Buying my 1st truck, looking for opinions!

Go to Lone Mountain and get yourself a new truck. PM me if you have any questions or need a referral.

 

I hear ya and reefer customers can be terrible at times but you're just starting out in this business you lack capital and you lack experience. If you work hard it will only take the next several years for to you establish yourself during which you're going to be putting up garbage you don't like no matter where you go it will just be different garbage in a different truck.

You think you need another month and a 1/2 off to get though the next 6 months and complete your first two years????? WFT is wrong with you, you should be working harder now more than ever. You want to start a business and you're at square one you should be taking zero EDIT time off until you're capitalized. Suck it up buttercup it becuase if you don't and you go to new carrier and finance a high mileage truck under capitalized you will fail especially with your attitude, you need a month and 1/2 off to recover from a delay at a Tyson plant lol.

If you think the first emissions trucks are 2009's you may have some more research to do.

 

How much cash do you have for a down payment? I think you need to talk to banks to see if you can get financing for what you want. Some have an age limit on the vechicle , not all.



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My advice to any one who has $60,000 cash reserves is to hang onto the Job that allowed you to save $60,000 in the first place!!! So many variables, but any Company should be started with the least amount of risk or as they say exposure. Some of the #s I hear like paying cash for a new Truck in order to net a paycheck for half that amount in first year are not sound business practices. Exceptions can be argued all day long but go tell that plan to a Succesful business Owner besides Trucking and they will be amused

 

Ok but you didn't even read the warranty for the lease you've already signed. You thought you had no real maintenance risk and complete warranty coverage until I explained that you weren't covered on the after treatment system and a one box is $12,000 should it fail. Then later I saw you post that you had no warranty coverage whatsoever which you do just not on the after treatment system so I think you misunderstood. You need to learn to understand the business arrangements you enter better.

You've heard things about International so you said you'd be nervous about buying one but International is just a truck body. In reality probably you heard bad things about Navistar and the International you mentioned has an ISX.

You think truck emissions began in 2009. You need to learn to understand the equipment better you're planning on basing your livelyhood on this equipment.

When you were previously injured on the job you weren't aware that you could file a claim with your occupational accident coverage until someone told you to do so. Again you need have a better understanding of business aragments you enter.

You don't sound like someone who's prepared for what they're about to get themselves into. You don't sound like you possess an unusually high level of motivation and drive to pull yourself out of the rough spots. You don't have the knowledge of the equipment, you sign things that you don't understand, you don't have much experience, and you're under capitalized. With all of those things working against you falure is very likely. If you can't pay cash for a truck I'd suggest that you wait until you can you need to lower your overhead to make up for your weaknesses. I'd suggest you get prepared before you get eaten alive.

 

See if you can get financing. If you can't get a 15k truck with an s60. An s60 is 10k for an inframe sans head. Or just go tanks or apply to UPS.

 

Just keep asking questions and taking advice from known honest folks based on their own experiences, not what could happen but what usually happens on average.Despite how we all think of ourselves as Unique in reality most are average working at average jobs. That goes for most folks in any walk of life. Anything can and sometimes does happen. Usually just average circumstances apply. Almost 5 million Truckers out here. I’m sure You can find the right fit for your needs.What everyone’s saying is you don’t want to end up like so many I hear say yeah back when I was an O/O blah blah blah I had no choice but to give up.They Usually had nothing to lose yet lost even more. Why bother? If not ready to sacrifice for a goal it’s not a worthy goal. Of coarse you can become an O/O anyone can. Anyone can fail, Sometimes while doing all the right things and still fail. The hard part is being honest with yourself about who’s fault it is either way. Otherwise you’ll be like so many out there blaming everyone else ex- wives you name it everyone but themselves. Never making an mprovement or learning from mistakes.Even when others do you wrong it’s your own fault for letting it happen. They were only doing what they do.

 

I dont claim to be right, but I'm an O/O with an older pre emissions truck. Mine is an 07 just been deleted. The older trucks will nickel and dime you to death is what everyone says, but my monthly cost for repair and everything is still a ways cheaper than a new truck payment. Also you can actually work on them when they do break down. It dont take a genius to do the simple maintanance things that will save you money. The new trucks are very expensive and you hope they wont break down because if they do it costs a fortune to fix them. I would try for a Pete 379. They look good, you'll enjoy driving it far more than a slope nosed def shorter, and their value is increasing instead of depreciating

 

Def snorter I meant