FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

I was an International guy back in the day before the maxxforce debacle. I steered clear of International, but was happy with the truck I'm selling today. I wouldn’t get in a truck with that A26 motor either, but I’m happy with how this Cummins treated me overall.

For the price point you can’t beat it, I looked hard at Freightliner and Volvo, but couldn’t find any low mileage trucks, and if I did they wanted twice of what I’m going to to pay for the International with comparable mileage.

Some people say International is a throwaway truck, maybe. I look at it like this, I buy it a good price point, drive it for four years, get my moneys worth out of it, and repeat.

I was financially qualified for a brand new truck, but I don’t want a $3500+ a month truck payment. That truck owns you, my payment on that used Walmart truck will be under $1400 a month. This is the first International I owned. I wish I had kept that truck, that engine was bulletproof.

 

Walmart doesn’t usually buy Internationals but because of the backlog of freightliner and KWs during COVID that was mainly all they could get. They are moving on from those trucks now going back to what they usually run. So a lot of their Internationals are hitting the used market. The majority I was seeing was mid 400Kto 500K, I had a couple of salesmen around the country looking for trucks in the low 300K range. When he found these in the high 200K range I jumped on it.

Factory warranty for engines, transmission, and drive line components are good for five years or 500K miles. Plus International offers a 90 day bumper to bumper warranty on used trucks.

 

Thanks, if Trump hadn’t won the election, I probably would have run my current truck until it Shat the bed, and then just gone back to driving a company truck. After the election, felt comfortable pulling the trigger on another truck.

How many days until you hang’em up? Did y’all ever find a house in Alabama?

 

Definitely staying at FCC, good people and I make a good living. Freights steady, miles are there, and pretty consistent. I ran 30K less miles this year than I normally do, but that was my choice. I was just looking at my year end numbers earlier, for the miles I ran this year I’m happy.

Debating about posting my year end numbers in the next few days, but some people think I’m trying to be braggadocious, so we’ll see.

 

If you are already in a Peterbuilt or KW lease you are grandfathered in, but they have had so many issues with the Paccar platform they feel like they are putting you behind the 8 ball as a lease operator, so from what I’m told only Freightliners on the lease.

I give FCC credit for that because they want you to be successful in the lease, and as many issues as they’ve had with the Paccar platform they just don’t feel like you can be successful.

Just watched a YouTube video about RBX out of Springfield, Mo. filed chapter 11. The main reason, KW T680s with Paccar and so much downtime. This was straight from the CEOs mouth, it’s on that clown Mutha Truckers news channel. I don’t like that guy, but this was actually a good interview: