I've skimmed through this thread, and I have never dealt with Baskins before, but the huge red flag for me with them is when you look through their truck ads on Truckpaper, the detailed description is nearly identical for all their trucks...."good rubber, runs great, clean..."
I'm sure all 300 trucks run great, are clean, and have good rubber!
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Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by bobobrazil, Dec 29, 2010.
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99% of these trucks are trade in he takes from other dealers. he doesnt do anything to them and sells them out. I know off a fleet that got like ten trucks from them and he is very happy with them.
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yea, with all the container haulers around memphis, 4/32 is good rubber SHC. pavel94, you are correct he buys trucks from the dealers that it will cost the dealers to much $ or repairs to make anything on them so baskin buys them cheap, doesnt do anything to them and sells them cheap and still makes $. I know of 1 pete he bought several yrs ago from a dealer I worked at that had a blown heagasket, needed a clutch and some other things and he sold it as is for $35K. it was a good truck just needed about $15k worth of work! but you get what you pay for! and I agree the op should have noticed a lot of these dot items on his pre-trip, but just my .02 for what its worth.
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It's always "let the buyer beware".... my son and I have bought several "fix-er upper's" in the past and have either run 'em or sold 'em and made some $$$... just know what you are buying.
I'd sooner buy a truck for $5K and do my own repairs and have a $20,000 truck for $10K than go to a dealer and buy a polished turd for $30,000 that's worth $20K...rl928, log trucker, rollin coal and 4 others Thank this. -
don't believe a word Don say's
lied to me over the phone
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I an laughing at you all. Did you not read what I posted. I do not care about the price. I do not care about the age. I do not care it was a PETE. The fact is HE told me it would go threw DOT. You can clearly see it would not. MY ONLY point at all was they LIE to sell a truck. What I checked or did not has nothing to do with what CHUCK told me and what the facts are. This just shows you can NOT beleave any thing they say and when you buy from them ignore what they say and buy ONLY on what you see...
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