With everyone running out and buying trucks, many of them in sad mechanical shape, unbeknownst to the new owners, along with their inexperience, I’m here thinking mid 2019 into 2020 we will see some wild rate fluctuations.
Best bet right now, stay out of debt.
Point of oversaturation in the trucking industry?
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Two winters ago when one out of every three parking spots at any truck stop had flatbeds parked in them for like 4 months, and everybody SCREAMED poor, starving, blah, I still made good money.
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I'm sure you have a figure on what % go belly up. I'll say 35.
There's probably a lot of people that think they are going to get a slightly used truck at a good number.
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Oh, and the EMISSIONS...
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I’ve heard all the big talk over the years.I remember Freightliner selling new trucks for 0 down $1900 mo for five yrs w/ a $20000 buyout along w/ $1500 cash in your pocket for fuel.Two yrs later I bought one of those barely used repo’s. Freightliner had a huge fenced lot in AZ full of them. They opened a factory in the Carolinas to convert them into day cabs. Yellow bought a bunch of them first time ever to buy used. Freightliner shot the whole Truck Manufacturing industry in the foot.Saw things happen I thought I’d never and hope won’t ever see again. I do agree a lot of people are in for a learning experience.Easy come Easy go.
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Our company is just now trading off our 2013 t680s.
God help who ever buys one of these things!!!
They are absolutely junk.
The Cummins motors and emissions are so bad, our “die hard Cummins” owner orders Paccar motors this time.
He says they can’t be any worse!!!
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