What truck are you running for junk removal?
Time to upgrade from my 2009 F-150. It's not built for pulling a loaded 7x14 dump trailer every day and the brakes are letting me know lol. Looking at 3/4 ton trucks, F-250, Silverado 2500 or Ram 2500, budget around 35k used. Gas or diesel for mostly local jobs and dump runs? What are yall running and would you buy it again?
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F-250 with the 6.2 gas. Diesel is nice but on a used one the repairs and DEF will eat you alive. Gas motor is cheaper to fix and it pulls my loaded 7x14 fine around town
Ram 2500 Cummins, 260k miles and still going. If you do a lot of highway miles to the landfill diesel all day
Whatever you buy make sure the trailer brakes work and get a good brake controller. And watch your weights, truck and trailer together over 26,000 lbs and you could be in CDL territory depending on your state. Seen guys get pulled over at the scale by the transfer station
We run a Silverado 2500 and a 16ft box truck. Honestly the box truck does more volume per trip and customers think you're a proper company. Truck and trailer is still better for heavy stuff like concrete, dirt and roofing shingles
Buy the one with the best maintenance records not the best brand. Every brand makes lemons
