Buying older ISX truck for cash vs "fleet maintained" newer ISX

[dhirocz]

Agreed.

As time goes on, we have more offshore china shi#t, stuff engineered to fail, and more taxes and whatnot. People don't realize the financial engineering going on around them. Look at paccar. All the newest trucks are made by design to be a constant source of income to the dealer. Corporate doesn't want you being able to do anything yourself.

Similar to lots of other things nowadays.

My city told me that I could get a permit and frame in another bedroom myself, but I would have to hire a carpenter to supervise. Not to check it, but actually watch me. Are you fucking kidding me???

Instead of being a person will a well rounded skillset, society really wants you to excel at one thing...Your job...And pay a specialist to do everything else for you. I don't agree with this. While it may help stimulate your local economy, it also sucks financially for you, to pay someone to do something you can easily do yourself. For me, fixing my truck myself has been a key part of my business model and the only reason I was even remotely profitable last year.

I'm afraid as time goes on, technology will intentionally make it harder to work on and service things without controlled access to computers, schematics and equipment. I hate it.