Best pick-up truck/5 car trailer combination?

Hi there,

I've been driving with CDL for the past 5 years (semi-truck), reefer and regular and finally decided to start working for myself doing car transportation. I am looking at purchasing RAM 3500 and a 5-car trailer. I know that 3 will be a waste of time and 4 will not work for me either. I am going to drive long distance, 1000-1200 miles or so, and I need 5 car trailer for sure. I wanted to ask for an advice regarding truck/trailer combination. I am pretty sure that RAM 3500 will be the best in its category/price range since it can pull up to 30,000 lb, which will work with 5-car trailer. Which trailer would you recommend for 5 cars? People I know only use Kaufman and I've heard it is not the best quality. Any advice will be highly appreciated!

 

I am definitely not going to buy pre-owned truck. You never know what can go wrong and how much you will end up paying for repairs. Have many friends who bought used once and still working to just cover the debt.

 

Thanks, I've heard about this one. Will look further

 

So everyone else who is pulling 5 cars with a one ton pick up are just crazy suicidal people? Nice. And yes, I am worried about truck repairs. Two recent examples: one friend of mine had his single axle break after 2 months and had to pay 24,000$ for the engine, another one paid 18,000$ in repairs within the first 4 months. And all these money on top of truck payments, insurance, bills, etc. So yes, I want to pull 5 cars with a pick up in order to support my family instead of getting us all in debt with a used single axle truck.