Age old question: New truck vs used truck?

Does the warranty cover the income you can't make while the truck is in the shop, and this goes for both new and old. If you're going for something with all the emmissions headaches just buy new. You can spend as much time in the shop for emmissions issues on newer stuff as an engine overhaul for something older from what I've heard.

 

Company driver - I want new , brand new.
If I own my own truck I want old , old enough to easily pay cash for. I don't borrow money so money isn't an issue for me. The more $$$ money is not an issue for you the better your life will be.

 

Additional Maintenance Old truck would need over New truck:
0 vs 30,000 (Big ticket items should last to a million miles at least, I think I might be overestimating this amount for old truck) Where did you figure 0 for additional maintenance on new tuck? Would figure at least 10 cents a mile or maybe closer to 15.

 

the number that matters to me is how much money is going out if the truck sits, at home or at a shop, or when the economy isnt that great

 

Used trucks are a hit or miss.. I spend 19k last year and 20k the year before on repairs, I have a USED emission truck.. Overall a good truck that has never left me stranded but even small stuff is expensive on trucks.. I’ve ran the math with the $1200 payment I have on the current truck and with what I spend in repairs I could be driving a new one.. New ones still break but I wouldn’t be footing the bill for the first 4-5 years depending on what factory extended warranty you get.. New one still cost money on maintenance but maintenance is peanuts compared to repairs.. just my figuring on my situation and this only applies to a used EMISSION trucks.. with a pre emission motor I could just about rebuild the engine every year with what I spend on keeping emission truck rolling! Go figure

 

Why do you think Mega carriers only keep theirs around 3 years... because of all the BS with emissions and repairs. That is why you buy new and trade it in every 3 years. If you buy used at 700,000 miles then you are buying someone elses problems.

 

If given the choice between new or old, I personally would go not only old but old enough to be pre emissions. This would not work for everybody.

In 99 I bought a 97 with 211,000 miles on it, it had no major expenses spent on it until I had it inframed at 960,000, beyond a clutch tires, water pump, one set of brakes and an alternator. It had been paid off for a couple of years by then.
In 2001 I bought a 99 with a fresh inframe and transmission, I the only major expense before it was paid off .
was an ecm. I did have to do a head gasket, a new tranny and a front spindle in the next couple of years.
I have a 96 with a cat that dropped a valve before it was paid off. It only had 2 payments left, and I do most of my own work, so I paid it off and drove one of the others while I did a head job on it. It now has over a milion and still has the same clutch, trans, and rears that it did when I bought it, and they have not been touched, nor do they need to be. It was the oldest with the most miles of any that I have bought, other than some dirt or log trucks, and every major component had been replaced by 500,000 miles.
I have never had nor want a truck that requires 30,000 a year maintenence on it.

I do not think a guy could do this or even think about having that kind of lick with any truck after the emissions got crazy, so I will just stay with my older trucks.
I can't run Cali, oh shucks, that just burns my biscuit.
I can't lease on to a lot of companies, again, big deal.
I know some of you can't live with those restrictions though.