1/2 ton trucks?

Fast0ne wrote:
I think half ton trucks are great. But I still think the eco boost is way overrated and will cause auto wreckers to start stock piling all these trucks with blown motors and turbos that no one can afford to fix out of warranty.

Your just another hater. Is it because the Ecoboost out performs your sluggish V8?? :B

There have been over 600,000 Ecoboost F150's sold since they first came out in 2011. I have read about owners that work in the oil fields towing and working these trucks with 200,000+ miles on them. And you think they are way overrated? Yeh ok...

It's not 1995 anymore and the Ecoboost is the way of the future so you better get use to it...

I have a 2014 Silverado 1500 with Max Towing and it tows a 10500lb 5er with ease.

And gets 24 miles/gallon on a grocery run.

Best of Both worlds

Sport45 wrote:

Dannyabear1 wrote:
OK here is easy way to tell what you have

6 lugs or less =grocery getter, soccermom mobile
7 lugs = trying hard to be a real truck
8 lugs or more = real truck

Now that's funny!





Maybe modern wheel lugs are weaker and that's why we need so many...

I would agree, my 92 Navistar class 6 rig has 6 lugs also! I can put my old dually 3500 loaded in the back, and be at gvwr with some 3000 lbs of room to go!

As noted, DOT class 3 rigs, ie 1/2, 3/4, 1 ton up to 13500 gvwr are LIGHT DUTY trucks. From class 4 to 7, 13501 to 33000 lbs are medium duty. over 33K lbs gvwr is a heavy duty class 8. Now if you want to discuss the Australian version of the above, IIRC light duty is up to around 25K, medium up to about 70-80K, heavy up to 120K, and superduty/train style is in the 120-200K lb total gvw of the rig.

So where does that put us NOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Oh by the way, per my license here in Wa st, my 2000 C2500 is good to 8K total gvw, my 2 sons ea have a GM 1500, the other a Toyota Tacoma, they too have 8K plates, are legal to 8K gvwr, as is myself, even tho the door sticker on my rig says 8600, I only get the 8K. So door badging many times means squat in the legal scence. We would not want to talk legal speak would we?!?!?!?!?????

Marty

Dannyabear1 wrote:
OK here is easy way to tell what you have

6 lugs or less =grocery getter, soccermom mobile
7 lugs = trying hard to be a real truck
8 lugs or more = real truck

Now that's funny!





Maybe modern wheel lugs are weaker and that's why we need so many...

I think half ton trucks are great. But I still think the eco boost is way overrated and will cause auto wreckers to start stock piling all these trucks with blown motors and turbos that no one can afford to fix out of warranty.

BenK wrote:
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it's front

That's a nice looking bike! How many miles per beer?

'Grocery getter' is the derogatory employed to lower 'them' as is the other
derogatory: 'Weight Police'. Just a nicer way of dissing them...

I've owned a mid sized pickup and is a half ton...they also made a 3/4 ton that
had the same body, but bigger frame/drive train/etc...Mazda B2500, which is a
Ford Ranger. Daughter has that now

Current 'half ton' is my Silverado with a 6.2K GVWR and is the 'HD' of it's time

As for the number of wheel lugs...Marty, Jeremiah and I were yucking it up
a few pages ago on FIVE lug trucks with +20K GVWR's

Made a cruiser for errands around town and do get groceries with it...go it is
a 'Grocery Getter' that uses no dino fuel... Made it, so no labels on it's GVWR
nor 'cargo' and 'payload' capacity.


(edit)...added a basket that also has be beer bottle cap opener on
it's front

Kevin O. wrote:

Dannyabear1 wrote:
OK here is easy way to tell what you have

6 lugs or less =grocery getter, soccermom mobile
7 lugs = trying hard to be a real truck
8 lugs or more = real truck

I'm guessing you must have a real truck??
I guess we know now who has the smallest pee pee..

Bahahahaha

My F150 sure felt like a real truck when I had the bed loaded down with firewood. Or when it was pulling my 7000 lb travel trailer comfortably. Lol

All I see here is a bunch of balding mid life crisis men probably wearing plaid golf slacks driving around in their "real" trucks.

Most likely cruising the community colleges trying to pick up chicks with lines like "hey baby,if you have the time I have the available payload".

Dannyabear1 wrote:
OK here is easy way to tell what you have

6 lugs or less =grocery getter, soccermom mobile
7 lugs = trying hard to be a real truck
8 lugs or more = real truck

I'm guessing you must have a real truck??
I guess we know now who has the smallest pee pee..