Ffirst Truck Purchase Price??

Tell the you want to have a mechanic look at it and go find one and pay them, if they say no walk away, what motor?, gave you seen paperwork on overhaul?, open the oil fill, while running, see how much smoke comes out, what smoke out of exhaust, when was rear end oil changed, tranny, so on.....

 

how much money will you have left over, ask the bank, whats the loan value, offer that much

 

You could have all the documentation in the world on the rebuild, and unless you have a crystal ball, it won’t help. Even if you brought the best mechanic in the area, no one will be able to predict what’s going to happen with major components, or when.
What are the specs on the 357?

 

Drive it over to a Dino and let them run it on dino. and look at the sheet they print/out then carry it and the truck over to mec. and pay them to go over it, then wave all the print outs under salesman nose and offer them the diff. of repairs - what they are asking?

 

nothing lasts in life.

I bought on paper and took possession of a FLD 120 midroof in 1994. She was a 425 cat with a rockwell short 9 and rears for that. A wonderful tractor. One of the best. 41000 dollars. First payment due in 3 weeks, get loaded and rolling fast, yer late already. Problems began when the seller decided that deaf truckers like me do not get to be independant. Ever. So that wrecked that situation in a week. Back to being company driver. HA.. the nerve. Kinda hard to stay away from independant O/O after having a sip of that experience.

Turns out to be pretty smart that it worked out the way it did. No regrets.

Trucks became disposible after that. You were with FFE in 2001 they lease a brand new mint century with 16 miles on the ODO, hand me the keys and say get going. Enjoy.

Thats a throw away tractor, as a team we put 210,000 miles on it in 10 months and she started demanding shop work and repairs once every month for a few days. Thats expensive. Throw that to a solo, get another mint tractor.

The one thing she did, keep her brakes, clutch and other things original that many miles so its not all bad. Pretty impressive. But it's still a disposible tractor. All wore out by year two.