New opportunity, seeking advice.

I doubt it will make much of a difference unless it's heavy hill/mountain country. Consider making the extra pay for your maintenance fund as long as you have the option to return to your groove.

 

I would be very much concerned in winter months but if your truck is well maintained I might just do it anyway as long as you have a way to keep from freezing if the truck won't run and some emergency help isn't out of reach.

 

it will put more wear on the truck thats without question, but if you drive easy it will be fine, i did similar thing with a 99 379 with a series 60 i bought the truck with 930k on it and it lasted to the 1.2 million mark and i was running the pacific northwest at the same weight and loaded 85% of the time

 

I wouldn't worry about motor/drivetrain if you drive right. I would worry about bushings in the suspension and tires. If you have 14 ply tires on the steers they won't last long.

 

With an Atrain i was never over 10500 on my steers you cant gross every axle and stay under the 105500 limit

 

You're in a risky spot whether you take the job or not. getting towed 5 miles or 100 miles isn't going to be much more or less unpleasant. I would take the job, take it easy loaded, and try like heck to get some money saved up for that rebuild !

 

I would have thought the patch would have paid better than that. .20 is quite a bit but sounds like your going to be pulling a lot more for it. I would have to think about that real hard, is the routes going to be out in fields or on solid roads? There's also a lot to be said for being happy with what you do, and it sounds like your kind of happy where your at and with what your doing. Take it for what it's worth, I have read where there can be some major sitting and waiting sometimes up there, your not the only one up there!!, don't know if thats real thats just what I've read. Good luck to ya.