416exmx
02-27-2007, 04:52 PM
Last week I bought an 05 39' dump trailer form a guy 7hrs away. I saw 4 pictures of the trailer and all the pictures looked good with the exception of a dent in the drivers side of the trailer (the pictures were taked from prolly 40' away). It looked like you just put your shoulder into the side of it and made a little wave. So I talked to the guy for a while and he never mentioned the dent. So I asked him if there was a dent in it and he said "oh yeah, there is a little one". He explained about how it happened and so on. He said a wheel loader had bumped it one time while loading. I told him I could live with that dent and asked him if there was any other dents or anything else I need to know about the trailer. He said no. I asked him several times if the trailer had been rolled, wrecked, rebuilt, any work done to it and if it had a clear title. He said yes every time I ask. He assured it was a good trailer. I wired him the money down and sent one of my drivers down after it the next day.
My driver (who knows nothing about dump trailers) gets back with it that night. I look at it and I can instantly tell its been wrecked and rebuilt. I call the guy I bought it from and he said he had no idea it had been wrecked and said he would give my money back. I told him fair enough and I would pull it in the shop the next day and look it all over good and call him back. I get to lookin it over the next day and yes it had deffinatly been wrecked. It had over a dozen big dents/waves, it was tweaked and twisted super bad, has several cracks re-welded and last but not least has a slavage title. I got ahold of the original owner of the trailer and he said yes it had been totaled. I call the guy I bought it from back and he says he decided it was my baby and for me to rock it to sleep. He said I wasnt gettin my money back.
The title is a TN title and from what I understand even thought it is a salvaged trailer, the title will not show it as being salvage. It is some sort of crazy TN law that if the trailer weighs over 9,000lbs it will always have a cleat title. The guy lied to me and mis-represented the trailer. He KNEW it had been totaled and rebuilt. He was the one that rebuilt it. Also this guy never put the title in his name. It is still in the guys name who the bought it from. He sold it with an open title and there is another no-no.
Soooo, all you law students out there, what should I do?
My driver (who knows nothing about dump trailers) gets back with it that night. I look at it and I can instantly tell its been wrecked and rebuilt. I call the guy I bought it from and he said he had no idea it had been wrecked and said he would give my money back. I told him fair enough and I would pull it in the shop the next day and look it all over good and call him back. I get to lookin it over the next day and yes it had deffinatly been wrecked. It had over a dozen big dents/waves, it was tweaked and twisted super bad, has several cracks re-welded and last but not least has a slavage title. I got ahold of the original owner of the trailer and he said yes it had been totaled. I call the guy I bought it from back and he says he decided it was my baby and for me to rock it to sleep. He said I wasnt gettin my money back.
The title is a TN title and from what I understand even thought it is a salvaged trailer, the title will not show it as being salvage. It is some sort of crazy TN law that if the trailer weighs over 9,000lbs it will always have a cleat title. The guy lied to me and mis-represented the trailer. He KNEW it had been totaled and rebuilt. He was the one that rebuilt it. Also this guy never put the title in his name. It is still in the guys name who the bought it from. He sold it with an open title and there is another no-no.
Soooo, all you law students out there, what should I do?