Swift used trucks

No!

maybe you find a diamond in the rough but I doubt it. Swift is like most notorious place for rookies to go. Rookies trash trucks because they’re new and don’t know how to drive, or because they just don’t care. The “fleet maintained” sales gimmick is more of an illusion than anything. Fleet trucks often miss oil changes or do extreme oil change intervals and etc. fleets are more worried about delivering the load, they fix something once it breaks. They ultimately don’t care because in 3 to 5 years they’re going to dump that truck off into the owner operator market.

a used emissions truck from swift? I wouldn’t touch it. Maybe if it was like $10k I would entertain.

I’d look around on Craigslist and truck paper for responsible owner ops who are retiring or upgrading trucks.

 

Probably no different than any other mega fleet's iron. Bare minimum to keep it legal and then dump it at 450k before it needs $20k in emission repairs.

 

Yes! Exactly

 

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You're asking for trouble IMO. Megas hire pretty much nothing but inexperienced drivers. These trucks are what they learn on. Also, they only maintain them enough to keep them legal because they don't keep them long enough to care about the consequences later. You'll be the one dealing with all that nightmare work.

 

Depending on how much you check it out...

My last truck was a used US Xpress volvo. Had 500k when I got it.. parked it with 1.397k. Never had to rebuild the Engine, Trans or rearends.

Current truck is a used Swift prostar.
Had 408k when I got it. Now has 555k and just normal repairs

 

So you are saying that all the thousands of drivers driving for large companies are inexperienced?

 

Ahh. No. But the trend is so

 

90% of them are

I bought my 97 from the original owner/driver in 2017, there is no way I would even look at something that’s had ~30 different clowns beating the hell out of it over the years