Anybody towing with a late model gasser?

Mr.Beebo wrote:

sacmarata wrote:


Interview 100 cattle farmers and ask the same thing.

The preponderance of evidence will show that guys who depend on their rig to make them money use diesels.
It's not a p!$$!ng contest, it's just how things are.

So far you've convinced yourself.

My neighbor not 2000 yards from my front door transports his cattle with his Dodge Ram gas motor and does fine with it.
My concrete sub contractor has 5 vehicles in his fleet-4 big block Chevies and one Duramax. He's paying to have the headgasket and injectors replaced on the Dmax and then he is selling it.
I make my living hauling tractors, skid steers, vehicles, scrap iron and assorted heavy equipment. That is every week. I'll pull a camper a half dozen times a year. You have heard from folks here first hand who use gas motors in the 3/4 and 1 tons and enjoy it. First hand accounts.
God bless the diesel owners, but it would appear the numerous posters who own gas trucks do not share in the reality of your world.

EXACTLY what I was talking about. The exceptions suddenly become the rule.
It's not a mentality thing. It's not the reality of MY world...it's simply reality that the transportation industry use diesel instead of gas for a reason and the University of Michigan study illustrates why.

Of course theres folks that can speak up and give examples of being perfectly happy with their gas and folks who have switched from diesel to gas...I don't live under a rock. Those stories are out there just like the OPs story of a $10,000 diesel repair are out there...BUT THOSE ARE THE EXCEPTIONS.

When someone is asking for advice on what to do why in the world would anyone take the exception to the norm and recommend it to someone who is genuinly wanting to know "what works best?"

The OP said he's going to be hauling 13klbs. Do you REALLY want to recommend a gas truck to him?