Posted by JML755 on August 14, 2017 at 08:01:59 from (97.78.165.130):
Well, Traditional Farmer asked for followup: I pulled the trigger on the tractor. After talking to the guy for a few days and hearing his story, I felt pretty comfortable with the deal. I lined up a mechanic from the local tractor dealership less than 10 miles from the tractor to go look at it. Cost would be $90/hr plus mileage, figured about $200 for peace of mind. Talking to my wife about it she asked what was the guy going to do. I mentioned check for leaks, functionality, etc. She said "you've seen a video of it, everything works and you've bought stuff before that had oil leaks :oops: plus you're gonna buy it anyway, right?, so why waste the money?" :lol: Gotta love her logic. So, I bought it, just paid him direct out of my checking account like paying a utility bill, bank-to-bank xfer, took 2 days for the xaction to clear.
And then the fun started. I had put a request on Needahauler.com. and got about 10 responses within a few hours (some within minutes) with quotes ranging $300 apart from high to low. All promising how great their service was, how many trucks they had ("thousands"). Contacted the lowest guy that seemed to be more than a guy with a pickup :lol: He was at ~ $1.25/mile so I tried him first. (High guy was almost $2/mile.) No response from the first guy, called him back, still "looking for a truck" he said. Waited through a weekend and then contacted all brokers that responded. Basically opened the floodgates looking for a truck. The ones that were the most anxious for my business backed off from their promises when I said "ok, get me a truck". Funny how the excuses started. :lol:
Last Thursday, got a call from a mid- range broker who charged $250 for his services ($450 went to the driver) and he had a truck there in 3 hrs. Trucker was real professional, nice rig, had it in my driveway on Friday, less than 24 hrs after pickup. All operations checked out, neighbor drove over, took a look and commented how nice looking and well maintained it was. Other brokers charged $100 for their services but.... none of them could get a truck so their lower cost did me no good.
So, all-in-all, everything worked out fine. Learned a little more about the trucking brokerage business with LTL shipping. Most of our shipping here at work is door-to-door and we usually have only a small machine in the back of a truck, but we pay for it, big time.
Anyway, here's a pic of my wife's new tractor (she bristles every time I say that). :lol:
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