[PSUscaper]

the npr isn't going to pull anything better than a 1500 sierra. The engines run forever but they don't have much power.

If your thinking about pulling a trailer, get rid of the 1500's and get 2500/3500. 1500's have little value except costing you a lot of money in repair work doing jobs they really aren't meant for.

If you want to get materials like stone and soil, why would you even want to mess with a flat bed? Get a dump now. Why waste money on something that isn't really what you need. It would be nicer than a pickup, but a dump is the only way to go.

Is the new trailer a dump trailer??? Maybe a new pickup and dump trailer would do the job very well. I ran a 2500 pickup with a dump trailer for about 4 years and had very good luck with that set up and found it very practical.

I also own a npr, 14,500 gvrw with a gas engine. I'm been very, very pleased with truck. I've owned the truck for 3 years now, and have worked the living daylights out of it. I haul 3-4 tons in it on a regular basis wheters its stone, soil, or block and pull my 864 bobcat with it. No real problems with the truck I have almost 36,000 miles on it and still on the first set of tires. Should get another year out of them. Its not the fastest truck, but it gets the job done. I also own a gmc 2500hd with the duramax and allison....the pickup is only 2 years old, does about 1/5 the amount of work, and has had 5 times the amount of problems.

I can not wait for toyota or someone to start making heavy pickups. I'm sick of the crap americans are building and would trade my gmc in a blink of an eye.

Also, don't get sucked into the diesel craze. Anyone do the math lately????? Diesel has been 50 cents plus more a gallon around here for almost a year now. Its simple math, you are not saving much over time with a diesel engine, so don't think you have to have one. Its funny how 'power hungry' everyone has become these days. Gas engines have been putting out more and more power these days and becoming more dependable. I don't know why everyone has to be able to drive up every hill at 75 miles an hour. A gas engine will get the job done. Besides that, most of the time a truck will fall apart before the diesel engine does anyway, so what is the point of having a motor last for 200k miles when the rest of the truck falls apart around it?