What if it Snows?

Probably not any. Inspect it good. Should have at least another year, 150k of good service from it. 750k get ready for something. Water pump, fan, little stuff. Keeping up with the little things, helps a lot when a big repair is needed. Strange how a Truck can go from excellent to junk, over one breakdown. Back to excellent after it’s fixed. Between paint, and alignment. Might just get a better Truck back.

 

I wonder about the emissions? I have all that crap on my truck. What are your thoughts on fixing it permanatly?

 

Do it right you’re set……

 

How does a feller go about finding a shop to do it the right way ?

 

Hope the Truck comes out good. Quite an asset to have now. For Work, or For Sale. Nothing but Opportunity on your horizon.

 

Word of mouth and seeing in person trucks said shop repaired …..

 

I’d run your truck for a year or so see how it is the either fix it up or dump it for a new one…..

 

Sounds like you are committed to staying in a truck?

I would look at running BlueBird for a while. Just put the money you were sending to the finance company into a separate "new to you truck/Maintenance account". In a year or so you should be able to trade up.

The increase in prices are from a shortage of truck inventory caused by the truck manufacturers that are having problems getting new trucks finished and out the door because of supply line problems. That lack of new trucks is causing major carriers to hold their trucks a bit longer drying up the supply of used. That supply drop has combined with higher demand as new players are trying on the owner operator/small fleet panties.

My bet would be that some of the supply/demand economics corrections will happen about the spring of 2023 when the supply chain will get better and the normal spring softening will flush a bunch of those fools.

 

A cautionary note to apply here: The feds are cracking down on shops that do emissions deletes. Feds are pushing dealers and major repair shops to basically seize any truck that has emissions mods and hold them until they are put back to factory. It's a movement that is picking up steam. They are basically pushing to bankrupt the shops doing deletes.

This is recent local stuff for pick-ups but they are looking at big trucks also.
Washington state diesel truck shop accused of tampering with hundreds of pickups to thwart emission controls

 

Slow poke...