Should I buy this truck?

[Hay Dude]

So if that Sterling is $20k I think you should.
I like the camo also. It'll partially match your IH and several other colors.

I think 6x4 with floaters & full lockers is enough traction. If it ain’t, prolly dont belong there, right?

 

[4570Man]

You overweight on your rear tractor axle?

I’ve never scaled it but that hoe is just like 27k so it should be alright.

 

[Hay Dude]

I’ve never scaled it but that hoe is just like 27k so it should be alright.

Huh, ok.
Looks like its got (or had) def/dpf?

 

[4570Man]

Huh, ok.
Looks like its got (or had) def/dpf?

It’s a 2019 truck that still uses def.

 

[5030]

The issue with buying ANY used truck or tractor is how the previous owner maintained it and if they actually took care of it or not. With no maintenance records, I presume there aren't any, you are buying a 'pig in a poke', with the potential of major repairs looming. It might come out smelling like a rose but it may come out smelling like a turd.

From the overall looks of it, I'm leaning towards the turd end. 20 grand isn't a lot but you could very well have 20 grand in repairs as well. JMO.

 

[5030]

I’ve used Passport twice and very satisfactory but I had a car to pickup in Florida and Passport was weeks out for pickup…

The seller said they had a husband and wife team coming to pick up another car destination California so I asked if there was room for one more…

The husband and wife team was 40% less and happy to pickup a second car with similar destination…

The issue with transporting classic vehicles is always the liability insurance.

BTW, Tom Lester, Lester Industries and Passport Transport was origionally based in Solon, Ohio and Tom's family started out in the pressure die cast metals business and Tom started Passport Transport because he was a classic car collector and wanted a company dedicated to hauling them world wide. I got to know Tom through the Crawford car museum. My employer at the time did work for them restoring vintage vehicles. I believe Reliable is Michigan based but I don't know much about them. Transporting classic and vintage vehicles never sparked my interest as I had no desire to live on the road, even if it was a large car woth a 'house' on the back. Bad enough I hauled electrical transformers for Westinghouse and switching locomotives for them out of Cleveland. Those loads were always permit loads and always took a lot of road time and again, I never got into living on the road. I did it because they pay was fantastic but that was it. Got to drive a double bunk K'whopper with an 1693 Cat and a 13 double over and pull a Kozad or a Rodgers detachable with a tridem rear and a flip axle. Always permit loads, always escort loads and always daylight running as well. Got away from that and became a local company driver and never looked back.

Was an interesting experience but not something I would want to repeat.

 

[5030]

Tom owned a Dusenberg SJ and I still remember it fondly. I still remember riding in it as well. What a classic car. Dusenberg's were way ahead of their time back when they were built.

Just memories now, but good memories.

 

[Hay Dude]

It’s a 2019 truck that still uses def.

I wanted to make sure to avoid that altogether, although this truck has EGR (all do after 2004.5)
I have the Ram with DEF/DPF and its been fine so far, but even earlier cooled EGR’s scare me, too.

 

[5030]

I will say one thing concerning cooled EGR units and what they produce in the process and that is, prior to retirement from the dealership where I worked, DDEC had a huge issue with it as the hard carbon from the EGR process was fouling the intake runners and casusing sensors to fail and DDEC ate quite a few engines. The by products of combustion as well as the crankcase blowby inany compliant engine but especially in DDEC engines collects as hard carbon in the imtake runner and causes expensive grief for the owner at some point.

You can always thank the EPA book smart, practical dumb idiots for that.

I kind of wonder how that will impact the current EPA T4-5 tractors as well?? Stuff has to go somewhere after all. Rudolph Diesel didn't design the engine to consume it's own by products of combustion, I don't believe.

 

[Hay Dude]

So if that Sterling is $20k I think you should.

Thats what I was thinking.
If I don’t have to give much, I figure what the heck, I’ll give it a shot and throw farm tags on it. I’m not hobby farming and cheating the system it’ll be for real farm work hauling bales, IF I buy it lol

Still looking, but I like the features, size, capacity, price of this truck

I like the camo also. It'll partially match your IH and several other colors.

It’s growing on me, but I’d like to have all trucks same color. I think dark green will cover the camo better than white, again IF I buy it.