Mid 90’s Kenworth w900L??

I had a 94 w900L 5EK and 15 double over 3:90 rears best truck I’ve ever owned. Ride is a little rough and they’re heavy. I ran end dump at the time, why I let it go. Have regretted it ever since but they don’t build them like that anymore. Bough from original owner and didn’t have any rust and the interior was like new. I think they all started going down hill after midnight 2000s. Old trucks just work.

 

Buying an old Truck isn’t any different than buying a 4-5 yr old Truck. An old one that’s been maintained can be better. Doesn’t have to be totally rebuilt, just kept up on maintenance. I just looked through the Truck Paper. Lots of Trucks for sale. A lot from small companies. Saw a couple deals I’d consider. ‘04 Coronado w/ 14L 515, 513k miles for $49,000 Not bad at all. also an ‘04 Classic 84”bunk w/ 12.7
58k on overhaul,w/ paperwork, for $39,000. I could make a living with either, if starting from scratch, with 0 money dn. Those are the only 2 Trucks I would consider. There’s a beautiful ‘99. W9 with a 12.7 for $76500. It’s pretty, but not that pretty. The rest of the paper is full of outrageously high prices on everything. No way these prices will hold up very long. No way. I’d say Truck prices have already slid 25%. Lot of wishful thinking on prices. To start out now, and paying those high prices is a financial disaster in the making. The prices on some are downright rediculous. I can’t believe anyone could be that stupid. Real prices are high enough, surely it will cause rates to increase, when thing get closer to normal. Right now it’s all out of whack.

 

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20 year old trucks have quirks. As an owner we live with what isn’t a deal to us and fix what is. Drivers and quirks don’t match simple as that. A driver is hard on a truck, let the A/C quit and you don’t put him in a room and get it fixed ASAP and see what happens. As far as 7 months it’s still too early to tell, I am not for or against the guy making it but it’s been an easy market the storm lays ahead. E-log exempt how long till a driver gets pissed off and turns him in to the feds for “forcing” him to fix his book. Now I’m not implying the OP would do that in the least. But we all know a driver will take it upon himself to do so then flip it on the company when he doesn’t get his way. Plain and simple so many recipes for disaster right here it ain’t funny.

 

you assume too much, he may be making the money gross but not paying the taxes or a few other things, if he did 2 years with those numbers, then alright but 7 months is nothing, the market can turn in him still.

 

OK, change those years to 96 and 06 and run the analysis.

 

I moved up here from west Texas. Just because the scales are closed doesn't mean the man won't come out of the shed in Big Spring and hit randoms on I-20. I saw many a co-worker get hit and put OOS by them, mostly for logs.

 

This comment reminded me of my dad
He was always a Cadillac and Lincoln guy and one time he sold a 1975 El Dorado
Beautiful car but the funny part was the people who came out and bought it didn’t ask anything about the car other than does the AM/FM work

Didn’t even start or test drive it and I think they shipped it home