[TerraSerenity]

I have been doing some thinking about Cab Overs. I now run a 1994 Ford 350 Diesel Turbo Dully with 2 extra leaf springs. I mainly do dry stack stone and Larger tree plantings. Problem is 1) I want a Dump, 2) I need more power to get up hills. Keeping in mind this is my second biz on Mondays. When I'm not running my Motorcycle Business throw out the week, Sundays work on the our horse farm.

So I have started with with the Dump Trailer idea- then realized that my truck has no Balls to bull a 4,000 pound trailer with a New Holland 665 in the back. But love the Cheap insurance $00.00

So then I figured I'd look into a Full Size single axel, ie International w/a dt466, Ford f750, GMC Top Kicks class 6 26,000 gvw(under CDL). Once I started looking I realized most of the trucks have pushed snow and ave more salt damage then I would hope for. So on to Truck trader, Craigs list, Ebay, Truck paper and now Oodle.A full size dump truck like this sure seems like it would do the job just well. But Parking, small jobs, fuel cost, operational cost, insurance and just darn getting any thing in and out of the bed made me wonder is this the right choose. Bus at least is seems like it would make up for it in the pulling power.

So my buddy has always talked about the Cab overs- make sense to me- easy to get in out of small areas, Just as nice to unload equipment as a dump trailer, Killer on MPG. But I too wonder how great they are to pull load plus move a skid steer- so those who have them- what is slow ? going up a hill- bad enough to have to put the hazards on or just a bit slower then a full dump? I just can't keeping doing 25-30 on big hills with my Ford-gets old with a string of traffic behind you.

Any one running the Volvo FE- Pro's Cons over the Isuzu- I'm look at both the 1992 Volvo FE (CDL) 27000GVW has 300,000 k asking $15 and the 2000 Isuzu 12 bed 135,000 miles 15k.w/tool box all the way throw along with side mount tool box. The Volvo seems to be fitted better, The Isuzu seems to be like a AM radio station.-Or Heck maybe I'll just wait till the next truck auction and pick up a Top Kick with rust and just call it a day for less then $4000?
What do the Pro's say?