Business Dilema

Well have you checked the value of the IH?

 

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I would be doing my darndest to make my $80k truck with a fresh rebuild work for me, but if I couldn't do it, I would try selling it and buying a cheaper, older truck...... Like 1999 and older.

 

Have you considered selling truck outright to one of those heavyhaul companies? They should know the value of the heavy speced truck for their operation.

 

Yep you can shed some weight there. Get rid of the moose bumper, Get rid of all the hydraulics and change the front tires to 11r's, all to shed weight.

So you would save probably 300 lbs or so on the front tires. 2-300 pounds on the bumper, depending on the size of your hydraulic tank I would say in the range of 6-700 pounds. Hydraulic oil itself is 7.2 pounds per gallon and I am assuming that you have at least a 60 gallon tank. There is also weight in the lines and PTO that can be removed.

The other thing to look at is the fuel tanks. There is really no need to carry 300 gallons of fuel. I only carry 180 or so and that is enough to easily last me a full day of driving and I pull heavy loads 95% of the time. If you are going to Tacoma you are going to be limited to 105,500 gross anyhow. I just fuel when I stop or before I start in the morning. Changing the tanks to smaller ones is an option.

 

My truck has 300 gallon capacity. I constantly switched dry van trailers. Drop/hook etc. I almost never filled my tanks to avoid an over gross problem.
I would normally be under half capacity when I delivered, because I never knew in advance what the next load would weigh.