Need advice!!!!

do a rig dig report on the truck before you buy it

 

Cash is king right now, and with all the shutdowns there will be bargains everywhere. Just be careful as some that are cash poor right now aren't able to service their trucks as they should be. I would look at a major carrier that has trucks governed to 64 or so. Chances are the trucks are resonably serviced, but as the guy posted, do a background. I assume that company does an oil analysis.

 

With your budget buy a truck with 99 Detroit for $20k and put another $20k in it right after to fix everything you can.
Or put $40k as a down payment on a new truck.
Don't buy a 2013 or something like that.

 

Doin' it bass ackwards. Get the hauling account 1st, then a truck. Probably the worst time in history to become an O/O, but I didn't listen. If you simply must, I'd go with a KW.

 

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I started with a 2006 Century. Bought it for 11k and have spent 25k upgrading and rebuilding things over time. 14.0 Detroit in it. Parts are cheap, everything’s pretty easy to work on, it’s not a pretty truck, but it makes money week after week. If you come across a 12.7 Detroit just verify if bull gear has been swapped or not (with paperwork). Only downsides with the truck are cabinets and plastics do shake with a older one, and it’s a plain Jane fleet truck. Upside, with a Detroit it’s a work horse if you drop some money into rebuilding major components to the truck.

I always suggest 2007 freightliner or older to friends going O/O until you can buy a kw or Pete cash and rebuild all major components cash

 

It's hard to find good cheap truck today. Basically trucks from 2002-2014 are all first generation of emissions and they had lots of different changes to fix things. Today Freightliner has trouble with the $12,000 One Box emissions box going bad around 600,000 miles and something about seals on engine oil pickup go bad from heat I think. That's easy fix I guess. Cummins ISX had many years of top engine cams going bad from not getting enough oil and all the engine soot. The fuel pumps would go bad and take out the all kinds of stuff. Because some of the first ISX had ceramic fuel pump parts.

Maybe like others said get older pre emissions engine if you can still find them