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Cheaper to drive it with the price of fuel and transport. I'm sure it's up to $5 a mile now if not more (pre-covid and fuel prices it was about $4 a mile). Go PREPARED and drive it home. There's a large network of owners and people that know these trucks that you can rely on. Start a post asking for help with what kind of kit you should compile, and find a member near the truck where you can ship orders from Amazon, etc for tools, etc for the drive.
Contact Justin Whering in the Houston area. He can get anything registered in TX. He has contacts in the DMV. Look for some of his old posts - they always contain his phone number. His user name is "whering". Amazing guy I'm sure he can help.
problem is i dont even know if it will run, and i am 1100 miles awway. i cant take a 2 weeks to go get this truck.
I've never been on that lot, but Springtown is not an active base. But it could be a federal facility of some sort, I'm not sure. If no one here knows, I would call GP customer support. They will give you the contact info (I would take any info direct from GP with a grain of salt as they are just civilian help desk people and you may get a different answer each time you call). So get a point of contact and check with the local yard guy. He will tell you the days and hours open (critical info as some sites only allow pickup one day a week after lunch.....seriously) and he will tell you if there is any clearance required.
Cheaper to drive it, unless something breaks! It's a huge gamble, and not one I recommend... transport it, until you have had a chance to work on it and know what is wrong with it. When a motor pool unit gets the word to get rid of a truck, they go pick that problem truck at the back of the yard that is always broken. They also often get half way through a repair, decide it's not worth fixing, put it back together VERY poorly, and get rid of it.
I went through basically the same scenario with my truck. EUC came back in a fraction of the time I was planning. My truck was at a private lot, not even a Richie Bros. yard. The people at that lot were more than accommodating to hold it for a while as long as I communicated with them. Check your item release for local contact info and call them. I really considered transporting it myself with a F450 and a 9-ton tag trailer, but I found a towing company with a Landoll trailer that delivered shipping containers within 45 minutes of where my truck was at and they usually came back empty, so they were happy to get paid a little extra on the back haul, I just had to work with their schedule. Does not hurt to call around. I really wanted the adventure and planned to take a boat load of tools and stuff but in the end I would not have been prepared for the rodents that built a stinky wet nest in the heater box that I still haven’t got to the bottom of yet. It would have been a 350 mile ride with no heat in January from Ohio to Chicago. If anybody considers driving a LMTV off an auction lot, my .02 is go prepared with a medium tow bar and a light cord with 2 - 7 pin round male ends so a heavy wrecker can easily get you off the side of the road. (They should have the necessary air lines but consider them also)
FYI for anyone picking items up at Springtown. They only allow pick up mon-Wed 8am-2p. GP customer care did not have the correct days of operation but did give the contact for the site. Normally its on the release form but not this time so just some FYI
it was auctioned as a non runner....... so there is very logical reasons to not consider it worth the drive risk home. If it was auctioned as a runner.... then would agree with folk in the "drive it home" camp
