New owner torn on a new truck.

Absolutely. I do this to make money, not for fun. I’ve had good luck with Kenworth and Cummins X15 from 2018 until now. Prior I had used trucks and it was hit and miss. I just know I’ll never buy used trucks ever again. My highest mileage new truck I’ve bought is only 350k now so I’ll see how it goes from here until 500k when I plan to offload it. I do have warranty to 500k but haven’t had to use it so far. If they start ####ting the bed at 350k then I’ll sell them at that and buy new replacements again.

 

How do you get out of them that early bot owing? If you can cycle them thru and always have warranty, as long as you dont get a bad one, good luck. I just dont want to be a slave to a $3k a month payment. I have $0 monthly payment, and no new truck is going to make me 1 cent more revenue wise, it will just cost me more. At .08c a mile maintenance it's a money maker. I'm starting g to put some away for a future rebuild and a full paint. Still nowhere near half of what a new truck payment would be.
That said I would like to have another hood, but it would have to be a truck I knew, and I just dont see myself back into a payment just to have a flashy truck. But, never say never i guess? I loved my classic, kinda wish I still had it, tho it never got 8mpg...

 

Wow that’s too bad!! Good job on not making it worse than it was.

 

Glad everyone made it out safely, good luck with the truck.

 

I still have my Classic no way I would part with it...It's been a work horse for me..I know you know what these guys are..

 

Well, it all comes down to per mile like you said.

I do enjoy 7.5 mpg fleet wide which is nice. And if you think about it if for the first 350k you have no down time and .037per mile cost then that’s pretty sweet. That includes services at 25k and new virgin tires.

IF you buy for 150k and at 350k can sell for 80k and get another fresh guy then why not?

That is 23.7 cents per mile total cost of ownership.

That’s cost to operate plus depreciation. When I bought trucks at 300 to 350k then I always need to factor 20 to 25 cents per mile just for repairs. That doesn’t factor depreciation or anything else. Certainly not downtime.

So, owning new trucks is actually cheaper and more consistent. Not to mention much less headache. You’ll gross more and spend less.

Check my math but seems right to me. I can’t afford to NOT be running new trucks. If you run them to 500k it actually costs you much more per mile since prices drop off a cliff, you have another round of tires, etc, plus any repairs that pop up not under warranty.

 

I’m not seeing where the frame is bent. Front cross member and maybe the front right frame horn, both of which are easily replaceable.