What do ya'll think about buying a another truck right now?

Repairs are more then truck payments.
But depends on if you run a logging device or not. Repairs could be more frequent.

And where to buy. I'm noticing prices everywhere for the same model and miles.

You can find lower miles for the same year. Look for the bang for the buck. I wouldn't pay $50g for a truck with 500k if there's a same truck with 400k.

But then. I also wouldn't pay $100g + for a 20 or 30 year old truck when I can buy a 3 year old truck. Add a wet kit and be in the same price. With 1/10 the miles.

It might just be cheaper to rebuild the motor. You already know what you got.

 

What does your OA say?

Had a dyno done lately?

 

Think this year will be the worst yet since the down turn. If you can make it I would have no problem getting a newer truck with the prices now.

 

Oil analysis.
Or your “Original Angel” if you watched the Netflix series.

 

Avoid the paccars, the expensive emissions repairs start at around 500k unless you can get one with full and recent paperwork showing the def system was just overhauled esentially. The motors are good the stuff attached to them....less so. The rest is dealers choice.

Also its good to have a dyno run at least once every 6 months to a year. Its not THAT expensive. If everything comes back clean and good just run it. Tbh a good platinium or whatever the detroit equivlent is could get you another 500k miles easy.

Biggest worrys would be transmission, wireing harness, diffs and emissions system. Will still be a good bit cheaper then the payments on new. Personally id have an OA done on the diffs and transmission and if they come back good then have the steering rack rebuilt, have all the brakes redone, a rebuild, a new clutch and flywheel, maybe a new 5th wheel plate if yours is badly worn and the def system dropped and cleaned.

Do that and a lot of them cascadias are known to hit 1.5-2 million before the repairs get out of control.

That said newer is also viable and woth prices going way down has strong hard arguments as being smarter. But keep in mind a LOT and i do mean A LOT of used trucks on the market right now are going to be from failed O/Os or megas who stopped doing maintaince beyond absolutely nessesary repairs before they traded them in. Or did none at all before the truck got taken back. And its going to get worse going into the downturn. So there IS a good chance you will be buying someone elses issue.

if you keep your paid off truck and dump 40-70k into refreshing it depending on how deep into the rabbit hole you wanna go. By the time rates come back up and your truck hits critical you should have enough saved up to buy new outright.

But thats just MY opinion

 

Pete's and KW's come with a higher sticker and substandard motors.

Detroit is a better powertrain option. I'm not including DD15's. Don't get one of those. Get a DD13 at 450 HP.

Get a 2020 DD13 Cascadia 126 with 400 or 450 HP and a DT12. Adapt it to suit your needs.

Probably about 65K out the door for a full sleeper truck.

Doggett Freightliner has plenty of used Maverick freightliners available with a lot of the bells and whistles still under factory warranty on the driveline.