2500HD or 3500HD
I am window shopping for a new tow vehicle. Probably a year or more away from pulling the trigger. What I want is a SRW short bed. I am leaning toward the GM with a Duramax. I was thinking I wanted a ...
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deltabravo wrote:IdaD wrote:
Drive into a campground or onto a farm or job site sometime - most guys don't.
Why don't guys drive in to a campground or jobsite?
Quote the whole post. The point is, most trucks in construction do not add timbrens or air bags or other equal. Drive them like they got them. Or they do as I have done, at 100K miles, if the springs are worn and sagging, replace the whole spring set, to something stronger.
Then again, most of us in construction fields, know the DOT LEO/CVEO on the side of the road, know the only thing they enforce weight wise, is the Federal Bridge Laws, NO ONE in there right mind would be over the FBL ratings of the tires and axel amounts in a typical DOT class 1-3 SW truck. That is around 10-12K per axel!
Marty
