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Originally Posted by heavyhaulerss
trailers do depreciate.
Not like trucks do. Not even close.
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..if someone had $ 165,000 cash. I would offer other investment idea's other than trucking for their money.
And what praytell, might that be? If we were having this conversation 6 months ago, everybody would have said the stock market. Look how that turned out.
[quote]I guess the only one's to say you can get a inexpensive truck & trailer are the one's who have done it & succeeded with it. I think the theory of ya get what ya pay for is inbedded in folks minds when looking at truck prices. this does not always apply to trucks.[/[quote]
Have you bought a $20,000 truck? If so, what kind of luck did you have? We have. $18,000 and we put $13,000 into it in the first couple of months. What would happen to most new truckers if they had to deal with that?
I never said you couldn't get a cheaper truck than $50,000, BTW.
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rates are gettting cut drastically right now, one reason is, fuel prices have come down & people are racing to see who can cut the lowest to get the freight.
rates will always be getting cut. Anybody that can't deal with it had best stay away.
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my dispatch told me today she had a load out of birmingham al to laraedo tx paying a flat rate of $950.00 no fuel & 1 drop.
what type of trailer?
I guess it's the same 'ol catch 22. Everybody says don't take cheap freight, but they encourage every under capitalized tom dick and hairy with $30,000 to buy worth of stuff and go trucking.
I still say it takes $150 large or you're likely the next statistic.