those beautiful vehicles ! You must feel "attached" to it , or else you better not climb on it ! Those trucks have their own character but apart from that just to be driving that "BEAST" with pride it's satisfaction and a reward !

Yup

It definitely has that for sure!

The Truckster.

DAAAMMM DAWG I'm LOL 🤣🤣🤣

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Its the truckers truckster. Lol

Just like the W900 and T800 are similar. Are people forgetting that?

@Chuck I don't think it's that ugly. Kenworth has done some ugly trucks and the one that comes to mind is the T2000. I think the T800 looks the best with dual air cleaners on it.

@@waynenorbreyjr9371 well t600 t8 and w9 all had the same sleeper I had a w9 and t6 loved them both t6 gave me the w9.feel with a better turn radius

That’s the 880/579/567 paccar cab

@@byronfrick7155 yep, Paccars new common cab. New cab means new and different models. Since the T680 was released it gives them a chance to offer a different option throughout their product line. I have a feeling that the medium duty line will have this cab one day.

They are discontinued 😪😪

Detroit

My w900. Got a cap motor

Red cummins are beasts man, what is wrong with u? 600 with 2200 torque turned, WHAT? Absolute beast.

John Doe the Cummins died with the n14 in my book

Don't know, I had to drive an old Freightshaker FLD day cab a couple years ago (was a 99 and this was in 2017) and it was falling apart, the passenger window was stuck down and none of the switches were labeled. I was glad when the company took it off the road and put me in a relatively newer 02 Century day cab

Firebird that's because they didn't maintain the truck and with it being a day cab most local trucks see different drivers every day with slip seating so they take the control away from drivers because the driver is never in the same truck long enough too care

I'm older now than 30 years ago but I'm not better. Geez...

If this clown likes these crappy looking aero.damantic rounded plastic looking trucks let him buy himself one of them. As far as IAM concerned these trucks are ugly looking and will not purchase any of them , So Kentworth better keep their W900 in the making.

Thanks Papa Joe! I really enjoy doing these.

I can totally understand loving the classic.

Totally understand that one.

Agree to high. Low, long, & lean is cooler. Seems like the dealers have a bent to get us away from our independence. Looks like a sissy truck.

Giovanni Socci, W900 pales in comparison to the 379/389.

The world's best... Because you have an extensive knowledge of most truck brands in the world...

Thank you!

And I hope that W900 dissapears in the whole of the world. I hate W900, it´s old and ugly.

Ag Gómez..you sound like you are from out of town there pal

@James Michael Wth!

@James Michael There is no reason for hating or making that statement just because someone likes the W990. The 900 will always be a great truck and the new style of 2.1 meter cab that Kenworth has just gives Kenworth other options for newer truck models while still offering it's previous ones. Now sadly the T660 didn't stay around, but the T800 and I think the W900 as well will be around for a while.

They tried to quit making the W900 a couple years ago didn't work out to many orders for them the only reason for the 990 is the factory can assemble them with robots I have worked for KW and went through the factory this is what they want less labor and product is not that good look at the others T2000 T700 T680 T880 absolutely no quality just cheap on the assembly line I do question why they didn't have a Paccar MX engine in them could it be possible they know that engine is the biggest piece of shit in the world trust me I have worked once them never saw a more unreliable engine in my life if you want to complete a 5 day work week buy 7 of them you will have a chance they have plenty of problems and are extremely hard to work on

Glad I could help

It's actually a t680 and a t880

Yep, T680 cab & sleeper or day cab and the fenders are from the T880S. The grille, if people would pay attention to the T880, T680 and it's a lil bit of the W900 they would see the difference. I showed the W990 to a coworker of mine and I showed them the other trucks people are saying it looks like and they even thought it doesn't look like those other trucks.

Exactly, why change something when it aint broke, they had a good thing going and now trying to be like everyone else and ruining these tractors.

@@nicholashosslogan3444 Sometimes you just have to change with the times. Do you really think that these mega carriers are going to purchase the W900? I mean the T660 was the go to truck for them until they released the T700. I mean there was the T2000, not sure how that truck sold. I feel that Paccar in general was behind cause everyone else was offering the wider cab and everything else that goes along with it. The Kenworth models were lacking cab space, especially between the seats. The T2000 might have been a good idea, but I thought it was ugly and just too wide. The T680 was that good balance that they needed. Now the W900 is still that owner operator go to for Kenworth and always will be. The T680 style cab and the studio sleeper would be the ultimate combination.

These other manufacturers don't even come close to the quality of the Paccar brands.

Thank you!!!!! I've been having a ton of fun with these. :D

Kenworth of Richfield does the 990 have a easy lift hood an what is the weight difference between the 2 trucks in the video

Always good to go with the classic, right?

Thank you!!!!Have another one coming out today.....but this one is a bit different. :D

Different is always good! :) I'll definitely check it out!

Thanks Jerry!!!!!