Buying my first truck, need help choosing 1of these 3 trucks

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I want to apologize up front for raining on your parade. But I strongly recommend you wait. Freight is slow, and rates are cheap. There is a lot of equipment for sale because people are going belly up. Now is a REALLY bad time to go out in your own.

 

Both rigs look good in the photo, but this does not unfortunately tell you how mechanically sound they are. It would pay to do a proper check on the engine, gear box, and diff. Buying a pre-owned unit will always come with that risk, what kind of deal are they offering? will the purchase come with any warranty? Which is always a good sign if the dealer assuming it's not a private sale is willing to offer some kind of limited warranty. Anyway, wish you all the best mate with your new O/O quest, more miles and bigger pay checks.

 

This. Also a LOT of equipment that is for sale is likely ill cared for for the above reasons or was on the way out the door since the lease end was coming up so only got the bare minimum at best. Many a mega or even O/O who will stop maintaining a truck at the 400-450K mark since they dump them around 500k. Or worse the truck was repoed and NONE of the maintaince has been done in a long long time.

Add on someone going belly up is almost guaranteed to have let maintaince slide as things got worse and worse before they decided to sell.... Well its really not hard to throw a cheap detail at a truck and make a pile of garbage look nice only for the first time you go out to give you the christmas tree of sadness on the dash.

Throw on the low volume, bad rate, elections coming up (there is near always a freight slump afterwards) and your playing russian roulette with a full automatic rocket launcher to your face. Sure there is a non-zero chance of things going well. There always is and its a better chance then average since you wont owe anything....But there is also a non-zero chance of winning the lottery as well.

Edit: also yes people always say its a bad time because there arent great times to enter. Just less awful. Right now actully IS a bad time. Unless you have contracts already set up, there is a very good chance of going bankrupt right now since you have companys quite literally cutting each others throats on rates over the non locked on contracts.