I've been driving trucks since right after I graduated High School, all kinds of single axle trucks, tandem axle trucks, single axle semi-tractors and trailers, drove 18-wheeler for 4-5 years too.
NO SUCH thing as a cheap truck, especially a farm truck. The cost to legally license and insure it puts them right into the Expensive category right away for the few weeks of use most of them get in a year.
With farmers being the way they are, I bet less than 25% of the ones that own trucks can tell you what the axle weight ratings are for their trucks and how heavy they are licensed for. Or what the maximum weight allowed on the different axles is, IE steering axle, single drive axle, tandem drive axle, and single or tandem trailer axles. So farmers feel a truck is loaded when the box is full, regardless what the truck can actually carry or it's licensed for.
A gravity box on a single axle cab/chassis is the cheapest way to haul corn, beans, oats, wheat, etc. No hoist or pto to mess with. Unloading will be different, but probably easier than a conventional farm truck with a rear dumping box/hoist.
Most smaller farm trucks with hydraulic or Juice brakes, it's getting harder and harder to keep the brakes working good. I'd suggest a truck with air brakes. Even the single axle trucks I drove for the township we had brake troubles on them after they were 4-5 years old, C-65 and F-750 trucks rated 32,000 gross. The local repair shop was two blocks away from the township building in a town of 100 people! The Chevy dealer was 4-5 miles away depending which way you drove to the next little town. 4 miles if you went on township roads, 5 miles on County blacktop roads.
I've never heard of anyone using a gravity box to haul crushed rock, sand, dirt, it would be for grain or ground feed only.
Spend a little more on the truck up front or it will be a MONEY PIT.
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