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I've thought about a small flat bead truck to get rid of the trailer but the trailer has a low deck height and a drop gate/ramp because even tho I load stone on with a forklift everything gets carried off by two people, one walking backwards, so the trailer has to have open sides (for loading) and we carry odd shapes so there is no way we could work with an enclosed trailer.
I suspect that fully loaded the trailer and cargo come to 4,000 to 5,000 pounds.
I've thought at times that an SUV like vehicle could work better but so far I haven't seen any that would do a better job towing.
As much as I don't like 4 wheel drive, we do use it, it helps alot in not ripping up peoples yards and we get a decent amount of snow, so although we never use it on the road, we do use the 4 wheel drive in peoples drive ways and yards.
Big annoyance is how high the bed height is on every single new truck out there, if there was a truck that had a lower bed height it would be my top choice on that alone.
Brakes are an issue, a set of brakes tends to last about 10,000 miles for us, just because once you get moving it takes a while to stop and we drive as much in town as we do on the highway so although it would be nice to just crawl along it's not practical and it gets factored in to the cost of driving.
As for how new... I would say 3 to 6 years old, showing up at a rich persons house in a vehicle that is ratty and they tend to stand around checking up on your more, making your day much longer, but it's a tool it's going to get used as a tool to do work, so buying brand new seems like a waste of money for something that is going to get dinged around a bit.
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