There's a very, very simple reason why they have new gear. It's cheaper to run. I run older gear myself and when you sit down and HONESTLY figure out what the repairs cost you both in terms of parts and labor on a per hour basis of operation, the lease payment will be less when it's working steady, every day. The other factor is downtime. Anybody working a machine every day can't afford downtime. That's not to say that new machines don't break down... but if it's a rented machine, it's the rental outfit's problem. BTW, I think you'd find that a lot of that gear is either rented or leased, not financed.... so if hte job goes away, the gear goes back. Then it's Cat's problem. Don't worry about these operators. They've figured out how to keep going. They'll just be another re-incarnation tomorrow or they'll rent the gear...
In terms of working with older gear vs newer gear... the newer gear is generally more efficient, often by a wide margin. Whether or not there's an operator on the seat that can take advantage of that is another story... but it's generally there for someone who can take advantage of it. The other side of that coin is that there are a lot of people on gear today that have little ability... so machines are equipped with a lot of automated features, grade control, etc that look after the technical end of the machine so that a dummy can get production equivelant to an experienced operator. In most cases it just plain doesn't pay a larger outfit to run old gear.
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