Questions for my first truck (Volvo)

Amen

 

Just went thru the whole thread. Couple of things.
1) $700 for insurance that seems awful high. I have a 2014 and my insurance is.
$50 bob tail, $175 comprehensive $173 workers comp (not occ real wc)
$398 a month and I'm getting ready to lower my stated value from $51k to 40k to lower the bill.
2) Volvo has a bad rap about nobody but Volvo can work on them. Simple things like tires, pm, breaks, shocks,airbags, electric shorts. You or most anybody can do that.
For other things remember in Europe Volvo is like freightliner here. So if you look around and find European owned shops ( ie polish ,Bosnian russian, etc..usually the name ends in ski) they can usually do just about everything. And most definitely spend the $500 and buy the diagonistc,/ forced regen tool.

 

So rebuilt from weller no more than 7500 with one year warranty u could go with Volvo shortie and cylinder housing no rear section around 7000 with Volvo warranty another 1500 tops for r and r let’s say 9k but no more not like it used to be.

 

It is a big country, what is the chance of breaking down close to that one shop, most shops will not touch a volvo, much less a deleted volvo. lol

It is good to see that rebuilt units have started showing up, it was just a matter of time.

 

Many time insurance costs are dependant on your garage address among many other things, so it all depends. I have to pay that much any more on just my log truck that is on a dirt logging road 3/4 of the time. lol
Workmans comp depends on the state, I would dearly love to get it at your price, it is one of my pet peeves.

 

I actually had a truck that went down in flagstaff I was able to pull a reman from weller la warehouse delivered next day all calibrated and ready to go just put on Tru and all good

 

Because of reman Volvo directly I sanctuary cheaper than welller on some of the pets that they reman themselves.

 

Just curious how logging pays up in the Frontier?

 

I don't remember a volvo dealer at Flag, so must have been an independent shop, many for some reason will no work on a volvo, that probably depends on what the problem is. I know the other dealers here will not even look at one.
A few yeas back, before we had a dealer, a guy came up in one hauling nursery stock, which is a short season. He lost a turbo, and had to have one shipped up from somewhere. He leased a truck from a friend of mine and made two trips from seattle in it waiting on the turbo. lol

 

Here in the interior, it sucks. There is just one mill for a buyer, and they do not pay much for logs. I just treat it as a hobby because I like it, but many sites I can actually gross more money driving somebody elses truck a day, hauling gravel or freight. It doesn't make sense to have a log tuck here, but I like it and have a saw mill I like to play with. There is not much better than sunrise in the mountains when the world is white. lol

My logger has a big crew on a remote job down on he coast, the logs go to china and it does pay decent there. I barged my truck in there and it is an easy basically flat job, gavel roads, never get over 25 of 30 mph, and little loads, he furnished fuel and oil, plus room and board., and I could easily do 800 a day, 7 days a week. I was suppose to have my truck there for three years, which would have done me in, but it blew up and had to barge it back out in a month, he had to throw some ragged trucks together till he could have some new ones built.
The hands at either place he pays in the 25 to 30 an hour range, all pretty much mechanical logging.