An Easy Way to Get Your OWN TRUCK ! - Page 2 - Truckers' Trucking Forum

andrew5184 · **^ Top** #11 02.15.2009

DoubleDear,

Thanks for the information. You provided some great food for thought. I hope you'll continue to post both your and your husband's experiences. What a great resource for those of us who plan to follow a similar path.

Andrew

imlearnin · **^ Top** #12 02.16.2009

I second Andrew. My husband has just started, but would like to own his own truck someday. If you keep posting, I will surely follow.

LadyDallasDriver · **^ Top** #13 03.07.2009

I am looking for a truck to buy this month with a deal like this if anyone knows of one within about 250 miles of Dallas area....

Kinghunter · **^ Top** #14 03.11.2009

lady dallas driver,

post an on cl and i'm sure you will get responses. also, look on truck trader, truck paper, and the such. my friend is in that boat right now and waiting for the good deal to come along.

KH

wade · **^ Top** #15 05.17.2009

In a round about way, thats how I got my first truck. I saw an ad for end dump drivers wanted. I called him and explained I did OTR for (at this time 6 years). He told me he needed people with thier own trucks but I must have talked the right stuff. He said he would buy a truck up to 20,000 and I would just pay him back. $700 a month for my new 94 KW T800 complete with wet kit. I did 50%OTR and 50% city work. I could have paid it off sooner but took my time and paid it off in 2 years and three months.
Like an idiot, I sold it to another driver because I was going to try the college thing.
I just signed papers on my second new truck officially today with a dealer.

DoubleDear · **^ Top** #16 08.14.2009

Even though I'm a few months late, Congratulation WADE. !!

That's the Way to GO !!!

If you can make Smaller Payments on a truck Without Financing it and go for Two Years without any Breakdowns or Repairs,, except for the minor maintenance., oil change and so on,,

You're ONE Step Ahead of the Game!

This will give you the heads , financially , to be able to do more things with your Authority and to Expand Out......
Can't emphasize this any stronger.
Like,,,
We were then able to get more equipment, different types of Trailers, (vans, flat, drop deck) and with that, more of a variety of customers., and even started buying our own loads of produce ( trailer loads right off the farm) to sell out to the Food Chain Stores.

Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments!

Nevada Kid · **^ Top** #17 09.06.2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by DoubleDear

Why buy a Truck only from a dealer?

Some dealers are shady!
You pay much more on a truck with higher payments, along with extra finance charges.

You may be getting one of these fleece trucks, in which this truck has been through many hands. That means, when a truck has gone through many hands, that truck has been beaten to the ground.

We ended up getting two more trucks, and placed drivers in it.

Some company drivers don't give a hoot on maintaining the truck.
Why? Because it's not their truck.
They didn't care about checking the oil or water and so forth. We had one truck sitting in the middle of the country with a blown engine.. because of their negligence. That was another Kenworth that we had.

Finding a truck from another owner operator, you know that truck was well taken care of.
Owner operators, takes care of their trucks, like it was their baby.

yep,and when making the Payments you can talk that and that,and may get a Job then and when too.Just in hard Time is working together importand.
well done Double Dear

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