cost of trucks

jeremy in NE · Jan 2, 2009

Tossing around the idea of purchasing a truck to go with my combining. These guys pay to have it shipped anyway, but would it be worth it. Besides the cost of purchasing the truck what would I be looking at as a rough figure for insurance, fuel, tax and license, and general upkeep.

JT · Jan 2, 2009

What size of truck, how many miles do you plan on putting on it? You talking big truck or pickup size truck?
Jim

ddl · Jan 2, 2009

Truck, truck/trailer, maybe divulge a little more info such as when asking if a truck is worth something, tell us what they are asking. Plus something to think about - if they are shipping it for free maybe they'll knock some more off the truck than it costs to go get it. they have to be paying something and it adds up if there is an employee involved.

buickanddeere · Jan 2, 2009

Many times a person/family is better served with a van/small suv and a 3500lb 5X10 trailer.

rustyfarmall · Jan 2, 2009

The only way a truck would pay off is if it would keep the combine moving. Fuel, road tax, registration and licensing fees, insurance and maintenance will eat you alive, and we haven't even mentioned D.O.T. registration which is needed if you are hauling for hire.

thurlow · Jan 2, 2009

Probably gonna have to talk to your insurance agent and county court clert to get a good answer. Almost all the grain farmers around 'here' have bought their own trucks and haul to the river. If we're not doing custom work/only harvesting our own grain, we can get a license by-the-month, so it's only licensed for 3 or 4 months per year. There's still an almost-out-of-business local elevator where the small/part timers haul their grain in their old bob trucks.

dhermesc · Jan 2, 2009

The only way a truck would pay off is if it would keep the combine moving.

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I would agree 100%. Unless you're buying one thats 20 years or older and have the time to deal with breakdowns.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 2, 2009

Lots of good deals on trucks right now.

jeremy in NE · Jan 2, 2009

I was thinking a semi due to the fact that the minimum distance they ship is about 150 miles one way. How much grain can a tandem axle straight truck haul?

rustyfarmall · Jan 2, 2009

A tandem axle straight truck will handle about 500 bushels or so, but maybe not legally. If you're going to do it, might as well go whole hog right from the start.

dhermesc · Jan 2, 2009

Max weight you can put an axle is 26,000 pounds without an oversize overweight permit.

r4etired · Jan 2, 2009

We have guys hauling grain 30 miles for 8 cents a bushel. Haul 900bu and get 72 bucks and pay the driver for the hour and a half he sits in line to dump. They feel they have to do it to justify owning the truck.

Chris Jones · Jan 2, 2009

That makes me curious. What ever happened to painting "farm use only" on the back of an old straight truck and driving w/o a license? I seem to remember that being done a lot back in the 70's in VA. I think they had to stay within some may miles of the farm but seems they had exceptions for taking in produce/grain and picking up supplies. I guess there were still plenty of costs as I guess they had to have safety inspections, insurance--or maybe it was through general farm insurance like a tractor, property taxes etc.

RodinNS · Jan 2, 2009

Now there's a truck that would have made money sitting in the yard collecting rust...

There's no point owning a truck if there's people out there willing to work for that.

Rod

504-2 · Jan 2, 2009

Tandem straight truck can haul 52,000# gross. Semi 80,000# semi will weight around 30,000# empty.

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