Used Truck prices

maybe i should just sell it with the trailer and retire from trucking since my first truck is apparently a piece of junk and i can't find a job anyway. boy what a waste of money. maybe i'll try selling everything for less than i paid and go back to waiting tables and living with mom and dad

 

No one is saying your truck is junk except you. We don't know the condition of it for sure. However, if you go to Truckpaper.com, you'll find many priced under yours and around the same price as yours. BTW, truckpaper and ebay are the best places to sell trucks. The T2000 is the least desirable out of all of Kenworth's trucks, and has the worst resale value. Since you didn't buy it new, you enjoyed that lower purchase price when you bought it. CARB regulations have a lot of drivers looking for 2008 and newer trucks, and mainstream finance companies aren't eager to finance a truck that old. There are many factors that come into play here. As a private sale, it is also more difficult to get financing. All in all, if you put a low enough price on it, somebody will buy it. If you want retail, you're going to wait awhile. If you can't find a job, that's on you. There's work out here. It may not be what you want, or the home time you want, but you'd be making money.

 

Oh I know, i was just feeling overly negative last night. i'm low on funds after making these purchases and paying for diesel/paint/etc etc and it's got me real stressed out not collecting paychecks and i'm questioning myself and tempted to bail before i get myself in a real rut. i explained in a different thread what made me make this big investment without have a job waiting for me. it's because the guy who was encouraging me to go haul pipe at the company he leases with told me they were always looking to add O/O's and all as soon as i got a tractor/trailer i'd go right to work raking in nice money. well it turned out that the doofus had failed to actually verify that they were still taking on o/o'd and hadn't even mentioned me to anyone. yes i'm also a doofus for not making sure myself that i had a job waiting for me, but he jad me so excited with everything he was telling me that i dove right in and quit my old job. this guy has worked there for years so je's well known and respected there so naturally i just ASSumed he was my ticket in. but when i show up with my truck to get all the application/paperwork out of the way i was shocked to find nobody there had a clue who i was and that they were not hiring for a while

so since i thought that was a sure thing i hadn't researched any other companies (doofus) so now i'm left scrambling to figure out what's what in the pipe hauling biz (since that's what my trailer is set up for) and figure out what my best options are before i run out of money. so yeah i'm stressed. amd what complicates matters further is that i have 22months driving experience instead of the 24 so many of them seem to require. already had the door slammed on my face twice for this reason.



anyway, truckpaper.com is primarily where i have been comparing prices, and i did not come across an '07 T2000 for under 25. maybe 24? but certainly nothing under 20. so 23 seemed reasonable to me. i paid under 20btw



why are T2000 so undesirable? are they known to have lots of problems? or is it mostly just because they look wimpy compared to other KW's?



sorry for long post....

 

It's not the C15, it's the look and feel of a T2000. I'm not saying this about your truck, haven't seen it, but most T2000's that I have come across with mid to high miles are falling apart, sort of like a Century/Columbia or 9200/9400. I have been driving, buying, selling and rebuilding trucks for the past 16 years and that is my experience with them as well as many other drivers and O/O's opinions. As I started my post earlier, please don't take any offense as I'm not talking about your truck just T2000's in general. There's exceptions to every rule.

 

T2000's typically have a lot of door issues as the mileage gets up there. Most fleets went back to the T600/660 around 2006. If you do a detailed search on truck paper with 2007 T2000, sort by price, you'll see what I mean. Your biggest thing is finding a job right now. This is the slow season, so a lot of carriers don't bring trucks on right now. You have a lot to learn about this industry, and you're going to pay cash for that education. Get rolling, make some cash then reevaluate . I would be on your "friend"to really help get you on over there as well. If you do sell, throw the tuck and trailer together on eBay as a package deal.