Need HELP with long term storage for truck and trailer!

Hello all, I have a 99 freightliner classic with 6nz cat I bought a little over a year ago and it's been great. I love this truck. It and the trailer are both paid for. However business has fallen off for me (small time excavation company) and I've had to resort to driving for someone else moving equipment. I would love to do this for my self in the future but I just couldn't swing the for hire insurance and apportioned tag and all that to get started. Kinda ate into our savings trying to keep the dirt business alive which I now regret doing. My wife and I have been back and forth whether to sell the truck and trailer now or to park it (maybe use on occasion) and save our money up to get the for hire insurance and tag to start on our own. My main concern is leaving the truck parked for an extended period of time and trying to figure out if it's ok and what I need to do. Any help would be more than appreciated.

 

I'm down in MS about as cold as it gets here I'd say maybe a few days down to about 20-25 but out winters usually average about 35-40. The brakes are great that didn't even cross my mind to do that. Along with the batteries. The truck would be parked at my house where it is now and I was thinking I would crank it about every 3-4 weeks. If I don't do that though is there anything you could think of I would need to do for the motor?

 

Would I need to run it for a bit with that in the tanks to get it circulated in the motor? Also about how long would be "too long" for it to sit? I'm worried with it sitting some problems might arise with it. That could have been prevented from it not sitting.

 

Did he do anything special to the truck before he parked it or when he was getting ready to go back on the road?

 

Thank you very much! That's one of the reasons I don't really want to get rid of the truck it is my favorite and I am #### proud of it. Yeah it needs a little love here and there but it's only got 612K on the clock. I would like to get some shorter stacks on it though they find every single limb running down some 2 lane highway.