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I'd like to see a tundra with 4 tons of sand in bed, like my ford carried,

azchuckmo wrote:
I'd like to see a tundra with 4 tons of sand in bed, like my ford carried,

A yard of sand weighs a little over a ton... how did you get FOUR yards of sand in a standard 8 foot bed? Besides the fact that you would be WAY overloaded with 8000+ lbs of carried weight, it seems unlikely that you could stack sand in the relatively small confines of a pickup truck bed.
Also, did you put that in the 8 foot bed of a F150? Because that would be a more direct comparison to the half ton Tundra. Not an EXACT comparison, because the F150 can be configured with much higher GVWR than the Tundra, but a more direct one.
I assume you probably have a 350. If that's the case, I would like to see your 350 with 300 tons of sand in the bed, like the Hitatchi Euclid carried...
http://www.dieselpowermag.com/features/0804dp_10_largest_dump_trucks/viewall.html

See, we can all make ridiculous statements...

azchuckmo wrote:
I'd like to see a tundra with 4 tons of sand in bed, like my ford carried,

You carried 8,000 lbs in the bed of your pickup?

Ron3rd wrote:

azchuckmo wrote:
I'd like to see a tundra with 4 tons of sand in bed, like my ford carried,

You carried 8,000 lbs in the bed of your pickup?

Anything's possible on the internets:)

And if you want a great heavy-hauler and not just a pseudo truck ... The US trucks are the top 3! Craig

I once put a yard and a half into a '90 F150 not knowing any better. The guy in the yard said are you SURE? I said yep. Didn't take up that much space in my 8 foot bed. I watched the bed go down, down and down some more. Was hanging just above the tires. I had a big gulp and got in to go the short distance home. The bed of the truck was literally swinging side to side a couple of inches but made it. Dummy me.

What a load! A good statistician can make the numbers say anything they want! So they base the reliability of a vehicle on the number of miles until the vehicle is considered worthless? To me that says absolutely nothing about the reliability of a vehicle or vehicle brand or how troublesome said vehicles and brands may be. The article looked like pure fiction to me!