Full sized truck dealers are like any used car dealer

[Big Dad]

Not near as many to choose from to be sure but ..

since the "supply chain" got disturbed been tough to find new trucks


Managed to find a couple here and there over past couple years


Getting kind of desperate lol



seldom to they advertise the price, its always call for price , called somewhat Local dealer to me and he listed what he had for new .. nothing that work for me

but, he just took in 7 trucks off a local fleet that have all the paperwork to see what has been fixed and carry a 1 year warranty on major driveline.

one he sent me was $88,000 said all of them are about the same

so i said pickou your 3 nicest cleanest and give me a price for that plus a new 579 with everything I need

, lol comes back with

List for 579 $245,000 and 94,000 each for the 3 used ones i questioned it and he said yeah the nicer ones are more money , we were at 99,000 each and ps, need to make up your mind
quick sales mgr wont hold prices for more than 24 hours


Lol

Pass

 

[missing linc]

Our company has had the same issues with getting new tractors, guess it's an industry wide problem. Finally got some this summer that were ordered 2 years ago.

 

[mbaird]

The biggest difference is how much mark up there is in a used tractor ( Semi). As far as new goes heavy truck manufacturers have concessions (discounts that vary according to the size of the fleet. Prime , Arlo Lott etc… get huge concessions. Maybe upto 20k per unit or more depending on the size of order and how many units the have in operation in total .

Prime may order a 120k tractor and only pay 85k for it . Then they hire / train a driver on the condition he/she stays on with the company for a period of time . Then they lease that tractor to the driver at a cap cost of 120k + % ! The driver is essentially an indentured servant and prime is making bank on the lease + getting cheap labor ! I used random numbers as an example but the actual numbers are pretty similar in range .
I managed Volvo Truck sales department and sold for a Freightliner dealership back around 2000.