Waiting on New Trucks thread.

Just got notified of a $5600 increase per truck for any Paccar built class 8 after 4/1/22

So, that’s a $25,000 increase per unit from last fall to this spring builds.

My 3 reefers that I bought last spring were 75k each and that’s buying trailer and unit separate to save money. Same thing this spring 111k for units today and trailers July. TK said no more reefer units until first of next year so I bought them now.

####s getting real on the equipment inflation front as manufacturers catch up to the private markets. Add fuel rising in and $3/mi seems like the new 2/mi.

 

Well my normal dealer has been worthless, and my backup dealer hadn’t been able to get me anything. So, I basically contacted about 20 different dealers and only 2 responded. One was a waiting list game and one had 3 unsold for July but had no units for them. Thankfully was able to piece things together with my TK dealer. Just in time though.

Yeah, it’s pretty wild. Wabash has completely quit building reefers and all the other manufacturers are at a fraction of normal production. But ####, if there’s no units to put on them anyway, then it doesn’t matter.

The next run will be on APU’s. I may have already mentioned it in this thread but I bought two TK Evolution for these two new trucks I just put on the road. Hopefully will install soon, they are figuring out how to implement it with my fuel tank heaters. I’m now going to get two more for my end of May builds before those are sold out through end of the year. :eyeroll:

It’s tough to keep ahead of this crap.

Edit: I’ve never ran anything but bunk heaters but things were getting close to being feasible for APu before Russia/Ukraine and now it’s going to be required hardware it seems. There is another 13k to add to the 25k increase per truck. $38,000 Brandon’s in less then a year. lol we must, or cry..