Desperate fleets are turning to salvage yards looking for trucks and parts.

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  1. Kenworth6969

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    Kenworth6969, Mar 6, 2022
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    interesting, to say the least.
     
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    That’s not a bad idea. A friend of mine parents own a salvage yard and I was having him look for dry van trailers.
     
    pumpkinishere, Mar 6, 2022
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    People are also buying older tractors that are sitting in peoples yards. Maybe get one for $5G or less because the people don't know what its really worth and just happy to get rid of it.
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    I know a guy that bought a 53' dry van that he saw in a farm/ranch auction magazine. Looked at it and the guy said he can have it for $1700.00
    He aired the tires and took it home. Filthy and moldy inside and out. When he cleaned it, it looks almost new. He uses it for OTR work.
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    Look at farm & ranch auctions and maybe find trailers and tractors for good deals.
    Same guy also bought a livestock trailer that needed repair, so instead of repairing it, he took apart and sold it for scrap. Lots of aluminum in that trailer Made a big profit on that one.
     
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    This will be known as ..."The Circle of Life" at Swift ..
    Buy it new Driver wrecks it 2 weeks later
    Buy back a the Salvage Yard.. fix it
    2 days later driver wrecks it again .
    Buy it back again
    Wreck it again etc etc etc
    1 truck + 10 drivers + 2 years = 80k miles & 9 buy backs
     
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    West Can up here used to have hundreds of Louisvilles. They did a lot of industrial/ice road fuel hauls and bent up a bunch of them in the process. They built a lot of trucks out of parts from crash victims.
     
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    @MonetaryWage - I remember you posting about buying a cheap truck. Maybe this thread will help.
     
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    Always wanted a ltl ford Kinda hard to find around central Il
    Do you know anything about the purple one
     
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    Lol junk yards have always been 1 of my first places to look. Guess I was ahead of the times
     
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