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Are you talking about the quality deal? The lone star is the most expensive truck they have. anyone that picks out the most expensive truck they can, is pretty much dooming themselves to fail.

I just don't get the mentality of running out and getting the most expensive toy you can finance. Not when the same leasing company has good trucks with much lower payments. They even have used trucks with payments half the price of their new ones.

 

I understand what you're saying, but my feeling has always been that if an extra $10-20 a week is going to break me, I don't need to be doing this. I'd rather be comfortable and happy with what I have, than settle for something I hate over a few dollars.

 

No I was just asking I'm getting a kenworth

 

While I don't know the actual costs of those quality trucks, I've talked to enough guys that have them, the new ones and the used, and the feel I got from them was the top end new lonestars are over 700 a week, and other guys got 3 year old cascadias for 400 a week.

So basically, I agree with you if it's a difference if twenty bucks. But if it's a couple hundred a week, that's a huge difference for someone just starting out.

 

True I don't want a high price tag what something I can afford is lone stars international if so never would get one don't like international

 

I have a $850 Bostrom Wide Ride low rider seat my wife got me for Christmas 2014. Memory foam cushion, heated with all the adjustments. I thought she lost her mind paying that much. I saw nice seats for $300 - $400,.. but after 1 year in this one, I dont think I want any other seat ever.

Hurst

 

The difference in the new trucks is only $20 bucks between all the models they have. Obviously used trucks are cheaper. I think the difference in new and used really just comes down to personal preference. Unless you know the truck you are buying and how it was maintained, you're gambling. Either you pay more for a new truck that is warrantied or you risk getting something cheaper that may or may not be good. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesnt. I looked at the used trucks Quality had and wasn't interested in anything I saw, so I went new. They buy wholesale fleets though, so a lot of them were ragged out. Some were well maintained, but I didn't like the model of the better looking used trucks they had at the time. I'm not against either approach, personally, I was trying to get a used truck before I ended up at Quality, deal just fell through.

 

@CJndaTruck, where are you at in Cali this weekend? I'm in Lodi at the moment, but I'm taking the weekend off, debating whether to head to LA or stay up here. I'm grabbing a load out of LA monday, so I may roll down tonight and watch the playoffs all weekend, but I'm still pissed enough at TA/Petro that I refuse to go to Ontario and give them any money.

 

Pete, I assume you are going to use the Laminate flooring(fake wood) it doesn't require glue(it snaps together) when installed in a home, it does require a thin pad underneath it. I have never put it in a truck.

 

Some said put glue down to make sure it holds. What's with the wide seats are you calling me wide lol