OH BULL ROAR !!!!! Only a complete IDIOT who runs a scrapyard would be paying THAT INANE AMOUNT for steel scrap. Current price for most of the US is SIX CENTS PER POUND. Your D-800's would weigh maybe 13,000 pounds each, your pickup 4500, for a CW of 30,500 pounds, and at 6 cents a pound, I calculate $1830. Were you standing on the scales when the guy weighed your trucks?
Scrap prices are very volatile they can double or even triple over night then go down to 10% just as quickly
Local steel prices have gone through the roof since the pandemic hit imports & local companies had to get castings made locally again.
Even then, when a foundry is 1 ton short for a melt then they will pay big money for that ton that next day they would not.
Albert Sims ( Sims Metal founder worked that out very quickly so would buy at the bottom price & just stockpile till the price was high.
Then when the price was very high, use those profits to buy the land the yards were on so he could buy for several years without have to make any sales to pay the rent.
Then when windfall profits happened the uneducated pauper did what Princeton graduates can not do, bought into industries that had nothing to do with scrap metal and mostly had flucuating cycles that were not in sync with the scrap prices , thus withing 40 years he had a worldwide empire that owned more than 200 companies from womens underwear through to radio stations & railway lines .When taken over , the pHd level executives could not manage to do what he did so had to sell off everything that was not part of the core business and even then they made a pigs breakfast of it .
However at those prices I would guess that the scrapyard had some pickers looking for those vehicles or parts for those vehicles.
No one who worked in the scrap yard ever ought any parts for their cars, they just found some in the cars waiting to be shredded .
In fact we never bought petrol for the work vehicles , it all came from the tanks of the wrecks, same for batteries.
