Advice on Selling my 2018 Freightliner box truck.

I am interested in selling my 2018 Freightliner box truck and 2-year-old MC number. Any advice on the best way to go about it.

 

Post it in the Classified section.

 

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You figured out how to get on here so there are a lot of places on the internet to sell anything. I personally sold a 03 W900 on Craigslist many years ago in 1 day. I don’t think anyone would be interested in a mc number I don’t know what good or any value it has.

 

You could be correct about the MC number. I have heard different things about its value from different sources. My experience was that some brokers and shippers would not work with me because my authority had not sufficiently aged. Some wanted to see 6 months, others up to two years. I would think that would give it some value.

 

Brokers seem to be the ones in control especially with one truck or less than 3 truck carriers. I'm wondering if you can lease onto a Carrier in the meantime and in a year run your authority again?

 

I think it’s fairly common. Still have mine. It’s been frozen now as a voluntary revocation. for about a year. Insurance policy cancelled. Trucks parked.

 

That money you can get for that MC just might surprise you. Sold mine for 25k this summer. Depending on your business structure and other details you can get a good ROI from that $300 fee you paid 2 years ago.

 

You’re trying to mislead people with saying you can sell a mc number to someone else to try and trick shippers and brokers into believing someone been in business longer than they have. I personally think you’re on the boarder line of fraud when you say that.A MC number you can sell but the dot number you can’t.So if anyone bought a twenty year old mc it really doesn’t matter since to activate it they would have to get there own dot number then buy insurance to activate that dot number.So the fmcsa is going to show your business started on that day not twenty years ago.

 

It certainly seems like the brokers are in control. My authority is two years old now, so I really don't have trouble getting loads anymore. I'm just ready to get out of the business. Rates are too low, and insurance is too high. I appreciate all the input.