Sell My Truck: How to Sell a Truck Online, Fast and for a Fair Price

You have got a truck to sell. Maybe you are a dealer with stock to shift, maybe you are an owner-operator upgrading the fleet, or maybe you have just got one rigid sat in the yard doing nothing but depreciating. Either way, the thought is the same: “I need to sell my truck, quickly, and for a fair price, without the hassle.”

The good news is that selling a truck online is faster and simpler than it has ever been, as long as you put it in front of the right people. Here is how to do it properly.

Why sell your truck online?

The days of a card in the window and a line in the local paper are long gone. Truck buyers, dealers, operators, owner-drivers, are online, searching for their next vehicle right now. Selling online is how you reach them.

Done right, selling a truck online means:

• Reach. Your truck seen by thousands of active buyers, not just whoever drives past the yard.
• Speed. The right buyer can find your truck the day it goes live.
• A fair price. More buyers seeing it means proper competition, instead of one lowballer knowing they are the only one interested.
• No auction fees. Keep the full value instead of handing a slice to an auction house at both ends.

The only thing that has ever made online selling hard is reach, getting your truck in front of enough of the right buyers. Solve that, and selling online beats every other method.

Sell my truck near me, or sell it nationally?

A lot of people start by searching “sell my truck near me”, and there is sense in selling locally, a buyer can come and view, and collection is easy. But limiting yourself to local buyers limits your price.

A truck is a serious purchase, and buyers will travel for the right one. List nationally and you are not waiting for a local buyer to happen to want exactly what you have got, you are reaching every buyer in the country who does. That is how you sell faster and for more. The best of both worlds is a national listing that still shows buyers where the truck is, so the local ones can come and look and the rest know it is worth the trip.

How to sell your truck online, step by step

1. Know what it is worth. Be realistic. Check what similar trucks, same age, mileage and spec, are actually up for. Price it fairly and it sells. Price it on hope and it sits.

2. Clean it and sort the obvious. A washed, tidy truck photographs better and sells faster. Fix the cheap, obvious niggles that give a buyer an excuse to haggle.

3. Take good photos. In daylight, all sides, the cab, the mileage, the engine, the bed or body, and the tyres. Photograph any faults honestly, it saves wasted viewings and gets you buyers who turn up ready to deal.

4. Write a full, honest description. Make, model, year, mileage, MOT, spec, service history, any faults. The more complete it is, the fewer time-wasters you deal with.

5. List it where the buyers are. This is the part that actually sells the truck. Put it in front of a ready audience of commercial vehicle buyers.

Sell your truck on Plant And Tractor Trader, £150 + VAT

This is where we make it simple.

List your truck on Plant And Tractor Trader for a one-off £150 + VAT, and it stays live for a full 12 weeks. One truck, one flat price, no commission, no auction fees, no percentage of the sale. You keep every penny the truck sells for.

Your listing goes in front of our audience of around 30,000 monthly visitors, 15,000 email subscribers and 35,000 social followers, plant hire firms, hauliers, dealers, owner-operators and commercial buyers actively looking for their next vehicle. Rigids, tippers, tractor units, grab lorries, beavertails and everything in between.

Twelve weeks is long enough to sell properly, without the pressure of an auction clock or the drip of monthly fees. It goes up, the buyers see it, and you deal direct.

List your truck for £150 + VAT →

Perfect for dealers and one-off sellers alike

It does not matter whether you sell trucks for a living or you are shifting a single vehicle.

Dealers get their stock in front of a national buying audience for a flat, predictable cost per truck, no juggling ad budgets or bidding against bigger firms for clicks. One-off sellers, the owner-operator, the firm selling a surplus vehicle, the estate clearing a truck, get exactly the same reach for the same simple price, without needing a trade account or an ad campaign.

One truck or a yard full, the deal is the same: £150 + VAT, 12 weeks, in front of the buyers.

Ready to sell your truck?

Stop letting it sit in the yard losing value. Get it online, in front of the people who actually want to buy it.

List your truck now for £150 + VAT, or take a look at the trucks and commercials already for sale to see the kind of company your vehicle will be keeping.

Browse everything currently listed on Plant And Tractor Trader, or get your own truck in front of thousands of buyers today.