Every used-truck conversation starts with the odometer, and it is the least reliable number in the deal — not because it is faked (though it sometimes is), but because the same figure means completely different things on different trucks. A heavy diesel is engineered to run past a million kilometres in the right duty cycle. Here is how to read mileage the way fleet buyers do.
The mileage bands, honestly
| Odometer | Highway line-haul | Regional / site work |
|---|---|---|
| Under 300,000 km | Barely run in — premium price | Check hard: low km + hard duty ages fast |