Which truck is the better buy? Side by side comparison please give advice

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  1. Regional

    Regional Light Load Member

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    2020 Freightliner Cascadia
    No APU
    DD15
    Mileage 360,000
    Engine hours 10,200
    1 year/125,000 warranty from Selectrucks

    2020 Freightliner cascadia
    Yes APU
    Mileage 416,000
    Engine hours 10,000
    No warranty
    DD15
    From Walmart fleet

    Which truck is a better option to purchase out of the two? Both are around $65,000
     
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  3. Spyro2112

    Spyro2112 Medium Load Member

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    Not enough info
     
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  4. Spyro2112

    Spyro2112 Medium Load Member

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    Do you have. Maintenance records, diagnostic report, doser valve (s) replaced. Filters clean, egr tuneup, did you drive it. Auto trans or manual, do not buy a auto too much money to repair. Extended warranty, oh yeah stay away from select truck
    Seems to me you are not knowledgeable enough..................
     
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  5. Thrasher28

    Thrasher28 Road Train Member

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    Not a truck expert, but I’d say the odds of a Walmart fleet truck being driven and treated professionally is higher on average than most units for sale. APU is a nice perk and probably still fairly low hours.

    In my experience company driving, freightliners are usually fairly reliable past the point where that warranty would financially offset the benefit of an APU and Walmart professionalism. Walmart sells trucks due to age and isn’t looking to get one over on someone. That other truck might have been traded in because of undisclosed issues, but maybe not. Who knows
     
  6. Ridgeline

    Ridgeline Road Train Member

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    We can’t judge the trucks without being there looking at them. Even if you post pictures, they don’t let us judge them.
     
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  7. 201

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    Probably a horse a piece, quite frankly, neither. The Walmart truck is tired and the other, Selectruck I'd run in the other direction. There are countless O/Os selling their treasured KWhopper, and can tell you honestly what they did to it. Not sure why you would go this route. This is right around the mileage companies get new trucks. You'll find out why.
     
  8. Arctic_fox

    Arctic_fox Experienced mx13 execrator

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    Pretty much this. At 400K+ your going to be looking at around 10k into them to get them reliable....minimum. emissions service, sensors, filters, electrical issues alternators water pumps and more. Sure you CAN get a used rig upto snuff and it can be a good option but as 201 stated. There IS a reason people dump these trucks at 400k. Its generally not worth it to a company to pay all the fiddly bits required to keep one of these worn trucks reliable. Often its cheaper to kick it down the road for 40-60% of its new value and buy a brand new one.

    Sure you get decent used rigs. Then you get rigs like my own pete. And you dont know which until you own it and put it to work. Just be aware of that.
     
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  9. abyliks

    abyliks Road Train Member

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    Probably the Walmart truck if I really had to pick, over the next 5 years though you will probably wind up doing better on just biting the bullet on a new one, emissions trucks aren’t something you want to keep long term
     
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  10. Sons Hero

    Sons Hero Road Train Member

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    Honestly, neither of them. If I was forced to choose, the Walmart truck. With this kind of miles, You’re heading into all sorts of grief with the emission system, I wouldn’t touch either of them for what they’re asking for them, go buy a brand new one, or an old truck from a retiring O/O that can tell you for an hour every nitty gritty detail about it.
     
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  11. nikmirbre

    nikmirbre Road Train Member

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    65k...goodness!!!!! I know of a Cascade with a Detroit 12.7 in it for less than 30k. Fresh out of frame!!!!
     
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