Purchasing used Freightliner need opinions

My truck has 868k on a Freightliner no rear or tranny problems. CRST most likely had their trucks maintained well so I'd go with #2.

 

I work at CRST, stay away from is truck , to many driver student drive it , mantenence is suck there , a lot of band aid.

 

correction.

low mileage more money will trump high miles and less money. engine might be rebuilt, but truck drivetrain. is NOT.

10G more for 400k less. is easily justifiable.

 

How about choice 3? Neither

 

3 years ago a shop charged the company $4500 for ONE wrecking yard rear end installed.

rebuild 2 rear ends AND trans. will more then likey surpass that $15,000

 

Snowwy,i run very short regional.
My truck does very few miles in a year but i garantee you it will be worn out more compared to a truck that does twice the mileage running OTR.
Beware off just looking at mileage in buying a truck,it doesn't tell the whole story.

 

Or option #4 WAIT UNTIL U SAVE UP JUST A TAD BIT MORE TO GET WHAT YOU REALLY WANT....I KNO...I KNO EASIER SAID THEN DONE WHEN YOUR MIND IS SET ON IT ...BUT WHATS THE RUSH?A BIRD IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN 2,N DA BUSH JMO!

 

Sarcasm at it's finest....I hope. I would hate to think of someone being that clueless, sharing the road with me and my family.
Their trucks are hammered, day in and day out. maintenance is for crap, if you can even call it maintenance. There is a reason the big fleets say bye bye early in a trucks life (relatively speaking), it's because they try to do an oil change every 35-50k miles, if they have time, and so on. Overheads? They never run the overhead on those trucks. So long as they last the warranty period, they dont care.
I would NEVER buy an ex fleet truck, not worth the risk. Yeah yeah yeah, there are 1,00,000 drivers that bought ex fleet trucks who are now millionaires, but I know folks personally that got hammered with buying used junk from fleets.
If Number 1 was a port truck, don't buy either one, and keep looking.

Martin

 

I agree with leftlanetruckin these are not for you. We all see trouble ahead for you. Keep on looking