Scrapped 3 full-size school buses last week. Net weight of 48K #'s at $125/ton in Milwaukee. One bus was drive-able, the other two had to be towed about 50 miles. No profit yet, as I bought the buses to get some diesel engines for inventory, 2 Cummins and 1 Cat. I weighed the buses in (54K #'s) and weighed out with the engines, tires, etc. that I kept. I'm into the engines for about what I've been paying for cut-outs, which have been scarce due to the low metal prices.
Broke my heart to give away the 100-200 gallons of diesel fuel that was in the tanks but I had to take the buses directly to the processor, couldn't bring them here to pump the tanks down.
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