Id go visit Brian Spagnola before I bought a new one. You still may decide to buy new, but my guess is that he might help you with that too...
I do help people all the time get a better deal on a new one of any make.
And he's absolutely right. Truck prices have pretty much stayed about the same for the last few years. These trucks keep getting more and more expensive every year, driving the market on the pre owned ones. Sure you can spend 5-6k more on a truck and get a new one.
But, in order to get the truck that cheap you have to take the rebates. And if you take the rebates you don't get the good financing. So if I sell a 2017 Silverado for 40,000 and they put no money down. The payments would be $769 a month a 2.9% interest. That number includes TTL.
The same truck brand new at the standard rate of 5.9%, and a price of $45,000 the payments would be $931
So over 60 months you actually would pay $9720 more for the new truck.
With that being said we have bought 5 brand new Chevy's from Tony and Monte in the last 3 years.