Buying new truck from dealer

Talk to dealers. Get on a wait list. Show them you have the money or financing all ready to go. The last thing they want to deal with when they’re shopping a cancellation around is that you have to talk to the bank and get back to them. They’ll just move down the list of names until someone has the money. For reference, my salesman has a list of almost 40 people just waiting for someone to not want their new truck.

Your other option is pay a deposit and order a truck for 2023 delivery.

 

I quit buying new trucks when you couldn’t pay for it before it was beat to pieces. I can’t even laugh anymore after 25yrs of watching people drag debt from their old truck into their new one and wonder why they’re not making any money.

 

Theres plenty of used trucks at auctions and on Facebook marketplace and Craig’s ,and truck paper .
The ones at the auctions sell for about half of what the exact same Truck costs at a dealership the next week , after a good wash and polish .

Do
You have money saved up or will
You be taking on a huge amount of debt to buy the truck ?

there is no way I’d buy a new truck or any truck made after about 1998

they are un-necessarily complicated and overloaded with computers and sensors that frequently go bad and need expensive repairs .
Even if it’s under warranty , who’s gonna be making the truck payment and insurance payment while it’s sitting for weeks at a dealer waiting for the sensor to arrive from China ?

The truck may be assembled in North America but everything in it came from China. Or the raw materials to manufacture the parts comes from China .

There’s stories on here of people waiting weeks for sensors or paying $4,000 for a sensor on eBay , a sensor that cost $120 before covid .

I’d get a older truck with zero emissions and maybe even older with zero computers .

And don’t take this the wrong way but as the other reply said

if you’re unaware of the non availability of new trucks and trailers , and parts ,
You’re not quite ready to be an owner op

nothing wrong with that . All of us learned how to be a driver and how to be an owner op , by doing it , and usually learning expensive lessons along the way .

I don’t remember what I paid for my first rig I got through a lease purchase program ,
And I bought one used FLD for like $35k and it was a total POS
I sold it in less than a year .
Lesson learned .



the most I ever paid for any other truck was $14k
Ran it a year , spent another $15k rebuilding the engine trans and rears , drove it another five years and sold it .

a lot of them I’d pay $8k for a decent used truck , run it until it blew , and go find another cheap truck . I was doing regional and local stuff so I was never too far from home and my mechanic .

After the origional lease purchase , I never had a Payment or financed a truck
I paid cash for a good used one and drove the wheels off of it . Rinse and repeat .

The idea of a huge truck payment hanging over me every month was just too
Much stress .

 

Go to the dealer, give the salesman a few K under the table and you will have a spot. How the world works. Stop being cheap. If you ain’t got money, stay a company driver.

 

If you live in IL, check out the Appell truck sales in Galva. Whenever I drive by there they got about 200 old trucks in the lot. You could probably buy 3 of the same model/year and piece together a sweet old truck, for half the price of a new one.

 

Keep saving cash for a solid down payment. Now is not the time to buy, new or used. Some where between a year to 18 months, it will be better. Having a nice chunk of cash will be in your favor.