One year as a O/O with one truck. Is buying a second as backup wise?

- No cross country driving. The most the truck drives is 300 miles round trip.

- Repairs maintenance costs were 50k total but that includes labor roughly half of the maintenance cost is labor so thats around 25k labor and 25k parts. I've tried different mechanics (roughly 4 total different ones) and they pretty have the same prices to a point that I'm wasting more time scouting for prices instead of my truck going back on the road as quickly as it can. Thats why having a second truck came to mind, so it can continue making revenue while the other truck is being worked on.

Also, If I were to buy another truck, I would need to make sure they are rotated so one truck is not just sitting there collecting dust if both of them are not broken.

It is true though that having this truck worked on for that much $$, i could have bought another truck. In a positive sense I did, it has been running smoothly for two months now knock on wood. However, I know trucks break down so this is just wishful thinking of me that this will last me another 3
months problem free.

The chance of both trucks breaking down at the same time is a 50/50 probability and if I'm only running one truck at a time, then the other truck is being looked on for issues which lessens the probability that it will fail?

 

I hope you're not being sarcastic!

 

I will need a bobtail insurance if I am going to rotate the trucks. Also another thing comes to mind and god forbid it doesnt happen but what to do in an accident and truck is totalled? This would put you down until you get another truck.

If i just trade in my truck for another one, will this new truck cost me close to the same amount of grief if not more? At this point, I'm pretty much looking for the best answer but its pretty hard to gauge with all different answers coming from different experiences.