I always advise using what you have and build up as you build the business. You CANNOT predict the future except in the case of payments. Get a hitch and put a small trailer on that Grand Caravan. You'll be more efficient and designate a percentage of your income to the truck fund. There are always exceptions to everything - for instance I'd been using a 4'x8' trailer that was overloaded with 400 pound loads for about a year. I got a job for about 15 tons of auto scrap but it was about 30 miles to the scrap yard. Now, I financed an 18' dual axle car carrier and paid it with the money from that job. Amazingly, the bigger jobs started rolling in but I didn't have to worry about making the payments.
Plus; when you buy up, you can sell the little trailer - probably for what you paid for it. There'll always be somebody out there who's in the position you are now.
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