I had a construction business and have 70K to spend on a truck.

roundhouse · Oct 20, 2021

ProfessionalNoticer said: ↑

You're joking, right? It takes a little more than hammers and U-Haul trailers to build bridges, sky scrapers and roads.
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Pretty sure he’s talking about residential construction .

Residential usually involves old pickups , a couple of old cargo trailers and a van load of illegal immigrants .

Siinman · Oct 20, 2021

roundhouse said: ↑

Pretty sure he’s talking about residential construction .

Residential usually involves old pickups , a couple of old cargo trailers and a van load of illegal immigrants .
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That sounds like land scape job. Ha ha

AFLogistics · Oct 20, 2021

roundhouse said: ↑

As mentioned . If they don’t have the receipts , the repairs and overhauls and rebuilds DID NOT HAPPEN .

Buying a emission truck with 400k right now is asking for trouble .

there’s threads in here of people having their truck in the shop for WEEKS and weeks waiting on a $75 sensor .
That isn’t available and won’t be available for months .

guess who is still
Stuck making the payment on that truck and who is not generating $5k of gross revenue every week ?

and for the older truck , that’s not a $70k truck , it’s a $20k truck , unless they have receipts for a new or rebuilt engine , rebuilt trans and rebuilt drive axles.

There’s lots of threads on here and plenty on YouTube of what to look for on a used truck .

Once you narrow it down and pick one , you’re gonna need to spend money on a dyno test , a rig dig report, a ECM dump , and having a competent
Mechanic go over the truck with a microscope , which should include pulling the valve cover to look at the camshaft .

some engines eat camshafts , and the ONLY way to check it is pull the rocker cover and look.

if you can stay out of commiefornia , I’d buy an older truck with no emissions ,

Personally , if I was getting back into trucking , I’d buy a truck with zero computers on it .
I’d get a mechanical injected big cam
Cummins or a 3406-B cat , with a 13 or 18 speed trans . Have everything rebuilt and put it on the road locally for a few
Weeks to work out the bugs and then hit the road .

This website can be configured to show the auction history , so you can see what trucks sold for

https://www.auctiontime.com/listing...tOrder=547&scf=False&LiftGate=All&OAuctions=1

https://www.auctiontime.com/listings/trucks/auctions/online/203214649/1998-kenworth-t800
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Thank you a lot of great feed back.

AFLogistics · Oct 20, 2021

roundhouse said: ↑

Pretty sure he’s talking about residential construction .

Residential usually involves old pickups , a couple of old cargo trailers and a van load of illegal immigrants .
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No I'm talking full grade commercial construction actually.

AFLogistics · Oct 20, 2021

Siinman said: ↑

Here in 3-4 months I will sell you my truck. 2014 Volvo 670 with D13. Motor was rebuilt and will have about 1 Year left on Platinum Warranty. Have replaced just about everything in the DPF side and just cleaned the DPF filter.
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I need it now.

dngrous_dime · Oct 20, 2021

AFLogistics said: ↑

I need it now.
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That attitude is a quick route to bankruptcy. Trucks are tools, don't get emotional or desperate. Make a sound financial decision on what you really NEED, not what you "want".

AFLogistics · Oct 20, 2021

Happily Retired said: ↑

Good heavens, pal, I don't think so. Construction, what, you invest in a hammer and a ladder, an old truck, that sits, and some old Uhaul trailer? Come on, a careless truck driver can kill people, shop rates of $150/hr+, equipment and freight in the 100's of thousands of dollars, the ever present "pile up", that seems to be the norm now, sorry, construction workers are generally a tame bunch that travel from job to job and live out of hotels, can't pee in a jar, and don't have a lot of business sense. To compare a construction worker to an O/O just isn't right. I've done both and truck drivers are FAR more cut throat with a lot more to lose, or at least they used to be.
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That is how I know you don't know what you're talking about. You have something uncomfortable in the wrong place, maybe you sat on something now that you're "happily retired". I'd appreciate it if you posted useful things here. I CAN HAPPILY <-keyword inform you seem to talk about the dangers in a truck accident I just want to remind you that the ones who have a federal agency "OSHA" on simply not dying is the construction world. Please HAPPILY <---- keyword inform yourself instead of just HAPPILY <---- keyword troll. Also without construction and roads I don't know how you are happily retired since you used all the roads that someone had to build for you to drive on. (Last reply this thread isn't about construction.)

Concrete Pump = 2 million or 250/hr plus yardage.
An excavator cost that of a new 389 (we need about 6 of them)
Rollers
Bull Dozers
Crane cost well over 2 million.
Insurance is 50k+

ready2truck · Oct 20, 2021

AFLogistics said: ↑

That is how I know you don't know what you're talking about. You have something uncomfortable in the wrong place, maybe you sat on something now that you're "happily retired". I'd appreciate it if you posted useful things here. I CAN HAPPILY <-keyword inform you seem to talk about the dangers in a truck accident I just want to remind you that the ones who have a federal agency "OSHA" on simply not dying is the construction world. Please HAPPILY <---- keyword inform yourself instead of just HAPPILY <---- keyword troll. Also without construction and roads I don't know how you are happily retired since you used all the roads that someone had to build for you to drive on. (Last reply this thread isn't about construction.)

Concrete Pump = 2 million or 250/hr plus yardage.
An excavator cost that of a new 389 (we need about 6 of them)
Rollers
Bull Dozers
Crane cost well over 2 million.
Insurance is 50k+ View attachment 387418 View attachment 387419 View attachment 387419
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To be fair you sound just as clueless about the trucking industry. Never heard of fmcsa? First year single owner op will pay 30k for insurance if you're lucky. Let's be honest you didn't buy any of that equipment you rented it.

Ridgeline · Oct 20, 2021

ready2truck said: ↑

To be fair you sound just as clueless about the trucking industry. Never heard of fmcsa? First year single owner op will pay 30k for insurance if you're lucky. Let's be honest you didn't buy any of that equipment you rented it.
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I agree, I dealt with osha at another business and they have nothing on fmcsa.

ready2truck · Oct 20, 2021

Ridgeline said: ↑

I agree, I dealt with osha at another business and they have nothing on fmcsa.
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Truck companies have to deal with OSHA and fmcsa. OSHA isn't just for construction companies, OSHA is for evey company that isn't strictly office work.
Fmcsa is only for the truck industry.

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