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Trying to find some Japanese used trucks to replace your old American ones, or just because you’re in the market for them? These remain top quality trucks, and there’s a great case to be made about importing them straight from the Japanese market.

Here are 5 reasons why.

#5: Trucks From Japan Go Further.

For years, Japanese trucks lagged behind American ones, at least in terms of consumer impressions, partly due to smart marketing and some truck failures from Japan.

But it’s not like that anymore – even Japanese trucks from a few years ago get better mileage than many American trucks.

#4: A Truck Coming Directly From Japan is Often in Top Shape.

If you order any of the Japanese used trucks on the market, you’ll find that overall, the maintenance standards of those trucks are much higher than in America.

Part of it is cultural, and part of it is due to infrastructure – cars are simply maintained better by their owners, overall, in Japan, and Japanese roads are more forgiving to trucks than American ones.

#3: The Deals in Japan Are More Exclusive.

Because of the way the American market works, dealers get big incentives to offer special prices on trucks – but it’s every dealer, in every state, everywhere. The orders come from the top. To get really original, hot deals at auction, you want to look completely outside the country.

#2: The Japanese Economy Hasn’t Been So Hot.

People forget that the Japanese economy has been struggling since 1990, and hasn’t really taken off the way everyone hoped it would. Sure, some sectors are still shining bright, but others aren’t doing so well.

These economic problems, while quite bad for the country as a whole, mean that prices on used trucks aren’t nearly as high as you think, even with shipping factored in.

#1: It’s Hard to Keep A Used Truck in Japan.

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