My experiences with Lone Mountain

http://www.pedigreetrucksales.com/default.htm

That is the company that Prime sells their used trucks under. Can you go to that website and show me where they have trucks for sale for $25,000 please?

 

Where did you learn this fact?

I'd love to know where I could get a 3 year old Cascadia with APU and Inverter for $25k. Maybe at a place where I could also buy a unicorn to ride shotgun?

The dealership I work for buys some of its inventory direct from Prime. Maybe sometime I'll ask our salesman what the company pays for them. I know his profit margin is much better on the used trucks than new, but I still highly doubt we pay anything near $25k.

Also, when we acquire trucks straight from Prime "everything that's wrong with them" is not fixed (we have to fix issues). Any maintenance "paperwork" is what we can look up on the Freightliner website and all it deals with is any warranty repairs that may have been done. We also have to get them detailed, because they're not clean and the interiors are in whatever shape the last driver left it in.

I do the intake inspections on the used trucks we get. I've found quite a bit of things wrong with the trucks that are "must fix" items which have to be addressed before we officially add the truck to inventory and list it for sale.

 

Not beat a dead horse, but a few years ago I looked at buying a used Roehl truck, 5 years old and around 55k is more like it.

 

Truck:
2012 Volvo 780
D13 engine 425 HP
3:42 rear end
workstation (sitting at it now, actually quite nice)
$8,800 down
$1,750/mo, 42 months
TOTAL: $82,300

Lone Mountain buying experience: Crappy, just hold your nose.
-- Poor communication
-- No shuttle/loaner car
-- Adversarial attitude from salesperson aka Ms. Personality (eye roll). Whenever I would have an issue, she wouldn't offer solutions, only roadblocks, no suggestions whatsoever. She lite up after all was finalized, most talking I'd heard from her the entire time. YES, I'd recommend them because they're accommodating to first-time buyers and they have a nice selection.

I went with LM because, as a first-time buyer, I was getting financial quotes like 30% down and 21% interest (bankruptcy 6 yrs ago), so that was impossible to meet. I applied online at Lone Mountain, was called back within 30 minutes by a representative at Cresco Capital, told me I had a credit score of 677 even WITH bankruptcy, asked for maintenance fund plans (a lot of repos due to breakdowns and drivers not having an adequate maintenance fund), and asked for three references and their phone numbers. They called all three and within 2 hrs of application I was approved for ANY truck on their lot. Drove up on Monday 4/14 with my truck gear and am finally sitting in truck after finalizing today 4/16 around 1:30pm. I had set backs due to not getting my drug test completed ahead of time which would have finalized my new hire to Landstar a day or two ago. So, I had to purchase temporary insurance until I get up to Landstar orientation in Rockford, IL. afterwhich I can cancel it and get a partial refund and I'll then be on Landstar's Gallagher insurance.

 

only if landstar 's Gallagher insurance has gap coverage.

 

'MaxFarce', that's funny, and true. Anybody who has been following trucks and talking to the drivers who drive them, can tell you how bad ProStars have been. They are designed cheap and built cheap, in Mexico. The CEO of International has even made anti-owner operator comments. The ProStar with its MaxFarce motor was intended to be a cheap mega-carrier truck that would hopefully run for 3 years. Then it would be sold to the hated owner ops, who would hopefully go belly up with that Trogan horse of a truck.

 

I have a friend who's purchased 2 trucks from Lone Mountain and he is very pleased.

 

I prefer the term "Maxipad"

 

My hubby bought his truck at Lone Mountain in Council Bluff Iowa or near there in August 2013. 2008 Prostar Auto and Thank God, no problems with it, just regular maintenance. We put 3,000 down monthly payments are 1050 for 34 months. We were in and out in 3 hours with truck

 

I've been eyeballing those trucks on their site. Only things that I'm wary of are the fixed 5th wheel and the 2012 SCR (DEF) system. And the color makes me think they were CRST Expedited trucks. How do you like yours so far?