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his personnel holding their heads a little higher, Jones says he noticed an effect on customers as well. "You can see the heads turn when we pull into a jobsite," he says. Value payback Jones began cycling out his old trucks and replacing them with Peterbilt's medium-duty upgrade, the Model 337. Today, all of the trucks that deliver and service their 3,000-plus por- table toilets are Peterbilts. Nearly all are PACCAR PX-6-powered Model 337s, equipped with either a tank and a pump or an innovative Jones-designed body that can carry 1,000 gallons of waste in the floor, which also serves as a base for up to 12 portable toilets. And Jones has found the Model 337 a money-saver in the long run. "Our maintenance costs are defi- nitely lower with Peterbilts," he says. "Besides eliminating the major repairs, I've noticed smaller things too. For example, we don't change the brakes as much as we used to, and constant problems with the injectors and turbos have been eliminated. "And the PX-6 has been a good engine for us. I've never had to go Work takes ACE Enterprises' president Braden Jones and his fleet of Peterbilt Model 337s to diverse places, such as industrial job sites or the Louisiana State Fair, shown here. Continued on page 14 FIRST CLASS 13