Desperate fleets are turning to salvage yards looking for trucks and parts.

interesting, to say the least.

 

That’s not a bad idea. A friend of mine parents own a salvage yard and I was having him look for dry van trailers.

 

People are also buying older tractors that are sitting in peoples yards. Maybe get one for $5G or less because the people don't know what its really worth and just happy to get rid of it.
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I know a guy that bought a 53' dry van that he saw in a farm/ranch auction magazine. Looked at it and the guy said he can have it for $1700.00
He aired the tires and took it home. Filthy and moldy inside and out. When he cleaned it, it looks almost new. He uses it for OTR work.
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Look at farm & ranch auctions and maybe find trailers and tractors for good deals.
Same guy also bought a livestock trailer that needed repair, so instead of repairing it, he took apart and sold it for scrap. Lots of aluminum in that trailer Made a big profit on that one.

 

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This will be known as ..."The Circle of Life" at Swift ..
Buy it new Driver wrecks it 2 weeks later
Buy back a the Salvage Yard.. fix it
2 days later driver wrecks it again .
Buy it back again
Wreck it again etc etc etc
1 truck + 10 drivers + 2 years = 80k miles & 9 buy backs

 

West Can up here used to have hundreds of Louisvilles. They did a lot of industrial/ice road fuel hauls and bent up a bunch of them in the process. They built a lot of trucks out of parts from crash victims.

 

@MonetaryWage - I remember you posting about buying a cheap truck. Maybe this thread will help.

 

Always wanted a ltl ford Kinda hard to find around central Il
Do you know anything about the purple one

 

Lol junk yards have always been 1 of my first places to look. Guess I was ahead of the times