Help understanding Peterbilt semi trucks

Well correct me if I'm wrong but aren't lots of folks looking for 2009/2010 trucks because of emissions? Therefore they are more expensive then they otherwise be?

 

If you want pre DPF, you have to find a 2007 or earlier truck. The EPA2007 regs didn't take effect until late in 2007. Same with EPA2010. My company bought a bunch of 2011 Volvos with EPA2007 engines because they were among the last of the 2011 trucks to roll off the assembly line without SCR and DEF.

They were Cummins ISX engines and were troublemakers.

 

If you want pre EGR, the cutoff is 2003.

 

Ahh got it ty.

 

Here's more terminology: The truck is not a "semi", the trailer is.

 

No it's one of the worst years

 

Get glider trucks and eliminate the emissions crap like Fitzgerald in Tennessee

 

Dude, I really hope you get what I'm going to say and read it a couple times.

IT is the fact that buying a truck isn't like buying a car, it is a tool, so there is a due diligence that is needed to find the right one to suit your needs. I recommend two things, first find any truck that is within your budget and then do the four basics - Oil Analysis, ECM dump (full dump), a dealer background check (every truck is tracked for warranty purposes) and a Dyno test to determine what percentage of the power is left and how much blowby is being produced - do this on every one that you are seriously considering. PAY for it out of your own pocket because that money is just part of the game. The important thing to remember above all is look for a truck that fills YOUR needs, if you are OTR, then great lots of those out there, while if you are doing heavy haul or some other specialized thing, then look for a truck specifically for that work and may take a while to find a good one. DO NOT get hung up on brands or models until you get the specs down - BECAUSE the secret is they are basically all the same.

Emissions? Don't let that scare you, a lot of BS is talked about because how people treat their trucks - like one guy I know who never changed the oil on his new ISX and couldn't understand the consent failures he had with the emissions because no one looked at the truck during its life, no oil changes, no mechanic looking at it to see if there were any issues. He gave up on it, sold it cheap to one of my drivers who has had NO issues with it since correcting all the issues the first owner had. i've had no problems with the three new trucks I purchased in the last year. not one issue with emissions and one truck runs 24/6. But I take care of them differently from others.

Business entity. I strongly recommend if you ever do this on your own, DO NOT get an LLC. For some reason people think it protects your assets if you have an accident, it does not. Now people can make this claim, it just isn't true in this industry. I would get an accountant who knows business - doesn't need to know trucking - and a lawyer if you want to make this an actual business. Form a corp, this way you can find advantages to tax liability while actually protecting your assets outside of the corp. There are a lot of other advantages to it, especially with drivers you hire that can't be done under an LLC.

 

Not true in his case. An LLC would provide him some protection.

LLC’s are of no use to an O/O because someone who is suing will sue both the company and the driver and an LLC will only protect the company. The O/O’s personal assets would not be protected in this case because he is not only the company, he is also the driver.

He’s not talking about being an O/O and driving the trucks himself, he is talking about being a company owner and hiring drivers to operate the trucks.

As he is not the driver an LLC will isolate the company assists from his own assets like it would for any other company. Someone suing his company would only be able to go after his company’s assists (as well as the drivers he hires assists).