How Long Does a Used RAM 3500 Take to Sell?

Real days-on-lot from 1,348 retail sales at independent dealerships, broken out by model year and measured against the heavy-duty pickups it competes with.

Sales window: Jan 2024 – Sep 2026 Sample: 1,348 sales Updated monthly
Short answer

Half of all used RAM 3500s sell within 56 days, against an all-vehicle median of 38 days — that is 18 days slower than the typical vehicle on an independent lot. Among heavy-duty pickups it ranks 7 of 8 for turn speed. A quarter move in under 27 days and a quarter take more than 104 — that spread is the part worth planning around.

56
days on lot
median
27–104
middle half
sells in
1,348
sales in
the sample
62,205
average
miles

By model year

Age and turn time are not the straight line most dealers assume. The 2016 moves fastest at 34 days, while the 2025 sits for 72.5.

Model year Median days Sales Avg miles
2025 RAM 3500 72.5 120 1,173
2024 RAM 3500 57 306 7,591
2022 RAM 3500 59 115 66,467
2021 RAM 3500 69.5 88 91,439
2020 RAM 3500 42.5 60 100,206
2019 RAM 3500 45 72 96,139
2018 RAM 3500 53 111 107,109
2017 RAM 3500 42 51 100,844
2016 RAM 3500 34 50 114,413
2015 RAM 3500 44 47 122,252

Model years with at least 40 recorded sales. Days on lot is the calendar gap between inventory entry and sale date.

Against the heavy-duty pickups it competes with

Average days on lot, sales since January 2024. Shorter is better. Minimum 150 sales per model.

Methodology

Days on lot is the number of calendar days between a vehicle being added to a dealership's inventory and its recorded sale date. That clock starts at intake, so on units that need work it includes reconditioning time. We exclude vehicles with no entry date, sales recorded before the entry date, and anything over 730 days — those are data-entry artifacts, not slow-moving inventory.

We report the median, not the average. Turn time has a long right tail: a handful of units that sit for a year or more drag the mean well above what a normal car does. Across every vehicle we track, the mean is 66.7 days while the median is 38. The median answers the question a dealer is actually asking, and the quartiles show the spread around it.

These figures come from aggregated, de-identified activity across independent dealerships that use AutoRaptor. We report only totals across many dealerships, never an individual dealership's results. No customer records, buyer information or dealership names are included.

We publish a model only at 150 or more sales, and a model year only at 40 or more. We do not publish gross profit figures, because the price fields in our data are incomplete and any margin we reported would be wrong.

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