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Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: Are you in the market for a pre-2000 truck to avoid ELDs?

Whether the answer is yes or no or you already run a 1999 or older truck, weigh in here on your approach to the significant exemption for pre-2000 model year trucks under FMCSA’s ELD mandate, whose compliance date remains more than a year off.

November 15, 2016

Business

Peterbilt ‘Red Oval’ used certification to include PacLease trucks

In addition to long warranty coverage, buyers of qualified pre-leased PacLease trucks receive the full lineup of Red Oval benefits, including comprehensive vehicle inspections, preferred financing and parts discounts.

November 8, 2016

Business

Used truck prices dip on wholesale market, hold on retail side

Updates on pricing trends on the used truck market from J.D. Power & Associates.

September 23, 2016

Business

Full-service leasing on the rise?

Combine rapidly developing and complicated truck technology with new-equipment cost pressures and the Millennial generation’s rising presence in trucking, and some watchers see full-service leasing being increasingly attractive to small fleets.

August 17, 2016

Business

Used truck pricing update: 3-5-year-old sleeper tractors lag behind 2015, but remain stable

“The cohort with the best value retention looks to be trucks of model year 2013 with 400,000 to 500,000 miles,” says NADA’s Chris Visser. “Trucks in this age and mileage range have consistently returned prices in the low- to mid- $40,000 range since January.”

August 11, 2016

Business

Prices of used sleeper trucks on decline

The average retail price for used sleeper trucks dropped 6 percent from the third quarter of 2015 to the fourth, according to preliminary retail data from December.

January 15, 2016

Business

Rig Tough Used Trucks in Texas acquired by Rush

A subsidiary of Rush Enterprises Inc., which operates a network of commercial vehicle dealerships in North America, has acquired certain assets of Dallas Truck Center, a used truck dealership in Irving, Texas.

August 4, 2015

Voices

POLL: New, used, leased: How did you buy your last truck?

New, used or glider? Lease-purchase or straight lease? What best describes your most recent truck purchase?

May 20, 2015

Channel 19

Surplus parts online at cost or less

The new Surplus-Solutions.com online parts engine is also working to expand its discounted labor rates offering throughout the year.

June 1, 2013

Business

Qualifying for lending: Used truck market, Part 2

Though some owner-operators may find it difficult to get financing, lenders are much more willing to work with used truck buyers than in recent years.

September 20, 2012

Equipment

Father-son team finds sweet gig shoring up dikes

Gerald and Jake Albrecht spec’d these near-identical Kenworth W900L models with Rihm Kenworth in Northern Minnesota for side dump hauling around North Dakota levees.

September 20, 2012

Equipment

Used truck market: The toll of emissions standards, recession

Used truck customers – including first-time buyers – will find qualifying for financing the easiest it’s been since the recession, say analysts and lenders. They’ll also find the trucks to be older and more expensive.

September 18, 2012