If you think cars are hard to get - try buying a new truck at the moment. The business I work for is growing and a new truck for the fleet was needed - we use Scania’s for our larger trucks so adding a new Prime mover was a no brainer to get a Scania. Boss chatted to the Sales guy he’s bought the others off. This conversation was at the start of November just gone. The reply was ‘We aren’t even taking orders at the moment - We can look at taking your order mid to late next year, then you’re looking at 18 months from there for a build slot.’
We did end up buying a 9 month old R540 - spec was overkill for us as it was set up for road train work so has sleeper, reduction drive axles, 1700 litre tanks, etc. it was on lease through Scania to a company waiting for their new vehicle to be delivered and it didn’t even hit the market as the Sales guy grabbed it for us before they advertised it, so we got lucky as the other second hand units we looked at were crap.
It turned up just before Christmas and we’re waiting on a custom drop deck trailer now - which will be early Feb so not too bad.
A bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut as we will use it for local deliveries etc - to say the Drivers are happy with it is an understatement though.
It has the same KM on it as our 6 year old twin steer - which is out most used truck, so it will have an easier time from now on than it’s start to life.
I’ve already said that I guarantee someone will run it out of fuel as the tank is so big everyone will forget until it goes on a long run. The second pic may not be clear enough but the tanks are at 75% and distance to empty is showing 3,200KM.
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