Glider kit vs New truck

I'm telling you that you never did your homework just because you were cheap and never told your insurance company you spent $$$ on your truck it's YOUR falt! Once again I'll tell you my buddy has working show trucks and yes he had a claim it's still behind his shop not 100% sure what year but it's old and has a full aluminum frame it was hit in the front corner and bent the frame the peterbilt said they could not fix it and wouldn't even give a estimate they paid him $6,k less than the truck appraised for last, and insurance was not really much more. No I'm not saying you could go buy a NEW truck dump $50,k in and still find a way to cover it but on older trucks you can.

I also own show a show truck that has a $12,000 paint job ya I could call any insurance company and get insurance but there only going to pay for the factory paint job not what I have receipt or not, because of what it is I'm told it uninsureable until it becomes a classic so until that day comes it will sit back there in the corner until that day comes....I did fire it up did a pro street burnout hand wash it a few weeks back!!

 

Good luck with that.

 

This old truck, new truck argument is just like politics. The two sides will never agree. I like old and will continue to put money in my old truck.

 

I get the old truck thing, slowly fixing what it needs, you can write it off every year, I get that, but, take an old truck you do t know, spend 100k on it? You still have an old truck. Glider makes way more sense, everything g is new.

 

I wouldn't mind old vs new also, if the "old" truck had been in my hands only since it was "new". Big difference between one that you have generally been taking care of and driving right over the years compared to getting something that was never spec'd right to begin with and has been treated like dirt. I hate throwing money at fixing other people's mistakes.

 

Is just putting a old soul in the new modern body, is like plastic surgery on a cougar- sorta. But what if EPA they make laws like in Canada or only built gliders for export. Many gliders are getting sold and big companies like paccar wont like the idea of them not selling new truck with their engines EPA complaint because people don't like them and they have enough money to get politics involve. BTW you can do all you want to all those motor, their nothing Like new Zero Miles everything and gliders are not Zero miles everything. But i do like them, but i rather buy a old truck or of the Dealer.

 

Ive been trying to talk our company into buying glider kits. Our new trucks are always in the shop

 

could be funny to advice bigger companies such as hirschbach or cr england. Schneider already has it and grand island express.

 

Easton trucking (Omaha) and Simons (Farley, IA) trucking in my neck of the woods has almost all glider trucks for their fleets. Schneider is the reason it took as long as it did for me to get mine. They had already put in a 5000 truck glider order a year before, and just before I put in my order, they dropped another 1000 truck glider order on FL. My dealer was wanting to put my order in before I even gave them a deposit just in case Schneider or someone else dropped another mega order for gliders. Still took from Feb 2012 to mid August 2012 to get mine delivered.

 

Just finished an article in Transport Topics about the coming flood of 2012 fleet trucks into the used truck market. Expected prices in the 80k range! In the moving biz, the van lines are hot for O/O's with CA compliant trucks. Otherwise I'd be fully in the Glider camp.