If you are trying to keep cost down I would suggest something like a freightliner M2 or an older FL80. 300 hp, 860 ft.lbs. It all depends on waht you want to carry and how big of a box you want. I'd steer clear from a box truck unless you can find a half decent automatic one. It would suck to go on a VACATION and have to worry about shifting through 12 or 18 gears. I know a guy in Kentucky that found one. Had fairly low mileage, and it was automatic. He ordered his box from some place called Morgan (Morgan boxes, or truck boxes, i guess, not exactly sure). He got his storage compartments off an old prevost from a scrap yard. Those are really the main things, when you find stuff like that you can figure out tank placement and other large item arrangements. By the end that guy had spent around $40,000 for a very decent rig.
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