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Larry: I'm thinking a 24-28 ft enclosed steel trailer w/2700 lb car & lots of gear will be about 8500-9000 lbs. The empty weight is at least 4K if not more.

Joe: I'm a big believer in diesels, despite the extra cost involved. I looked into the cummins' since I have an opportunity to get one at a good price through my union. I figured let me just check on how cummins is doing with their new 6.7L that replaced the gold standard 5.9L. Holy cr*p! I almost fainted when I saw all the bad stuff on the internet about this motor. It's like the Ford 6.0L, & more specifically, like their interim 6.4L navistar nightmare all over again! There are class action lawsuits, people are pissed about never ending regen cycles, crappy mileage, check engine lights coming on constantly, going back to dealers 2, 3 & 4X a month. It goes on and on. I was really shocked.
Apparently, the diesel particulate filter, the EPA & diesel exhaust fluid are tools of the devil. There is an entire cottage industry springing up to circumvent the DPF & regen cycles by replacing the DPF with a test pipe & plugging a computer into the wiring harness which tells the ECM that all is well. Of course none of this is legal for the street, but the motors run great after that.
The only motors that haven't gotten alot of bad press on the internet are the Duramaxes. The verdict is still out on the new in-house Ford motor, too new, can't find any problems yet that anybody's posting.