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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Broad statements about how truck owners rarely use these to capacity come across much like complaints that fancy kitchens are often owned by non-cooks who only order out.  They're ignorant judgements - useless noise.

Most of the guys I know drive with empty beds 85% of the time, but the 15% they do use it are frequent enough to warrant or demand consideration.  There is often a reason people spend the money on these vehicles, though I'm certain there are outliers.

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Americans aren't hauling more and bigger stuff now compared to the early 90s, 80s, or 70s, so this is a worthless post.  Back in those decades, trucks and hauling vehicles were MUCH smaller and still functioned perfectly fine.  In fact, they've done comparisons, and sta really funny is the fact that many of these stupidly sized vehicles we have these days actually have LESS flatbed room than much smaller cars and older trucks.  Consumers are stupidly brainwashed by the auto industry into spending 10s and thousands of more dollars on these stupidly sized cars that have less space than before to haul things.

It's idiotic. And it's killing tons of people. [/quote]

Nope, this wrong. Flat wrong.

I grew up riding Hunter-Jumper horses. In the 80’s we pulled a 4 stall horse trailer with a 1979 Ford one-ton pick up (smaller than current one-ton/3500 series trucks).

Going up our mild small east coast mountains was a struggle. The truck would strain to maintain 30 mph. And braking? Absolutely terrifying. You had to plan carefully on down grades and time your shifts carefully to control the descent. The drum brakes would overheat and fade. It was really really scary and dangerous to tow any kind of real weight with these trucks, despite them being the biggest truck available at the time.

Our current tow truck for an even heavier trailer today is a 2019 Ford SuperDuty diesel 4x4. It can tow an even heavier trailer almost effortlessly. Not only does it maintain the speed limit going up mountains, it can even accelerate while doing it. And braking? The braking is the most impressive part. It can stop a heavy trailer going down a 8% grade like it’s coming to a stop sign.

It’s a night-and-day difference between trucks then and now. They are MUCH safer today. [/quote]

I believe you, but you've got to admit that you're an edge case.[/quote]

Not an "edge case."  You just have a limited perspective.[/quote]

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