Identify and Avoid High-Risk Trucks

buying that. Right. And there's a couple kinds of trucks that right out of the gate, I asked those even before I come out questions that are an automatic no for me. One of them is if it I was taught this by an oldtime mechanic when I was first buying dump trucks. He taught me this and I I held it over into uh pickup trucks. He said never buy a snowplow truck. Yep. And he said, "The reason why, and I learned it's true, is that the that salt gets into the undercarriage, it gets into the suspension system, it gets into the transmission lines, especially if they're a hard line. And what it'll do is it'll slowly rot everything out. And you're just buying somebody else's ticking time bomb." Yep. At that point, you said there was a truck you would never buy either. I probably wouldn't buy a tuned and deleted truck that's been hopped up and uh you know got a bunch of performance stuff done to it just because you never know if the guy was beating the crap out of it or just using it for extra work and it's just had a hard life with an extra 100 horsepower on top of it. Yeah. So now that's a we're talking about the difference between somebody's show truck that they're super proud of and a truck like this one that maybe somebody has gone in tuned up given the extra horsepower to and the thing when they what you're saying is when someone gives them that extra horsepower they want to use it. It's hard not to. It's hard not to. And that's not easy on these trucks. There's no sense in buying somebody else's problem. Of course, a lot goes to the person selling the truck. If they're the original owner and the dude's 70 years old and he babyed that truck for 20 years, just go buy it, right? And he took care of it and he tuned it to do preventative maintenance on it. He's got a small tune on it and you can tell he's not beating the crap out of it. You know, that's a different story. But you come up and there's black smoke near the