Can I Deduct Depreciation on a Lease-to-Own Semi Truck?

**fireba11** · 06.26.2012

Originally Posted by DonM

Sounds pretty decent Fireball. How many miles on that Volvo, and is it giving any problems?

That government gig sounds pretty good. I might PM you when I get my post count up. lol...

We have 860k on it now...was 411k when we got it from Lone Mountain. It has a ISX Cummins in it and averages 6.7 MPG. We did do a in frame at 675k, we have 2 burnt pistons and 3 scored liners.

**DonM** · 06.26.2012

The Fuel Mileage sounds pretty decent. How did it burn a couple of pistons? Injector stuck open, or was there any record of having the overhead run? Of course I guess and exhaust restriction could cause that also. Is that an EGR Motor? What did the inframe run you?

Sorry about all the qustions, I'm thinking about buying a truck and going back into the business. Just trying to get a feel for what costs are these days.

**fireba11** · 06.27.2012

Not 100% sure how it happened but that summer we had set for a weekend at the Loves in Richmond, KY and it was steamy hot, needless to say we idled the truck all weekend. The truck didn't run right after that. Ended up replacing a cracked air to air cooler and the truck ran better but was never quite the same until we had the in frame done.

**fireba11** · 06.27.2012

Originally Posted by DonM

The Fuel Mileage sounds pretty decent. How did it burn a couple of pistons? Injector stuck open, or was there any record of having the overhead run? Of course I guess and exhaust restriction could cause that also. Is that an EGR Motor? What did the inframe run you?

Sorry about all the qustions, I'm thinking about buying a truck and going back into the business. Just trying to get a feel for what costs are these days.

Yes it is a EGR engine and the inframe was around 15k