A few more questions.

Here's a couple flatbed 0/0's that can help you.
@blairandgretchen
@Nahbrown

 

Get ready to spend everything you make on that old truck. I ran an old truck for 10+ years. Truck was great, fun to drive, but it was a money pit. All old trucks are. Doesn't even matter if you're able and capable of doing the wrenching yourself. You're going to be buying a lot of pricey parts and your offtime will always be working on your truck.

Having been relegated to a company ride for the past few years and being in brand new trucks since that time - there's something to be said for never having to fix anything on these new trucks. I mean you just hop in and drive it every week. The shop services it every 25,000 miles other than that nothing. It gets over 9 mpg hauling some heavy ### reefer loads going through redlights every day. Good luck getting a meager 7 from your old truck on the open interstate, probably more like 6.

It's hard to compete in an old inefficient truck that needs new parts thrown at it all the time against trucks out here doing 9mpg, 10mpg or even better like it's nothing. I didn't even know this until the other day ago they adjust the clutch in this automated manual transmission by hooking a laptop underneath the dash and clicking on the computer, you can hear the truck itself adjusting the clutch. You won't adjust clutch like that on an older truck it's waste of time/money crawling underneath it. There's just so many ways new is better. Take that for what it's worth and good luck, you're gonna need it