How much is your payment?

Then maybe trucking ain't for you...
Old trucks have to be maintained, new trucks have to be maintained.

What shape will you be in when that NOx sensor you need isn't in stock anywhere, and you're truck is stuck at the dealer a month waiting on parts? Or waiting 5 or 6 days on a simple warrantied repair?

I can spend a ton on maintenence, if it gets me back to work.

If you're not making enough to maintain your equipment, you need to make some changes.

 

Let me put it this way, after being on the spot market for 5 years now, any payment over $2500 per month, with my relatively high maintenance cost which is inevitable if you bought a used, over 500 000 mile truck, would have been too difficult for me to like it, most likely impossible to stay afloat.

Notwithstanding inflation, higher costs of maintenance, fuel, we had seemingly better rates in the last 20 months.
One could think that it was easy to make the last 20 installments but you still have 30 more coming when the rates won't hold up as well.

Let's not kid ourselves anymore, $5 per gal is a game-changer if your fuel mileage is less than 6.5 mpg.

 

Seriously, wait until that Tesla truck is fully released and has support infrastructure for charging. I think they’re 250,000-300,000$. The fuel savings alone will pay for the truck payment leaving you with most likely a little more net per week in the end. They’re guaranteeing 1 million miles without major problems. Assisted auto pilot, center position seating. Like driving an amg Mercedes but a big rig instead.

 

How much longer are we going to wait to see them? He's been kicking that can down the road for a few years now.

 

so you can’t stick your head out the window to back in a dock, sounds great

I did ~60,000 miles last year I’m not even going to do the math to figure out how many decades it would take me to “save” that much in fuel

 

What’s the range on them? 200 miles if you’re lucky? Then has to recharge for 5-10 hours or longer? Yeah, a real game changer.

 

What was your maintenance cost for 2021?

 

My 10 Kw t660 has 1 million 150k showing,
I ran it for 6 months, 2 months was waiting on a Nox sensor for Freightliner
This 16 Freightliner I’ve owned now for 3 years, but payment is only 1120/month.
It sat parked for September of last year, just back to running it this week.

 

Ah give it time. Hopefully it goes well with mileage. If it does, it makes perfect sense to buy one. The fuel cost will pay the payments. I love an old Pete, but for business purposes I’d 100% roll a Tesla and have the Pete or kw for pleasure

I believe they’re shooting for 800-1000 miles