[AT] Good tractor day, finally

[Stephen Offiler]

Agreed Howard and I'll add this:  They are designed to be built quickly and
efficiently, because labor is expensive.   The amount of consideration
given to repair and maintenance varies a ton, and if a change is going to
cost another penny to build, they usually (not always, but usually) won't
do it.

SO


On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 11:46 AM Howard Pletcher <hrpletch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was not in the design area at International Trucks so I did not do that
> work, but I had friends that were.  Generally a new vehicle starts with a
> design that sets the size of an envelope the engineers have to work with.
> Certain things like engines and radiators get their share of the space
> first as they usually cannot be moved around in that envelope.  Then other
> groups start placing their components in the space that's left with some
> groups having more freedom to claim space than others--internal politics.
> Those on the low end of the totem pole are sometimes scrambling to make
> room for what has to be there.  No, they can't make the front end two
> inches longer or add a bulge on the side of a fender to squeeze in what's
> needed although sometimes early in the process that two inches might be
> added when the original concept proves too impractical.  The engineers know
> that serviceability may be lacking, but they have little say in the matter
> at that point.
>
> Howard
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 11:12 AM HERBERT METZ <metz-h.b at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I am not intimately knowledgeable about the auto industry, but my current
>> thinking is the stylists probably have as much authority as do the
>> engineers.  Herb(GA)
>>
>>
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