I have an opportunity to purchase several new Mack MP8/MDrives,

You need to do a lease purchase deal with Paccar.

I don't know if it's because I'm an Arizona resident, or if it applies to all equipment purchased in Arizona, we have various stimulus packages, but there are ways around it.

Inland in Phoenix even describes it on their home page.

 

I may well be wrong but to the best of my limited knowledge somebody somewhere at
sometime is going to pay that FET.

 

I’d have to agree with this. Heard these rumors too so I asked my tax guy. He said there have been bills in Congress, one from last year stuck in a committee from the House I think. He did a little research and told me it had been around for over 100 years... I don’t think it’s going anywhere.

 

It’s a hard decision for sure. I guess if down time is affecting my service to my customers I’d feel like it would be necessary to hit the order button. Only thing that differentiates fleets is customer service.

 

The government getting rid of a tax. That's not standard operating procedure.

 

FET isn't going anywhere guys, no matter what you hear. If it does, then something will replace it.

 

I ordered five new trucks for January, they come to $136545 (each), no sales tax or local taxes. FET adds $16k to the price so I am ending up paying $152931 each. I didn't think twice, I needed the trucks.

If you hessitate over this trivial thing, then what's next - paint color?

Order them, get moving ... good deals are not going to last much longer.

 

The other thing that will come about is shippers requiring "green" trucks, irregardless of location.

Manufacturers will get some tax break or other insensitive for having that.