Mexican dry vans

Friend of mine constantly scans "farm auctions" on the internet and in some magazine he gets.
He bought a 53' dry van for under $2000.00
The farmer/rancher had the trailer parked beside his barn and had been using it for storage.
He put newer used tires on it and cleaned the inside and cleaned the mildew off the outside.
The trailer looked excellent. He had it DOT inspected and it passed.
He uses it for OTR trucking.

 

Some brokers will care but not enough to slow him down if he's just running basic van freight. I think I may've been asked 2-3 times this past year what year my trailer was.

 

I can only remember being asked 1 time what year our wagons were. Needed the full 101 inside width for empty beer cans. More or less they just wanted to know it was a plate van

 

What is a plate van?

 

What they call the newer vans with 101.25 inside width. Logistic post trailer. Some loads like beer cans they won't load an older trailer because it's only around 99-100 in wide

 

Latest market analysis says inventories are at historic lows, the post-covid freight boom is just beginning, and this spring and summer are going to be absolutely ridiculous for van and reefer. DAT predicts van rates will be higher than flatbed rates by the end of this month.

 

Well hell I have a 15 Great Dane composite with new tires, Centramatics. New shocks, and a fresh alignment. #### I should be able to get 25k

 

Nexa is a tank trailer builder out of Mexico. They look pretty nice.
There was a custom Flatbed builder from Mexico that was being used in South Texas years ago. I think name was Hernandez or Martinez? They looked overkill heavy duty.