My hubby is a truckie who often carts stock (mainly sheep, but some cattle) he also does all the servicing and washing of the truck and trailers. Our machine is a Samsung with all the fancy settings, it just doesn't do the job our TL (also a Samsung, it lasted a good 6-7yrs) did. I also find that none of the so-called stain removers work, yet they did in our TL. I also have the same issue with the kids school clothes, often they go through two cycles with extra rinses.

As far as towels etc go its great, if your clothes don't get that dirty it's an awesome machine.