On Jan 23, 1:22*pm, wrote:

If you simply want my opinion on what truck to buy, it would be a good,
clean, used low-mileage Ford F250 or F350, depending on need, crewcab
(or Excursion) of about 2001-02 vintage with the 7.3 Powerstroke. *There
are a lot of these up for sale, at least from Texas to Florida, as
"urban cowboys" have felt the pain at the pump.

Yeah, new trucks are outrageous. I bought my 97 F250 exactly this way,
though it was harder back then to find a good low-mileage used one.
I'm just up to about 100K miles on it now, hopefully I'll still have
it at 200K. With a heavy stock trailer, 4-low has pulled me through
some nasty stuff...

Jon.