Well I pulled the trigger on a truck

Truck has 12,000 pound front and 40,000 pound rear axles. the weights I will be primarily hauling which is my own equipment will be 25,000 pounds or less. Obviously if I get the belly dump or if I start hauling things for others the weights will likely go up. Heck for the first year I am considering registering the truck for 54,999 pounds to avoid 2290 tax because I seriously doubt I will ever be heavier than that in the beginning

 

You bring up a good point and I have thought about it. Is actually over $1000 once you figure in the difference in registration cost for the weight.

The thing is I bought this truck basically for the sole purpose of moving my own equipment around. I'm likely going to be welding some things on my trailer to make it better suited for my purposes and I don't know how well it will work for hauling other things once I am done with that.

The thought was to possibly use the truck to haul things for others when times are slow but I will likely need another trailer for that and buying one this year is not in the budget. Long Term registering for 80,000 is probably the plan but I don't think I will this first year