Buying used truck from large fleet?

No problem.

 

The reason they rotate the trucks at specific miles is not about what happens after 500k, it is all about deprecation and accounting.

A lot of you guys are clueless to how they work, assuming that the same reasoning used in a single or two truck operation is the same with large fleets.

Not a thing wrong with buying a truck from a large fleet. Do the Due Diligence like your supposed to do and be very picky. There are still more trucks trying to find owners than there is owners trying to find trucks.

 

Megas don't buy trucks from the manufacturer, they lease them on a 3-4 year cycle. By the time they're into the 3rd year, they're already ordering new ones for the next cycle and so on.

The trucks that have excessive lease miles on them, the Megas keep them and sell them themselves or offer them to their drivers as a Lease/Buyout truck.

Frankly I would stay away from a Mega company truck, most have been in accidents with extensive damage and repaired, most have had to be quarantined so a biohazard company could clean out all the piss bottles, bedbugs and roaches that were inside.

Also Mega company drivers love to idle all day and night 24/7.

Also most Megas do not give you service records with the truck.

 

Like others have suggested, going to a equipment auction is a good choice.

My friend bought a 2013 Volvo 780 with 700k miles for 25k at a auction. It wasn't perfect, needed minor things and tires, but the same truck at a dealer was about $45k.

He's into now it for about 30k, but he still saved a ton of money vs. buying from a dealer.

With any truck purchase, go over it with a fine tooth comb, if possible try to get a dyno and oil analysis test done.

If it's a private party, ask for maintenance records. A common selling point in alot of ads is they say the engine has has a inframe, but when you ask them for the paperwork, they tell you they lost it, or the previous owner didn't give it to them.

Heed to the old saying; Let the Buyer Beware.

 

Not trying to be a pessimist but seems that A LOT of things ( $ ) could go wrong if you NEED to buy a truck within one week .

 

Opportunity costs.

Not all megas lease, the commercial leases don't have mileage limits on them and those who purchase do so and release the trucks out of the fleets when the accountants tell them.