LMTV registration in WA state

Ronmar said:

I had no gymnastics whatsoever in Port Angeles just a few months ago. Took under 10 minutes with the EUC paperwork from the auction for my 1079.... It will get registered as a "commercial vehicle, not for commercial use" and a 4 wheeler will have a max 26,000 GAVW... Not sure if they uprate a 6X, but i suspect they may not. they look up the vehicle model info(M1079, ect) from the EUC for that part, as well as the vehicle description

What truck are you looking at getting?

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rcamacho said:

Passively looking at 1079’s. They are generally hard to find and comparatively dearly priced.

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GeneralDisorder said:

Getting more expensive by the month it seems like. Paid $43k for my late A1R and recently 1078 A1R cargo's in good shape are fetching $65k. I would expect M1079's to be between $35k on the A0 side, to $75k on the later A1R side. And the extra money is worth every penny when you compare the two.

They aren't nearly as affordable BUT that's not to say they aren't still a "good deal"

My 2008 was $43k in 2021. Adjusted for inflation the original purchase price in 2021 was $276,000. So my purchase was ~15% of retail cost.

Today my truck at $75k would have an adjusted for inflation value of $324,881 and that's now ~23% of the retail cost.

So these are a decent investment having earned 8% more than their adjusted for inflation value over the last 4 years. They aren't making any more after about 2011 and surplus having dried up or been held back for Ukraine hasn't helped the prices any for us consumers.

So they are appreciating currently at the above rate. Will that continue? I think given the current political climate it might.... it looks like at least short term we might see some stagnation in oil prices due in part to lowering of demand from the worldwide EV expansion. Especially like China where consumer fuel demand is falling due to wide adoption of cheap EV's. Tarrifs may cool US imports leading to less shipping and trucking..... I suspect we won't get much below $3 but stagnation at 2019 fuel prices while everything else inflates..... it's not the $1 a gallon from the Clinton administration but if you ignore the taxes that have been lumped in the last 25 years it's not that far off actually.

All of us that get in now though will benefit HUGE in the coming years as the A1P2's enter surplus and the only use for the parts off them will largely be the trucks that all of us already own and the VAST majority of A1P2's will end up being scrapped or sold sans-cab due to the armor. Which means almost all of them are parts trucks.

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