Found my dream truck but have a few questions

Why would you reward a company with a cash sale that has a known record of ripping people off on the finance side? Do you seriously think they have a quality truck? Have read more horror stories about those guys along with other bait & switch tactics that I would treat them as the plague. They have used three different company names to sell trucks under since 2008. Additionally, they probably are NOT interested in a cash sale as their obvious income is the finance side & repo of the truck. Heck, I'd rather see you pay $20,000 too much on the 379 in GA. than to see you even dial the other guys number.

 

Do you understand the word lie!!!! That is what they do. You will see a picture of a great truck but when you get there it has just been sold ( imagine that ) but we will be happy to show you this one.
And they are junk wore out repos that went 50,000 miles with out being serviced. Stay the hell away!!
They are out to make money off suckers!!!! All they want is to get your money and send you away in a piece of junk that you will be lucky to get home. And the 50/50 thing is a LIE!! To get you in the door.
and just so you know I have never bought a truck from them so I have no axe to grind. But I have talked to a number of guys that have, and like was said they change their name at least every 2 years. Ask yourself, Why do they do that???

And as far as a Stepdeck goes I can haul almost everything a flatbed can, and a whole lot they can't so when it comes down to it there are more loads for the stepdeck.

 

Truck looks good until I read the tire brand.
Flats and steps can haul almost the same loads. You can haul higher loads on a step but longer ones on a flat. Both are good trailers and it really comes down to preference and what matches the area.

 

It's just a bad personal experience. With my luck the one and only time I tried them I got a defective one. Passenger steer tire blew on me at 65 on the turnpike. Truck rolled and I been stuck with bad luck since. That was back in 06.

 

The people in Gulfport I Would recommend staying away from them. When/IF you go you will be disappointed when you get there. I never saw the first truck that was in the Truck Paper. I dropped a gentleman off there who pulled for the same customer i did and he was all hipped up on there warranty so he went there.The first thing they did and would have been a deal breaker for me was removed the wet line before he picked it up. When he looked at the truck it had one with a aluminum frame tank on it. It was all gone when he got there. Nothin but the controls in the floor left. They gave him paperwork showing the engine had been rebuilt a couple year's ago at a truck dealer and only had a like two hundred thousand on the rebuild. It was not three month's later the truck was in the cat shop in Ashland,VA. needing a complete rebuild. Per Cat with the wear it had on the liner's and bearing's it had never been touched. The 50/50 warranty did not cover a thing. They told him it did not cover this repair. He was told that it covered everything at time of purchase even had paperwork saying so. But they claimed the truck ran so therefore the repair was not needed. He claimed to be burning over two gallons of oil a week, thats why it was at cat. I know he was blowing at least a gallon a week out the breather tube because the front of the boxes on that Pete were dripping wet. He talked to a lawyer from MS. and he basically told him he was out of luck. After a rebuild and some other issue's he sold the truck for payoff.

In response to what posted earlier about a Pete pulling a van and fuel mileage. I personally would have to see his IFTA tax returns to buy low seven's high sixe's, and don't know that I would buy those number's then. In all honesty pullin a flat with no drag above the sleeper, absolutely no idle time and about 30 percent of my load's being over 9ft wide and less than 10 percent deadhead my 2nd quarter IFTA is 6.2. When i was pulling a van or reefer the best average I could get was 5.8 on an IFTA return. Every now and then you would get this crazy high number on a tank of fuel, usually followed by a disappointingly low mpg on the next tank. And I can't count how many people claimed to beat my fuel mileage only to find out they really do not track it they just claim it.