A few questions about Sprinter vans

All are built by Mercedes, and there are several options for service. Dealers, Speedco are a few. I have a friend with one and says RV dealers are the most affordable place. From what I hear they are high maintence, nothing cheap on one. I personally beleive you can operate a st8 truck for same or less cost with the ability to make more money.

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I felt the same way about vans also but after talking to few van o/o's there good money in it,yea not as much of a s/t or t/t but there money to be made.There a company paying a $1.00 per mile for vans which isn't bad,vans are good to run as a o/o but to contract a team or solo driver,not so much.I think there lot more vans/sprinters popping up more lately in the last couple of years I actually think within couple of years there going to be lot more freight for vans/sprinters,shippers are starting to see them more now so I think another couple years there going to be more vans fleet owners out there.

 

Big difference in upkeep cost of a van and a sprinter.

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That's the same I've heard too. Three of the guys at the courier company I was working for drive Sprinters and always talked about how high maintenance and expensive to repair they were. One of them talked about dropping back down to a van. The person who moved the most freight did it out of a cargo van anyway.

There's a TON of them around here - Daimler opened up a place and the Sprinters have been taking over the fairgrounds parking fields. Hundreds of them sitting around waiting. FedEx ended up buying a bunch of them not too long ago.

 

And Ford is coming out with one this year.

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