Good morning Jim!Sorry, I sort of laughed at your post. Took you longer than me to figure out this is a tough crowd. Remember, I'm still a noobie of about 20 months from birth to just a year since buying one. The folks here are truly being helpful, this is not some typical social media site where people just flap their gums and say dumb $#!%. Hang in here and you will thank yourself endlessly.Here's the deal - I'll rephrase some of my more nuanced remarks. You need to take time and you are doing so to learn enough to establish realistic expectations on what your reality is then build a prioritized checklist to start hunting for the coach that meets your needs and desires.My recommendation to continue extracting and utilizing the tremendous knowledge here. Start that list and have the discussion here focus on that. If you choose to participate, your checklist will represent a well thought out and vetted set of realistic requirements to bring your ideal purchase into laser focus.If I may, let me suggest of few to seed the list. Pursue as you wish. Maybe this is so obvious but I've no recollection of the topic of documentation. Personally, this item goes in the top three. Another is inspection by professional bus mechanic. Physically visit, thoroughly inspect, and drive the bus before committing your heart or mind.One other recommendation is work doggedly to keep the non-critical items on the "nice to have list". For example, I recollect you mentioning a 102" wide coach. Unless you have something you need inside that is 101" then it is not critical. Concentrate on the critical requirements in context to your realistic budget of a very modest coach. You can wait and get more but that is an entirely different discussion (i.e. NEVER call a used bus an "investment").Let me share a funny story. When I came here, I asked a lot of questions for a long time too. Not too long after the questions started, the peanut gallery started making reference to some other past potential bus owning nut. There were heckles about me being another "Bill", asking lots of questions then I assume either getting chased away or not buying a coach. Hummer.., maybe he is here, just did not seem likely based on the comments. Toward the end of the prepurchase period (6-7 months), there were cracks from the peanut gallery like "Just go buy one!" Well, that was reassuring in an ironic way as that indicated I had asked enough questions, learned enough, and was ready to pull out the checkbook.Here I am a year later post purchase and the 39MT starter post represent my very first time putting a wrench on my bus to repair something. Knock on wood and a pat on the back - I did my homework, took my time, and it paid off.
Is there a time of year when the transportation companies take delivery of new buses and trade in or sell their old ones?Jim