Real Reasonable Rigs

I agree, you would be just as well off with a suburban or subaru brat as you are with a shortbed truck--speaking purely of being reasonable. My personal favorite to laugh at is folks with a shortbed and toolbox.
 
I guess I fall into the unreasonable category with my truck. Dodge crew cab 6' bed with a tool box, lockable at that. I haul stuff that I don't care about getting wet. My 42s have rode back there, 3 different sets of axles and so on. The normal weekend for me is to have a cooler loaded down with fish and bait in the back. I keep my fishing rods and tools locked up in the tool box. I can ride up to four passengers and camping gear in air conditioned comfort all while pulling a boat and nobody chokes on the smell of fish all the way home. And no interior carpet to clean oil and cooler juice off of. Try that with a suburban.
 
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@Ron still thinks he can pull my trailer with his SWB Ford. I have offered - numerous times - to let him hitch it up and tow it around the block once. He has yet to put his money where his mouth is. Er.... his money where his cab corners used to be...? :flipoff2:
 
Hmm. Not sure this could ever be resolved, I think Joey started a pretty interesting thread. Bet 'reasonable will ping pong all over the place. Start with @Hurley with what reasonable means.
 
After two 2500 crew cab long bed trucks I am back in a "small" truck, a 1500 double cab short bed. While I do not miss the extra cab space, I do miss having a long bed. You just cannot fit that much stuff in a short box. Sure, the turning radius is better but people do not "fear" a small truck the way they do a land yacht!
 
braxton357 said:
This thread should just be pictures of stock 3/4 ton trucks.
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Yep, and therefore I won't even bother posting a picture of my bone stock 01 RAM since there are thousands of them still driving around.

I've got a quad cab, short bed. I don't use my truck for work, but use it a lot. Never once have I thought, "dang, if only it was a long bed".
 
I tow often with my ford, about 7-8K average, and it feels almost as stable as my old dodge dually.
My ONLY complaint, is that the GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LEFT LANE effect has gone away. There are just so many superduty trucks around seeing one on your ass has little to no scare power anymore. When you see a 2nd gen dodge in your mirror, you know its either a working man, a meth head, or some poor bastard trying to make it to a transmission shop and you move over.
 
jeepinmatt said:
I'm glad the 8ft bed gives a lot of you guys peace of mind. I have a 6.5ft bed WITH a toolbox! I went by the store and tried to get a loaf of bread the other day, but I had to call a friend with a long bed because I didn't have room for it.
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all these longbed lovers must be compensating for somthing........:flipoff2:
 
I don't need my truck to carry more than I can work on in any two week stretch. This weekend, my little 4 cyl S-10 pulled home from Lowes with 466 square feet of shingles, 6 sticks of interior trim, 10 bags of rubber mulch and pulled a trailer with 3- 10 foot 2x6's, 13 pieces of 12 foot D5 siding, 10 pieces of J-channel and all the hardware and nails to install it all. The shingles and mulch did give it a bit of "Carolina Squat"

If the weather ever clears up, I'll be putting shingles on a playhouse and my storage building, trimming out windows and floor in the play house, building a bridge to a 12 foot tower that I hauled home from a friend's house to our deck, filling in the rubber mulch on the playground and painting the exterior of the playhouse. Then I need to finish the gable end of our house with the vinyl siding.
 
jeepinmatt said:
I'm glad the 8ft bed gives a lot of you guys peace of mind. I have a 6.5ft bed WITH a toolbox! I went by the store and tried to get a loaf of bread the other day, but I had to call a friend with a long bed because I didn't have room for it.
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Admittedly, I prefer the look of a short bed. But for work, I really need a long bed.

I'm just trying to look cool like @shawn
 
ManglerYJ said:
I don't need my truck to carry more than I can work on in any two week stretch. This weekend, my little 4 cyl S-10 pulled home from Lowes with 466 square feet of shingles, 6 sticks of interior trim, 10 bags of rubber mulch and pulled a trailer with 3- 10 foot 2x6's, 13 pieces of 12 foot D5 siding, 10 pieces of J-channel and all the hardware and nails to install it all. The shingles and mulch did give it a bit of "Carolina Squat"

If the weather ever clears up, I'll be putting shingles on a playhouse and my storage building, trimming out windows and floor in the play house, building a bridge to a 12 foot tower that I hauled home from a friend's house to our deck, filling in the rubber mulch on the playground and painting the exterior of the playhouse. Then I need to finish the gable end of our house with the vinyl siding.
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Proves my point that if you are going to do a project that would require filling up a longbed you will be hauling a trailer anyway to carry the rest of the stuff to go along with all that plywood you can close the tailgat with.

@shawn Ive pulled several campers and have yet to crush my cab corners. Take that for infallable truth and you have to live with it. :flipoff2: haha
 
Jeez... It all depends on what you use the truck for... Isn't that the great thing about trucks? Personally I like my short bed because I use a trailer to haul anything more than I can fit. Otherwise, the dogs/tools/luggage ride there and everything else goes in the trailer... Cab seats six... As long as someone doesn't mind getting a little personal between the legs as I shift, and I still get good gas mileage...2008 ram 2500 CTD quad...
 
drkelly said:
Never once have I thought, "dang, if only it was a long bed".
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Exactly!! Except for once when I transported a 15' sailboat in the bed. With the 6' bed and tailgate down I was 7' off the back. With an 8' bed I would have been 5' out the back. Luckily I didn't have far to go lol.
 
Yesterday at lunch, my step-daughter was showing pictures of the truck her boyfriend just bought. It's a 2008 crew cab GMC 2500 with the Duramax diesel, chipped and she thinks was the Allison transmission (she knew the Duramax for sure). He bought it with 200,000 miles on it and seemed pretty happy with how un-worn the seats look. She wouldn't tell us how much he spent on it, which tells me it was a LOT. I asked her what he will be pulling with it.....


She said, his 14 foot Jayco pop-up camper... perhaps a single jetski.
 
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