There's a pretty lengthy story behind the truck, but I won't bore you with all the details. Essentially the owner and his wife bought it for their son-in-law to join the business in early 1999. Well, as things sometimes work out, he's no longer their son-in-law. The truck sat for almost a year before they decided to sell it, hence the low miles.
There loss was definitely my gain. I paid 30K for it and the owner told me after I bought it that he paid over $60K for the truck and dump box installation. He even painted it red to match his Peterbilt dumptruck. The box is a 10' steel workman and it's one stout dump box. Even after their son-in-law pushed on the tailgate with their 320 cat to get it out of the mud, the box still holds water.
The tare on the truck is just shy of 15,000 lbs, but I rarely pull out of the pit over 30,000 lbs. I'd haul more if I could, but the short box makes it difficult to get enough weight on the front axle. About the only time I get close to the 34,000 is when I've got a backhoe on the trailer.
