Trucks are selling cheap now

Are you referring to Canadian currency ?

 

Stingers i guess

 

I know this last quarter was the lowest number of Class 8 trucks sold in a very long time. It's been declining for awhile and keeps going down. The sign of a good economy is lots of freight being moved by truck and train. When trucks aren't being replaced, it means the freight isn't as good, which means the economy stinks. Anyone who believes we are okay believes a fairy tale.

 

in my neck of the woods. that aint cheap!

 

Hmm,...I deliver new units for a living and I'm busy as hell right now. Granted the Freightliner plant in Mexico is slow, but I figure they're re-tooling. I've been running non-stop for ten weeks now, and dispatch has not once asked me if I want to go home or need time off. Usually they will hint at it if there's nothing going on for a few days.

Also, they tell me they are hiring again, so there must be new orders on the horizon somewhere.

I deliver a mixture of Class 8's and straights, so maybe I'm just not noticing a slowdown, but still...

 

Any trucks post emissions sucks....all that re-gen crap, fricking EGR, DEF BLAH BLAH BLAH! New trucks sucks!

 

Hamburger71, my understanding is that they layed off a ton of people in NC as well as Mexico a couple of months back. I've got a friend that retired in NC that used to deliver FreightShakers to. He kind of keeps his hand on the pulse!
Don't get me wrong, they are still getting orders, however, as I pointed out, the mega bottom feeders are turning trucks in!

 

i was gonna say...I just saw a long-nose Pete for 23,500 a week or so ago. Same age group too. Those prices must be in Loonies.

 

I was just going off of what the official reports and numbers say.