What does UPS do with their old trucks?

[Sonny Pruitt]

I asked this ? on another site and got quite a few different answers.
One thing though, I never see them in the truck paper, auctions or even see evidence of one in Port Newark. What do they do with them?

[Fishhook]

I was told by an old UPS guy that they scrap them, literally.They do not sell or part out anything.They run them so long that they are worth more as scrap than as an entire vehicle

I have hard the same exact thing....they go to the junk heap

[Jackrabbit379]

I asked this ? on another site and got quite a few different answers.
One thing though, I never see them in the truck paper, auctions or even see evidence of one in Port Newark. What do they do with them?

They take the trucks to a body shop,and paint grey stripes on them for the Overnite guys. :P Ive seen some of the old Overnite trucks that UPS has painted up. Its like they either left the grey,and painted some brown stripes,or painted grey stripes over the brown. Man,some hot lookin trucks. :| 8) :P

[One]

Wilson has a junkyard with all their condemned trucks...they save tons salvaging and keeping trucks on the road that way. Rarely do they sell any trucks atall. Surely UPS does it similarly.

[PackRatTDI]

They must do the same thing with their panel vans. Or maybe the keep the body and switch out the chassis.

[Brown67]

They junk everything. I was told years ago by a supervisors they do it to cut down on liability. Don't won't to get sued by someone who wrecks in those old trucks. We still have package cars w/o power steering. Not just a few, but a bunch. Some of the package cars will 20 years before they get rid of them. The tractors the feeders guys use will go 1 million miles before they will get rid of them.

[Tony_Soprano]

once in a while, you might see one painted white, on the side of the road, these have been retired to the maintenence dept,i've also seen them in a funky beige color, usually in a larger building with a paint and body shop..

[allan5oh]

That's how they make the money, keeping the old trucks, and reparing them.

Depreciation on a new truck will always be greater then repairs. There might be short term periods where it is not true, but overall it definitely is true.