How bad does the tractor have to be that they're willing to sell it for $2900?

Probably needs serious work. Or sometimes it’s the family member of a deceased trucker that’s selling it doesn’t know the real value of one. My mother worked in a diner about 6-7 years ago and she knew a trucker with an ol 90’s Freightliner classic pretty good condition. Anyhow long story short we knew him a long time and he passed away one day about 3 years ago found out his daughter was selling the truck asking for 5k. I was still too early into the trucking game but would we have known I would have bought it in a heartbeat cause this guy absolutely babied his truck. Whoever bought it got a #### good truck for pennies.

 

Might not know what its worth. Could be a little gem. If its any good it won't last long before someone buys it.

 

I'm an expert here. I bought one cheaper than that:

-Every gasket on the engine will leak.
-All air valves will be NFG.
-Air lines will be dry-rotted.
-Tires will be junk.
-Frame will be in rough shape.
-Suspension will be worn out.
-Wiring will be trash.

Unless you plan on sinking 5 figures and a few hundred hours of time into it, I wouldn't even waste the gas in your car to even go and look at it. Only exception being if you're looking for a junker to move trailers around or if you're looking for a restoration project. From my experience, the only difference between a $2500 truck and a $9000 truck is new tires.

 

has to be pretty bad to only be worth 2500. junk yards will pay 5k for about any truck in any condition running or not. as they only have to sell a couple bigger parts to brake even then everything else and the scrap is in there pocket.

pretty much every truck priced under 20k unless its under priced is going to need a lot of work.

here is a truck i paid $7500 for


here it is now after about 300 hours of labor into it so far about about 20k it will probably be double that in $$ and tripple that in hours before its back on the road again.

 

When you get done with it I’ll give you double what you paid for it

 

That's my 13k truck.

 

International with a MaxxForce engine? Run!

Ohh 80's you say? Those Eagles were nice.

 

Amodel nailed it.
Its a parts truck but im no sure there any parts anyone would want. So it could be used as a yard mule for someone else, or if it was some kind of special restoration you would want to do to use as a coffee getter or a show truck if you want to drop that kind of loot

 

lol i bet you would. mabye if take how much i have in it when its done double that then take my hours x 100 an hour and then double that mabye id consider it...lol but i don't plan to ever sell it.