Cost of ownership?

I am thinking about buying my first truck for our landscaping business. We want to buy a hooklift with a 16' box - CA of about 140". Our debate is whether to buy CDL or NON-CDL for our small company of 5 employees.

The debate is cost of ownership relative to increased payload capacity. A 26,000 gvw NON CDL will just meet our requirements of being able to carry around our 10,000lb machine in a box on a hooklift.

We could go CDL and get a better payload capacity for basically the same size truck but my question is this:- does a larger truck, say a 39,000 GVW, cost much more to run per mile than a 26,000GVW?

Does anyone have any MPG figures for each size of truck?

Thanks for any input.

[Alzado77]

Originally Posted by blander

I am thinking about buying my first truck for our landscaping business. We want to buy a hooklift with a 16' box - CA of about 140". Our debate is whether to buy CDL or NON-CDL for our small company of 5 employees.

The debate is cost of ownership relative to increased payload capacity. A 26,000 gvw NON CDL will just meet our requirements of being able to carry around our 10,000lb machine in a box on a hooklift.

We could go CDL and get a better payload capacity for basically the same size truck but my question is this:- does a larger truck, say a 39,000 GVW, cost much more to run per mile than a 26,000GVW?

Does anyone have any MPG figures for each size of truck?

Thanks for any input.

Check out the various manufactures websites. They probably post the MPG there. There are many variables that change fuel usage. Gears, weight, etc. Just try not too cry too much when you fill up a 100 gallons or more.

[Dirtball]

I would think the two biggest costs would be registeration fees and insurance fees.