alright AB, I'm hanging around this site b/c I have brain fog from being up all night scouting and dispatching here in London . . . after 14 years in grounds maintenance business, I can say you can't afford a used truck! They are way more expensive than new! that's right, they're cheaper if all you count is the intial cost, but if you add up all true costs and benefits, and count the grief of an older truck, tons of lost business b/c of unhappy clients, poor performance, complete unreliability (remember, even the smallest problems like alternator and ww motor wiping out will STOP you from finishing your plow run for at least 3 hrs.!!), then used costs WAY more. Do you want to be a pseudo-mechanic or a professional grounds maintenance person? Then leave the constant mechanical tweaking and fiddling to qualified mechanics, and focus on your profession. A new truck has easy financing, and is almost as liquid as cash, so if times are tough and plowing does not work out, sell it! Want to be a pro and learn from pros, join SIMA and Landscape Ontario.