Transportation contracts - Am I missing something - help plz :D

[Teff]

Ok, so I have a skid steer with a fork lift attachment but I need to transport the skid steer to pick up the pallets for the contract and transport the pallets to the destination. There are no options to lease equipment with the transport contracts. So I figure the easiest way must be to lease a truck, dolly and the vehicle transport trailer (and just try and use this to transport the pallets too) - Hang on....to lease all this equipment will cost me $12,000 but the transport contracts are all like $300-$1,000. Am I missing something? Is there a better way to deal with these transport contracts? Help please.

[JPSGT40]

If you have a front loader on 1 of your tractors, or a telehandler, or a forklift, or a skidsteer loader...
Just drive it around the map. There's no penalty for driving any kind of equipement/vehicles anywhere on the map.

[Ydyp]

I just wish those transport contracts would give you goods you can pick up by hand and drop them in the back of you vehicle. Or transport them on foot. As now they are not paying you enough for the effort it takes to get those organised.

But transport contracts are not the only one that needs a balancing pass, especialy with the costs of leasing and buying extra (seeds/fertilizer) from the store. Only contracts now these days I accept are harvesting, plowing and cultivating. And I prioritize those in the order I wrote them down.

[SlingBlade]

There is a mod called something like "Lift heavy objects" floating out there on the internet. It lets you pick up pallets and throw them in the truck by hand without having to use a tow-motor. It also works for when you flip a tractor or piece of equipment and want to pick it up and flip it back on it's wheels... Not very realistic for those who are after pure realism, but for those who ike to do the transport missions and not hassle with a loader// tow-motor, and for those who don't like to reset vehicles and lose all their fuel, quite a convenient mod to have.