How Many Miles Is Too Many When Buying A Truck?

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  1. Dec 24, 2018 #1
    DevJohnson

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    Just out window shopping for trucks and I’m seeing a lot of Kenworths I like sitting at 30k plus but most of them are around 800k to 1.3m miles on em. I’ll be using it for the oil fields just wondering if that a lot of miles for these kinds of trucks
     
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  3. Dec 24, 2018 #2
    Gdog66223

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    Eh it all depends on who had it before you... a 1 owner truck at 800k miles then sure that's a good truck... but a fleet truck with 200 drivers cycling through it, nope not a good truck.. see if you can find those 1 owner trucks.
     
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    truckdriver31

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    buy the best cheapest truck. run the wheels off and then buy another best cheapest truck. those oil field roads beat a truck up good.
     
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    TruckRunner

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    You can buy my 2019 truck when I'm done with it
     
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    DevJohnson

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    truckdriver31

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    not mexico bound cheap, but no more the 30k i say.
     
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    DevJohnson

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    What I was thinkin
     
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    Gdog66223

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    If you have cash in hand you can buy a good truck for 30k... Just curious, Do you have oilfield experience?
     
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    DevJohnson

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    No I don’t just learning everything before I come in next year. And I’m wanting to save around 20k and have enough for maintenance or least put down that much and pay the rest off in a couple months. Should I stay away from ELD exempt?
     
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    DevJohnson

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    Also won’t be buyin until I know it’s something I wanna stick around for.. I’ll try it out and if I like it I’ll have the money and I’ll lease on, dont see myself havin an authority
     
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