Waiting on New Trucks thread.

That was a couple weeks ago, but I’ll be stopping in tomorrow to talk to him.

Prices are all over the place though. Friend of mine said a guy where he’s leased on was quoted $289k for a new 389 next year at Sioux Falls.

 

Not everybody pulls a box, Joe.

 

$289 000?!!!!
Oh my...they must think they pay us all $10 per mile and it is easy to find at least 100 000 miles like that in a year.
Oh my...oh my...
I just got home so I had better have a drink...
Ooh my...ohh my
I need a drink

 

It ain't fair...
This box discrimination.
I protest. I deserve just as much as ... oil field setups!

 

Wait a minute...
@Kenworth6969 is saying that open decks hardly see more than 2 dol per mile too, isn't he?!
At least, I am at a little short of 2.5 on 3000 miles last 8 days...so what's it like with other trailer types?

 

Unless u run open deck freight that gets 4mpg with a tailwind

 

Hey Ted...I can't get rid of that Victoria Secret models metaphor from my head!

 

@Constant Learner
I understand what you're coming from...and I somewhat feel that you received too much heat for your right to feel disappointed that even such a well outspoken member, perhaps seen as a mentor, as @rollin coal is, might not have an immediate solution to your own liking.
You'd expect from a mentor like that to throw $50 000- $100 000 cash down payment at a dealer and wait for a new truck arrival. See...It doesn't work like that...there could be myriad of reasons not to have a lot of cash on hand...what if he bought a harvester to work a lavender field...or something like that?

If I could borrow a truck from a friend and buy some time to regroup, I would do so too, even if I had 1 million on my business account.

More importantly, we are all internet entities and it is a big mistake, which I also make too often, to entrust all the impressions you get by reading posts on a site like this.

The only real world is your own.
But you should know better than asking someone about their wallets.
In the Western hemisphere such inquiries are not considered tactful. It may be somewhat different in Eastern and Central Europe, where talking about someone else's money is not such a "no no" in a daily life Savior Vivre.
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As a kid, I remember watching a Yugoslavian made movie, from 1970s, where in a small Serbian town, a very rich person...hmmm... he was like a "Don" insulted looking like a pauper man in a tavern about his destitute status.
The pauper was a proud man and made a bet with the Don that he had enough money, from his labor in Germany, to wallpaper the front of his house with 100 Deutch Mark banknotes.
The whole tavern laughed about such a revelation coming from someone looking like a bum, and the Don called his bluff. The whole tavern went to the bum's house where he showed them the money... clustered under the dying mother's bed. It was all there! They counted the money and estimated that there was enough to wallpaper the wall of the Don's house. Oh...I forgot to mention that The Don in return bet his house and ... wife. Lol.

But the son of the dying mother, while at her presence, became merciful and gave all the property back to the Don but on the condition that he would undress and walk home to his wife naked, which he did and told him to remember that all he got, from then on, was a gift from him.

Well, some time later, it turned out that the calculations were wrong and the Don was right, and should have won the bet....

So, what I am saying is, is that trying to look into someone else's wallet is a recepie for unpleasant experiences.

 

You need to learn to tarp better. Send me $500 and I'll send you my course on Tarping For Fuel Economy