Freightliner columbia

Well what do you expect? It's a work truck and those items u mention are not needed to make money. Beside the mirrors, but a finger push can get it back in place.

I sat in some really broken plastic crap interior but it ran good and I work with it till I moved up. Now companies switch out trucks every 3 to 5 years so maybe u will never sit in an old truck.
But I suggest to go find an owner operator who's selling and check out their trucks.

 

Kenworth has some nice interior, how about a freightliner Coronado? Kinda the same interior but newer model.

 

I kind of like driving them personally but never had to live in one.
It sounds to me like the ones you looked at were rode hard and put away wet many times, look somewhere else. The ones here are in a bad environment, were purchased used, and look better than that.
The Columbias here haul fertilizer and even the dash screws corrode in time. They seize to the metal clips and brake the plastic panels ,which get brittle anyway, when trying to remove them.
I do not like the quality of the interior and the plastic becomes fragile in time, just replace it as needed and be nice to it. We keep new screws and clips to replace them when out. The yellow and red knobs on the dash are push pull not slam and jerk. We had one guy, Mr. not me, that was real hard on them and the dash was broken in what ever he drove. The electrical systems have some issues also but many trucks do anymore.
We get good service out of them over all using road tractors on and off road everyday. They are not great in the mud. I am good with the mirrors and the markings worn off the switches sounds like a city truck. What is the mileage compared to the hours? Our doors still work good with 700,000 miles but I did have one with a bad seal on the outside of the door glass. The steel channel rusted off the bottom of the glass.
No they are not large cars but they have a good turn radius, ride, drive, pull well, and the are all worth about the same when we get done with them.

 

I used magnetic tape on my century, and you can fasten some external latches to keep heavy gear stowed. Spend a few weekends reupholstering the walls and setting up your cabinets, spend 150$ and get a couple carpet pads custom cut to fit your truck, steam clean the seats/recover them, and you can get the truck cleaned up pretty well. Going pre emissions will safe you enough shop time to complete the tasks above

 

I call Freightliner Century and Columbia trucks "snap-together" trucks. Like those cheap car models when you were a kid. The interior is a joke all the way around.

 

I drove this 2005 Columbia daycab for a few years and really liked it. It was a great ride for a daycab, and had an ez rider seat. I ran it up to 900,000 miles and it was still in great shape. One day, one of the executives at the company sold the truck, sight unseen, and the truck went overseas. I hated him for that.