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proxim2020 wrote:

camperforlife wrote:

I guess you never owned a work truck, only a grocery getter. While we are always more careful with a new truck, if you have a work truck on a farm or job site stuff happens and things don't always get laid softly in the bed.

Things don't always get laid in the bed softly, but block doesn't get dumped from 6ft in the air either. I've had lots of stone and rock dumped into my 9 year old truck. Everything from sand to boulders. Not once have I had a loader load my bed so stupidly. My bed has plenty of dents and scratches, but if someone dropped blocks in it like that tomorrow then it would end in a fist fight lol. Around here if you're buying a work truck that's going to be hauling material, you're buying at least a 250. You're getting a thicker bed anyway.

No guarantees on the farm. I remember the first truck dad was able to pay cash for, a '84 Chevy K10 with the 6.2 diesel in a beautiful copper brown.

The truck was 2 weeks old and we were lowering a 3 phase silo motor that failed while trying to cut through frozen silage at -10. The chain broke dropping the 200lb motor from about 10 feet in the bed leaving a huge dent and a hole about 4" around. Dad walked around the barn out of sight coming back with what looked like teary eyes. We dropped the motor off for repair and dad picked up a 2' square piece of steel that we later welded to the bed of that beautiful new truck. He took it to Ziebart and had the bottom rustproofed and we spray painted the bed. So goes life on the farm at times.

I can name numerous fails and blunders over the years that happened with our REAL trucks. The Chevy commercial while may seem exaggerated to some but not that far off from real life for trucks that really do work.