OK - dumb question. Why does an apparently good truck get stripped down to cab and frame and maybe frame only. Obviously could be a blown engine, or tranny and too much cost -vs- value of truck. Or maybe not enough logs to justify using an off road truck, or the haul will only utilize highway trucks and so on. But, is there essentially no market for these trucks, or just too old, cracked frames and so on??
Well, I am sure that there could be many reasons, but I suspect that the stripped ones are organ donors to keep the runners running. The older they get the harder it is to source parts, so cannibalism becomes the order of the day.
I have a yard full of stripped Volvo A-35's that keep those with life left in them running. In a good economy, parts are bought, but when times are tough, like the 7 years following 2008, if a truck parked for long, it was soon missing parts to keep others going. Then they pass the point of no return where it would be too much money in parts all at one time to rebuild it, so it gets picked to a bare frame and then cut for scrap.