From desk to own authority part 2
#1061
04-22-2007, 05:09 AM
Originally Posted by Dejanh
I guess and are okay with the payment, for now. One day the light will come on.
As in..?
#1062
04-22-2007, 05:12 AM
Originally Posted by Colin
Originally Posted by Dejanh
I guess and are okay with the payment, for now. One day the light will come on.
As in..?  ops:
#1063
04-22-2007, 05:17 AM
Originally Posted by Colin
Originally Posted by Dejanh
I guess and are okay with the payment, for now. One day the light will come on.
As in..?
Originally Posted by Dejanh
I edited it, sorry
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#1064
04-22-2007, 05:23 AM
Once again, each to his own!
But if you are making money, payments is not a problem(just extra responsibility) And if you don't, used truck won't save you. Yea, i know, new could be a headache too, but that's my headache, not somebody else! :wink:
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#1065
04-22-2007, 05:36 AM
Originally Posted by Dejanh
I guess and are okay with the payment, for now. One day the light will come on.
Who says that i will have a payment when in fact ,, the light come on''. ( and BTW what does that mean )? Am debating right now should i pay it off in September or leave it be and thats after only 1 year in service, its not for everone but if one has good money managment skills its a much better choice....
#1066
04-22-2007, 05:59 AM
I won`t ever own a new truck because of the engines, that and paying cash up front for a new tractor would be a horrible business decision financially, I just look for clean older trucks and rebuild them my way, right now we have a 97kw a 77 kw an 81 359 pete and a 90 marmon.
#1067
04-22-2007, 06:27 AM
Regardless of my leanings on the subject, I will say that Steve is taking the right approach to maintaining his truck. Not being afraid to spend money getting things taken care of when the truck is already down, even if they haven't failed yet, will always save you money in the long run. The guys that only fix things as they break quickly find out that it's the downtime, not the repair costs, that hurt the most.
#1068
04-22-2007, 10:13 AM
Originally Posted by mike3fan
You mean like the time I was riding down the road minding my own business and my motor decides that I had an extra $12,000 that I needed to get rid of? I had a truck the last 2 years that was paid off and had around a million miles on it,each of the last 2 years I had over $16,000 in repairs,considering the extra taxes I was paying and on top of that the repairs it just wasn't worth it to not have a payment.Now I have a much nicer truck and my tax liability is much easier and I don't have as many down days(loss revenue). I thought it was a good move to have a truck paid off,but for me it didn't work out. You had an engine puke on you...but did it give you warning signs Mike? Overheating...oil use..blow-by...the typical I'm sick signs..or did it just go..."I'M DONE" ?? Not much anyone can do about that...even with a brand new truck ...and yes..I have seen brand new trucks drop an engine..at 50K miles. Now..shall we return Steve's thread to his control??
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#1069
04-22-2007, 10:19 AM
Originally Posted by Teal 95 KW
And, on the whole house hold movers and weight issue...I don't see what the difference is? Other than our trucks are HEAVIER at any given point than a typical freight truck. If my LIGHT WEIGHT is 46k lbs.....and my buddies w900l with his spread axle reefer is 34k...who's heavier? I am, by 12k lbs. Now...I go and load up 34k lbs. of furniture...and, I'm at 80k lbs. He goes and picks up 46k lbs. of produce...he's at 80k as well...I don't see where orangetxguy's argument comes in to play at all. If anything else, a big bunk 379, or w900 is going to bring an empty weight of around 50k lbs. to the table, if not more...household loads typically fall in the 24-30k lbs. range, occasionally heavier....I'd a LOT rather yank that around than 45k lbs. of tomatoes or what have you...because even a light household load is going to blow your best paying dry van, flat bed, reefer load out of the water pay wise. IT doesn't matter if the loads themselves are lighter, our trucks are a good 10-15k lbs. heavier than a typical freight truck...I've sat right around 80k and still had room for more in my trailer, before. Now..let's give the thread back to Steve.
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#1070
04-22-2007, 11:15 AM
Originally Posted by Orangetxguy
I consede...80 thousand pounds is 80 thousand pounds....but how many of those Mover-trucks, with Super-sized Sleepers, ever get to 80 grand?
The few guys whom I have talked with about it, have told me they seldom see a gross weight of 65 grand..which does make a difference.
Which is why they have the Super-sized sleeper. I have seen stepdeck rigs with the same sleeper set-up. They didn't get over 65K on their gross weight either..thus the sleeper.
Now..let's give the thread back to Steve.
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