Waiting on New Trucks thread.

What happens when next year comes around and I need 4 trucks, there’s 1M

What about when I need to buy a shop, there’s another 1M.

I need financing, our books look amazing but they keep playing “Oh, you’re so new to the USA and we can’t trust you’ll pay your bills”

Like seriously, F off, we’ve had trade accounts for 2.5 years now and have ran hundreds of thousands through them!

Arggggggg - if it was easy everyone would do it, if it were easy everyone would do it, if it were easy everyone would do it…

 

Yep. He’ll never be like so many of the past megas who were here today and gone tomorrow, because their financing company shut them down and secured the assets. @bonder45 owns his stuff. That’s meaningful!

 

I used to think this, until I bought a used one.

Having a half dozen empty trucks sitting around to stick drivers in makes leaving one in the shop with undefined parts delays a lot less stressful.

 

My 47X is built and was moved to Godwin for the body last week. Now to see how long it takes to get that done.

 

….well, 1/2 trucks showed up.

It looks so goofy….

Hope it looks better once the rear fenders, drop axle and bumper is installed.

 

Never seen one of those. Long haul oilfield truck? I’m assuming it would pull those heavy duty platform trailers permanently rigged with all the equipment, sorta’ like this pic?

 

Western star dealership around me just ran an ad with like 10-12 unclaimed new built trucks and or open slots ……a sign of the new way.

 

That looks like a coil tubing set up. Gonna guess that is not what he pulls most likely more like the tanks is gonna be my guess?

 

I visited my Mack salesman after I dropped mine off for service today. Mainly to hustle a free ride back to my yard. He says their allotment was cut about 30% for 2023, and all their production slots remain sold out for the year. I asked if he had many cancel or not take delivery, and he said not really. A few but most orders were being delivered when they arrived. Allotment due to ongoing supply issues of all sorts, not just electronics. The word from HQ is they expect that to improve the latter half of this year. Not only got a ride to my pickup, but some great 2023 calendars too since they had lots leftover after giving them to customers they like more than me.