Yep! One of the Peterbilts with around 35,000 on it went for $35,000. That's pathetic.. Somebody raised a point earlier, and I asked them for verification. Did these units cross the auction block with or without maintenance records? If not, why not? That would seriously impact the prices.Another bath in tractors at the Texas sale today, though Dollies fared a little better.
Without I'm sure, not real common in the used truck market to have them available.
Who would they get them from?
The fleet maintenance people who were still employed for months after the shutdown.
All the binders had been removed from the 11 trucks that were purchased at auction.
The binders contain the registration, insurance and all of the permits. Those SHOULD be removed, or at least emptied out. Those don't transfer to a new owner. The maintenance records would need to be printed out from the mainframe and included with each unit.
Some of the trailers sold for less then the dollies................................................Could possibly also filter by price maybe? That might eliminate a quantity of trailers in the results.
The only time I've ever seen them do that is to comply with a court order....................................
Who would pay for the person who would gather and print these documents?
Stimp, there were a considerable number of fleet maintenance managers, directors, etc. etc. on payroll for quite some time after the shutdown. They would be the ones. I hope they weren't in the shops polishing their fingernails all that time.
The history we had access to was incomplete at best, as in a lot of vendor repairs were not there/not coded if you were lucky you got a vendor number and a cost number.
I would assume a company continuing to operate would do that when selling off older or surplus equipment. In a bankruptcy liquidation it seems that's not done.
I can go along with that, but how much of the fleet was new with low miles?? I've seen a few pieces of linehaul equipment (and a LOT of city equipment) that had 1,500,000 miles on them.
Yep and we had to email KGO to have them research when the engine swing was done and by who when trying to determine to just do a head or ask for a engine swing or if there was a possibility of warranty.
We never provided maintenance histories with sold units.
They probably quit inputting maintenance data on most of the 15-20 yr old Volvo p and d tractors, 10 years ago. Last one I drove about 7 years ago, a 69000 series tandem yellow Volvo, had 1.3 million on it.
Wrench, you piqued my curiosity. You were a shop manager, a wrench-spinner or some time at each? At this company is what I'm asking about.
No records.
