Buying a new Cascadia

Where did you buy yours? How much, how many miles? Get a loan or pay cash? Whats the spec? Did you have tests done on it before you bought it?

 

Nope. When you say you had gone through by a mechanic what exactly to the mechanic do? Did they pull in oil sample and do a Dino? Did you get a rig dig? Maintenance records? Who owned it before you did? How much were you able to find out about the truck and its history from Arrow? Still really low miles. I have been looking at used trucks online and have yet to see one below 300,000.

 

Nope. Our situations it is in flux. We’re trying to figure out if we really want to do this for three more years which is what it would take to wear out a new Cascadia. But then if you buy used you need to check the thing out in person and have a mechanic look at it which is really hard to do when you’re running around the country logging 5 to 6000 miles a week. It’s not like dispatch is going to say OK will send you to Phoenix to check out a used truck if they’ve got something to run in the other way that’s going to make the money. We’re thinking we need to take time off and go home and set everything up and go look at trucks but if we do that it would make it hard to qualify for a loan so it’s sort of a catch 22. I’m exhausted most of the time or unconscious during business hours so that also makes things difficult. I have set a deadline for my two year anniversary with my company. If we don’t have our own truck by then we’re going to quit until we do have one. That way we can collect our vacation pay which will be about $5000 between the two of us.