Medium Duty Trucks are basically any type of truck that is designed for traveling long distances. These are often referred to as commercial trucks, international trucks, freightliner trucks, cargo trucks, flatbed trucks or even just business trucks. Essentially, they offer you a medium duty vehicle that you can use for hauling things, towing something or for transferring goods. Below, you’ll find some different varieties of medium duty trucks and also what they are used for and things that you should consider when you are shopping for one.
Flatbed trucks
Medium duty trucks are often flatbed trucks. These are trucks that offer you a high quality and durable vehicle that has a flatbed attached to the rear. Flatbeds are often useful for businesses that need to load things onto a truck but a regular size truck will not be efficient enough. Instead, the business may need more room, such as when they need to attach an entire shipping container onto a truck. Flatbed trucks are exactly what you want to use for this type of transfer. You can simply load the shipping container onto the rear of the truck and it can take it anywhere that you need to go.
Freightliner trucks
A freightliner truck is basically any type of business class truck that is designed to transfer freight. These can be similar to flatbed trucks, or they can be a freightliner truck that already has a large container attached to the rear of the truck. This way, you simply load the freight into the large container of the truck. Other freightliner business class trucks allow you to attach a container in a towable type fashion to the rear of the vehicle.
International trucks
An international truck is a medium duty truck that is designed to travel internationally. These can be useful if you need to travel large distances and you also need to tow or haul things on your way. These trucks are typically sold for reasonable prices and they allow you to use them for your commercial needs.
When you are shopping for any type of medium duty truck, you need to take the mileage, price and condition of the vehicle into consideration. It’s always a good idea to request a Carfax from the people that you are buying the truck from. Carfax reports give you information on accident history. This can be useful to know how good a condition the truck is in. Most often, trucks that have been in accidents have mechanical problems that will act up and cause issue for you when you are traveling. These are the truck you want to avoid and you can do so easily by always requesting a Carfax report. Also take the mileage and price of the car into consideration. If a truck has lot of miles, the price should be lower than other vehicles. Additionally, if the truck is older, the price should be lower as well. Take a good look at the tires of the vehicle and know whether or not they are in good condition. A truck that would be a good buy is one where the tires have been recently replaced.