My dad made me an offer today. he has a 2009 KW t660, 450 cummins isx, 3.36 ratio, 230 in. Wheelbase that he will be selling in about six months to upgrade to a t680. He offered it to me for $50,000.
It has been a solid truck so far, no major issues. It just crossed 500,000 miles this week. He has owned this truck since new. When I was still a mechanic I maintained the truck for the first year of its life, oil gets changed every 20,000 and greased every 10,000.
I would be going into this knowing the operating costs down to the penny. The truck gets great fuel mileage, 6.8-7 mpg average.
The only thing that is holding me back is at that point I will only have $15,000 in the bank. That is originally what I wanted as a maintenance/ breakdown fund. But by doing it this early a good portion of that will be eaten up in starting up my business and getting the truck set up for flatbed. I would be leasing on to my current carrier until I could pay cash for a trailer. So what do you all think? Is this worth giving a shot?
Need some insight
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Milktanker, Jan 25, 2013.
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Talking to successful O/O in person... weed out the BS and take what you can use. The internet is a wonderful medium, but there is no body language, no eye contact and a person can pretend to be anyone and claim anything. When your at a truckstop or a customers, you can see how the person conducts himself, how his equipment looks. You won't find bungee cords holding the bumper on a successful operator....
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