NY 986: If you are talking about a goose neck trailer behind a pickup then I would say look at some thing else. If you think about 300-400 bushels behind a pickup truck that is severely over loading it. 300 bushels of corn is 16800 lbs. Then add the truck and trailer you very well could be over the 26,000 lbs mark. That gets you into the DOT sights. Plus they are real hard on pickup towing them. The ones with hoists where very popular around here in the mid 1970s. That only lasted a few years as guys found out they where tearing the pickups up.
A straight truck can be fine if you just have one that is in good shape. The age is not as much a factor as condition. Many of the older mid-sixties trucks look great and stop well. Just make sure the frames are not rotted out with salt.
Like I stated below the cost involved with owning any kind of truck/trailer for yourself is going to keep getting higher. The rules to be on the road more strict.
I would either have on farm storage that allows shipping out after harvest or buy the mid sized gravity wagons. Those under 400 bushels are not selling for that high of money. Then just have enough to load a semi with. You can hire it hauled in a semi much cheaper than you can do it yourself if you figure all of your costs.
So you can have 1200-1500 bushels of wagons for just about what a good straight truck would cost that would haul 300-400 bushels. Just use them as a grain bin on wheels.
Your harvest would go faster as they would hold 2-3 times what a straight truck or goose neck trailer would hold. Plus you are not waiting in line to unload the truck.
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