{"id":17353,"date":"2024-12-21T16:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/used-truck-pricing-value-a-role-for-aftertreatment-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:27:23","slug":"used-truck-pricing-value-a-role-for-aftertreatment-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/used-truck-pricing-value-a-role-for-aftertreatment-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Used-truck pricing, value: A role for aftertreatment maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The first two parts of this year’s\u00a0series examining the Environmental Protection Agency’s diesel emissions regulations’ impact on pricing<\/a> and reliability for equipment over two decades<\/a> focused largely on markets for new Class 8s, yet the survey that prompted the series underscored a longstanding reality. Most owner-operators, including 67% of respondents to that survey, acquire their trucks in the used market. There, supply and demand have taken a rollercoaster ride over the last four years from the highest of demand highs post-pandemic back to a degree of normalcy today. <\/p>\n

Used-truck demand’s cooled fast with the freight markets over the last two years, though, as ACT Research’s Steve Tam recently highlighted for attendees of the Used Truck Association’s annual conference<\/a>. “Trucks are inexpensive right now,” generally speaking, he said. More-recent updates from ACT on used-market retail truck sales<\/a> showed better-than-expected sales volume results in November, but otherwise underscored the sentiment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For\u00a0Overdrive <\/i>readers with truck-purchase plans on the horizon, the emissions spec generation of those rigs matters — there’s evidence that early-generation aftertreatment equipment’s generally negative reliability reputations<\/a> have followed those trucks around to this day. As 2024 Overdrive\u00a0<\/i>Trucker of the Year-contending owner-operator Gary Schloo put it, “I wouldn\u2019t touch anything built between 2008 and 2012 or so,” he said. “Those were the early systems.” About that first generation of diesels featuring selective catalytic reduction (SCR) with diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), Schloo added, “they were really problematic, as I watched the company I was leased to get rid of theirs and take a butt-kicking on them” at resale.<\/p>\n

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We polled readers this summer about current truck-purchase plans. Very few of those looking at used vehicles signaled intentions to target the model-year ranges with the most negative reputations for emissions-systems problems — trucks that\u00a0first came outfitted with the diesel particulate filter (DPF), generally in the 2008-’10 model year range, and 2011-’14 diesels introducing SCR aftertreatment with DEF.<\/p>\n

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