Buying a used glider

The company I work for is slowly getting rid of our Western Star gliders with Factory rebuilt Detroit’s with 350,000 on them and the truck.

Replacing them with new Cascadias . they believe they have the emissions worked out

Between the aerodynamics and new EPUs they have , the fuel savings are large enough to take the risk on them work claims.

Their buying automatics Also

 

Try $19,000 for the one box on a 2012 cascadia I had to do a delete to stay in business 2 years later haven't had any problems

 

Prices on most of them are ridiculous right now if you ask me. Even for a truck with 500k miles on it. They are close to getting into the nickel and dime stage soon.

 

Ya but the nickel and diming at least you can keep your head above water. The thousand and ten thousand dollar bills are what sink you to the bottom

 

Glider

 

Perhaps the owner selling the glider makes so much profit that he'd rather buy new gliders and take advantage of depreciation again.

 

Seeing as they are asking %80 to %90 of the original purchase price at 500k miles. Seems like good business to me?

 

That's where I am now! Decisions to be made in 6 months

 

I'm on my second glider. Traded the old one for a new one. Added an APU and 24.5s to the new one and everything is peachy. Got it from Harrison Truck Centers, up in Iowa and both trucks have been excellently put together (not that Fitzgerald junk).
Had the A/C compressor go out after 11,000 miles but it was replaced under warranty, no fuss or bother and not a bit of trouble since.

 

I totally agree with that. The point I was making is many of the used ones I see are ridiculously high priced for a 500k mile truck and your just better off ordering a new glider if you can swing it.