commercial trucks - teaching you to choose the correct commercial truck
Commercial Trucks
Commercial trucks will teach you to choose from among the best commercial trucks when looking to buy, and will guide you through important steps before the purchase. First set up good contacts for replacement parts and service locations for each moveable part on the tractor trailer.
When searching for commercial trucks you should get all service records, original paperwork, and repair receipts including labor. This paper trail will help you determine the commercial trucks real value and avoid more problems. Search the paperwork and don't purchase commercial trucks with no informational background. If you can find a recent AC charge then you might want to search deeper. If you come up with more than three receipts for AC charges in the last year then there must be a problem.
If the seller cannot provide you with a receipt trail or certified inspections report how will you know where you are at? Here your main concerns are ensuring the truck does not have problems that you cannot afford to fix and still make money from your truck. When you purchase a new commercial truck you don't have quite the same set of problems. I wouldn't suggest buying commercial trucks or brands that you know little about.
If the dealer or seller can't prove the condition of the vehicle then don't buy the truck, unless you can afford to restore it, part by part. That means: everything moving from body, tires, and glass, hydraulic tubes, Air conditioning systems, brakes, steering linkage, front end parts, tires, shocks, verify engine compression and oil analysis, transmission, electrical system from the wiring harness to the gauges, alternator and fuse panels, air compressor recovery time. A qualified mechanic can look over these items and identify potential money taking problems before the purchase. Then you can use this information to negotiate a lower price so you can afford to get the work done.
Rust on commercial trucks cannot be stopped. You should always take a rust problem on any vehicle seriously and here with a truck that you intend to put hundreds of thousands of miles on it is of significant importance. Sheet metal and bondo are not permanent fixes. A small amount of rust on the body might be okay if the big rig is priced correctly. However, accepting commercial trucks with any kind of structural rust, frame issues like heavy flaking, rusted through fenders. Badly rusted hood hinge mounts are very hard to fix permanently and that is why some many manufacturers use fiberglass hoods now.
You should get the advice or help from a skilled salesman, especially if your price range exceeds 15,000. Getting help from a used commercial truck dealer or broker can usually save you money.
Look above for dealers I recommend that are reputable, experienced and smart enough to be worth every penny they may cost you in "markup". I say "may" cost you, because typically they SAVE you money. Dealers are also governed by many laws and a code of ethics. Without their help one won't typically find better prices for commercial trucks
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