Only curious about customizing a new truck

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  1. TruckRunner

    TruckRunner Heavy Load Member

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    If you customize a truck online at the dealer's website, how soon on average can the truck be customized and ready for you to buy?
     
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  3. Eddie85

    Eddie85 Bobtail Member

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    It depends. We had a guy buy a brand new Freightliner. It was gonna be delivered August. Then he got a call for September, then it was October, right now they "promised" him November.. let's see wat they say next month... Lol.
     
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  4. S M D

    S M D Road Train Member

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    Depends on truck.
    Kenworth is usually ahead of due date on a build
     
  5. SteveScott

    SteveScott Road Train Member

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    If they're ordering it from the factory to your specifications, count on a minimum of 6 to 8 months. Most manufacturers are working overtime to keep up with all of the orders.

    I was just informed today that my new KW T680 arrived at the dealership. I didn't order it spec, but took one that they had already ordered, and I still waited 3 months for it. It was close enough to my specs and I'm happy to get it.
     
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  6. Ridgeline

    Ridgeline Road Train Member

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    How do you customize a truck online?

    I have to go to the dealer and discuss anything I want changed with them.
     
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  7. TruckRunner

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    Freightliner Configurator
     
  8. gentleroger

    gentleroger Road Train Member

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    That is just a play tool, not an actual order form. It is a way to entice you into goving your details to a local dealer.
     
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  9. MysticHZ

    MysticHZ Road Train Member

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    Yep ... Took me 5 weeks of going back and forth with the dealer to spec out my truck. Then another week before the factory gave me a build date for 6 weeks out.

    Those sites just give you ballpark of how you can configure a truck. There's a lot more to configuring a truck than what's on the marketing site

    And don't assume anything. If you don't spec it the way you want, you may not get what you thought you were going to get. Especially the little things that you wouldn't think about.
     
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  10. Ridgeline

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    Thanks but ... as he said below

    The number of options on any truck is along, very long. MOST people don't get to see that list, let alone order outside the standard order for a truck.

    I have been doing this for a while and I have three or four specs I use depending on what mood I am in, these were all worked out long time ago and it saves me hours haggling with my sale dweeb.
     
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  11. Cam Roberts

    Cam Roberts Road Train Member

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    Maybe he though buying a new truck was as easy as ordering a pizza online hahahah
     
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