Father passed away what to do with his truck? PLEASE HELP

Please HELP!

My dad recently passed away. He was a truckdriver who leased to own his truck from his company.

His truck is a 2007 Freightliner Century 550 HP and it has 1 million miles.

2 months ago he purchased brand new tires for $3000. He also rebuild the engine head and paid around $8000-$10 000 to have the engine head rebuilt. Esentially he put in all of his savings into this truck right before he died and he worked hard for his truck.

There is about $10 000 left on the truck to pay it off. The company said i can pay it off and they will send a title in my name. In order to pay it off i would have to borrow $5000 from my cousin who said he would let me borrow the money and i would pay the rest of with with my life savings..

Problem is i dont know what to do.

All the trucks with that age make model and millage are selling for $20 000-$24000 so i was thinking i could sell it and recoupe some money that i paid for his funeral (his funeral was $6000 and i had to pay out of my packet as i am the only son and he had invested all the money into this tuck). Most of his truckdriver friends that i talk to say that the truck is worth about $13000-$15 000 and it would be hard to sell even for that money which blows my mind since when i look at trucks for sale on internet they are going for $20-25k and dont even have new tires. If i try to sell the truck for $19 000 one would think it would be very easy to sell but many of them are saying it would be hard to sell as not many people are looking to buy trucks currently due to work being slow or something.

Some people are saying pay it off and hire a driver but honestly i already have one business so i cant put alot of time and effort into looking for drivers and dealing with the hassle that comes with owning a truck. Not to mention i dont know anything about trucking so i am not sure that would be a good idea.

Some people are saying just leave the truck to the company. You dont know anything about trucks the truck is not worth much more then its payoff amount (this still blows my mind) and who knows how long it will take to sell. You would be spending all of your life savings on the truck and it will be hard for you to sell it since you dont know anything about trucks. Not to mention i would be $5000 in debt to my cousin. This would be the easiest option but he put in alot of hard work and money into this truck and i already spend more than half of my life savings on his funeral so it would be nice to recoupe some money.

Please give me advice on what to do the company is asking me to make a decision soon and everyone i ask for advice tells me something different.
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Thanks for reply Chinatown.

The truck is currently at his company office and i am sure they would not be too happy about me taking off the tires right before i return the truck to them. I am not really sure that is worth the trouble or would be ethical to do . Even if i wanted to do it I dont have his old tires to put back on the truck and it seems like it would be alot of work just to make $500-$1000 selling them.

What i really find hard to understand is why would it be so hard to sell a truck that has Brand new tires ($3000 worth) and rebuilt engine head ($8000 worth of work) for $18 000- $19 000 when all the trucks with same milage make and model are going for $20 000 to $25 000 on the internet.

You would think most truck driver or companies would jump at this deal. I am so confused.