Finding value of 96 w900?

Google whole sale value. That's all an insurance company will ever shell out for an older truck. For a w9 i figure you are looking at 12 to 15k. Or what value you have it insured at, which ever is lesser.

Take the money, keep the truck put a used sleeper on it and call it a day.

 

Look for similar truck for sale on truckpaper.com may give an idea. There is also a NADA book on truck values like the ones for cars.

 

Call a company that does direct loans on commercial vehicles. They will tell you exactly how to evaluate the value of it, I've used that method when I started buying used trucks.

ALSO this is one of these times when you all need to review your insurance and stop being cheap. We have riders on the equipment and have a stated payout value for the truck if it is totalled, it costs more but crap if you are making $75k per truck, then it isn't bad.

Two other things that comes to mind, if they total it out, find out what they can do on a compromise to repairing it to save them money (take that approach if you can). which leads me to the second thing, if it doesn't have frame damage (which it don't look like it), sleepers are all over the place and not hard to put on. I just bought one to sell to a guy who wants to put it on his new Dodge pickup for hotshot work, I paid $300 for it and selling it to him for a few more bucks for getting it to him - it is off a 2000 Pete, so if you get a couple grand for repairs opposed to $7 to 8 grand or what ever, just get a sleeper and put it on.

 

Last April a four wheeler wrecked the 96 Pete of a fellow I work with. I believe the insurance company valued it at 24k. We were all shocked. My guess without seeing all the damage they will total your truck. Depending on what you personally know about your truck you may want to see what it brings for salvage and buy it back and repair it. That will all take time though. The main structure of the sleeper appears to be mostly ok. You can put on new panels, a corner post, a couple of uprights, a door and then paint it. Good luck.

 

I've seen A Lot worse damaged trucks than yours going down the freeway. Pretty amazing what guys won't repair when it's needed. But trucking is a tough biz. Ya if they total it out, since its a solid 'hood' truck - not a plastic new style aero truck - I'd probably buy it back, fix it to use later (or build a show truck), or sell. Buy another one like the cabover you mentioned to keep rolling. Good luck to you.