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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brsims, post: 8874318, member: 32079&quot;]This is similar to what I&#039;m hoping for. An Non-DPF engine with a recent (if undocumented) in-frame?&nbsp; For half the cost of a more modern, lower mileage truck?&nbsp; Heck, less than a brand new Subaru?&nbsp; If this is true, God is smiling on me!</p><p><br /></p><p>Gimme a couple of years to stack some savings and prove myself as a business man, and watch me SOAR!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A paid off, reliable truck sets me up well ahead of the lease-purchase and first time new truck buyers.&nbsp; Brings my cost per mile for operation right down right quick.&nbsp; No weekly $1,450 truck note for a wire out former company truck for me, no sir!</p><p><br /></p><p>Also let&#039;s me be far pickier about what I&#039;ll haul, and what rate I&#039;ll run for.&nbsp; I despise cheap freight (always more of a PITA than its worth), and the term &quot;backhaul&quot; doesn&#039;t exist in my lexicon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I expect to bust some serious tail over the next five to ten years.&nbsp; Won&#039;t actually be any different than what I do now, just more stress and more reward.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t get me wrong. I LIKE my company.&nbsp; I have a comfortable lifestyle, and I make better than average money for a company driver.&nbsp; I work as hard as I want (hard enough to make my dispatcher concerned at times) and take time off when I want for as long as I want.&nbsp; But I&#039;m tired of the maintenance program not meeting my standards, and I&#039;m tired of the &quot;Truck most always be loaded, even of we lose money in the load&quot; mentality.&nbsp; I want the freedom to maintain MY truck to MY standards without having to beg permission from some desk jockey, and the option to bounce to a better paying lane without losing a day for some jacked up load that costs more to haul than it pays.</p><p><br /></p><p>I work the Rust Belt area down to TN, with a bit of WI, NE, and very rarely some NY State thrown in.&nbsp; I&#039;m very rarely more than 200 miles from decent freight at the most extreme of more normal range.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see the point of taking a crud load I (or in this case the company) ends up PAYING to move, when it is cheaper to run empty and enjoy the bump in fuel mileage to grab the next actually profitable load.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I&#039;m thinking this all wrong. Only time will tell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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