Confirmed. I work in the heart of the Alberta Oil patch. There have been stories of American companies coming up with a large transport truck and taking the whole lot of fleet trucks.
A truck a few years old would fleet sell for around $20k CAD, or roughly $14K US. Huge savings available to American markets. Also, with the weak state of the economy here, you're not likely to get someone to buy the whole stock at one time. Maybe a couple sales here and there.
Its not entirely true about idling trucks all day long. I'm sure there are many cases of this but where I work, it is highly discouraged to idle, especially with the gas trucks. I think a bigger thing is trucks being prematurely worn out from driving rough gravel, dirt, frost heaved, snow filled roads for their entire life. A truck with 100k kms is probably equivalent to a 200k km truck.
