The Best Way to Sell Your Truck

Truck owners tend to be a bit different from car owners; they tend to form a deep bond with their vehicle. This is probably because trucks are more often used as tools for work, and every working person who relies on tools is obsessed with taking care of them. There comes a time in every truck owner’s life when they have to make that heart breaking decision and decide if they should sell their old truck.

There are lots of reasons for this. You need a truck with better gas mileage, your truck isn’t a good family vehicle, or its just old and worn down. Whatever the reason you have for retiring your old truck, whether it is to buy the best family truck or upgrade to a minivan, you’re going to want to offset the cost by selling your old truck.

Dealing with buyers

Selling a truck is its own process and can cause a major headache if you don’t know what you’re doing. The first big challenge in selling a truck is dealing with the buyers. Truck buyers are future truck owners, so as a truck owner yourself, you should be familiar with their peculiarities.

They tend to be brand loyal; a Ford owner is probably not interested in owning a Toyota at all. They also are looking for very specific qualities and specifications (trucks are tools remember). Some are looking for a stylish classic truck while others might be looking for a box truck. That means as the seller you have to clearly define what type of truck you’re selling. e.g. you want to sell a semi truck or sell a commercial truck.

There’s a lot of paperwork to handle

Whenever you sell a truck or any vehicle, you are going to have to deal with lots and lots of paperwork. There are vehicle history reports, maintenance records, warranty documentation, odometer disclosure, bill of sale for the truck, and the title of course. It may take you some time to gather all of this paperwork, and you may have to even visit the DMV to get it altogether. Some of the paperwork may vary depending on the type of truck you’re selling – a commercial truck will require complete Commercial Fleet Registration, and some classic trucks don’t require titles.

The most important documentation you will need is the title. It is hard to sell a truck without a title. It’s hard to sell any vehicle without a title, and in most cases it is illegal. If you have lost your title, you may need to go to the DMV to get a new one.

Where to sell your truck

One of the great things about the age we live in is that there are lots of options for achieving anything, including selling your truck. Thanks to the power of the internet, we no longer have to strictly rely on going to used car dealerships to offload our vehicle. Some of the more popular options are below:

Craigslist

Craigslist has a great online marketplace that is specific for selling vehicles. Thousands of vehicles are sold via Craigslist everywhere. But there are challenges and difficulties you will have to face if you decide to sell your truck on craigslist.

• The market is unregulated – you will have to handle security yourself.
• There are lots of scams on Craigslist.
• Buyers are not always serious.

Truck Marketplaces

There are specific websites like TruckTrader which helps you reach serious buyers more easily. They have lots of tools for helping you to make the sell, but they make their money by charging you to post your ads. They are also rather slow, and there is no guarantee that you sell your truck.

Car Buyers

Selling directly to buyers is always a good choice. But buyers tend to be fickle and undervalue vehicles, as they are rarely experts. It’s also hard to sell non commercial trucks to individual buyers.

Junkyards

Junkyards are great options if your truck is truly on its last legs, and you don’t think you will be able to find a buyer. If you sell to a junkyard though, you need to be aware that you’re choosing to scrap your truck, which means you will get a scrap value for your truck. Junkyards often pay the lowest offer possible.

You can read more about places to sell your truck here!

Copart Direct is the Best Place to Sell Your Truck

Copart Direct is the best option. Copart Direct is a third party service that will give you a competitive cash offer for your truck. Typically, we will buy your truck and pick it up for cash within 24 hours. It is the best way to sell a truck, because it saves you time and energy, which means its saving you money. 

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