I'm an old fan of regular cab trucks. I now tow a light-weight 7,000 lb, 5th wheel with a Ram 2500 crew cab and 5.7 Hemi, which proved to be a good match. My wife likes the regular cabs because she finds them easier to drive with the improved visibility through the rear window. I like them for the same reason and also for the longer bed without a very long truck length. Other than us two we travel with a 14 lb mini dachshund. Our next truck will in all likelihood be a regular cab. Does anyone else have the same idea?

I've had a couple in my younger days and I'm a fan too. Wife and three kids don't work too well with a regular cab, though, so I'll be in a crew for the foreseeable future.

We recently purchased (from a member here) a 2001.5 Dodge 5.9 4x4 regular cab for my wife to use as a full time horse trailer puller. We have found that the lack of the rear seat makes it easier to see when we hook up the trailer. The truck has an 8 ft. bed and, because there is no rear seat, it is about the same length as our Dodge 3500 Quad cab short bed. That is a plus when you tow on forest service roads.

Yes. No longer own a fifth wheel, just a bumper pull TT. Don't need our 1 ton Quad Cab Ram to tow it. In the process of 'downsizing' our lives and that includes wanting to drop down to a single vehicle. Wife is not at all at ease driving the Ram, so a long wheelbase regular cab or super cab configuration with 6 3/4 ft bed appeals to me. An F150 with the 3.5L EB or 5L V8 comes to mind. Want the longest WB configuration I can find since that might help with towing stability.

If available, I would buy an extra cab. The quad cab is more room than we need and a full size 4-door adds too much WB imo.

We use a Tundra reg cab long box to tow our 5th wheel because it has 1820 lbs payload which is the most a Tundra has. We would rather have a double cab incase we want to take others with us but needed the payload. One thing to note is that the Tundra reg cab has much more room behind seat in cab than the other regular cabs so we find that useful as you can get groceries or whatever and still have room in cab. Most other reg cabs end right behind the seat.

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rjstractor
Nomad
Dec 26, 2015
brulaz wrote:
Has anyone mentioned that regular cabs have quite a bit more payload than the bigger cabs?

Yes, I had a 2500HD regular cab that had almost 4000 lbs payload!
dshelley
Explorer
Dec 26, 2015
More payload, as brulaz mentioned, and easier to park. For some, same leg room, plus good usable storage behind the seat. Thousands of dollars less money to buy, makes perfectly good sense to me for those who do not need additional seating capacity. I have a quad cab now, but the next one will be a regular.
brulaz
Explorer
Dec 26, 2015
Has anyone mentioned that regular cabs have quite a bit more payload than the bigger cabs? And you can be assured that none of it will be taken up by back seat passengers.
shepstone
Explorer
Dec 26, 2015
coolbreeze01 wrote:
If available, I would buy an extra cab. The quad cab is more room than we need and a full size 4-door adds too much WB imo.

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Gdetrailer
Explorer III
Dec 25, 2015
brulaz wrote:
Gdetrailer wrote:

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An Super or extra cab with 8ft bed will still be shorter than a 4 door crew cab and you can easily see out the rear window easily.

An F150 SuperCab with 8' bed is the longest truck in the F150 fleet as the crew cab only comes with the 6.5' bed (or even 5.5' bed).

I have F150 SuperCab with 6.5' bed and really like the configuration, length and wheelbase. Do not want anything bigger.

But my next truck will probably be an F150 HDPayload or perhaps a RAM 2500. And a Supercab with 6.5' bed is not avail in either of those. So we are looking at Regular cabs too. AFAIK the RAM 2500 Reg Cab has more space behind the seat than the new F150 Reg Cab.

We want the space behind the seat not for people, but for computers, tools and groceries.

:R

I don't consider "F150s" in MY fleet of vehicles..

Learned many years ago, use the CORRECT TOOL for the job and the job gets done faster and better.. F150 HDs just were not stout enough for my usage, cost me a lot of money in suspension repairs..

F250/350 super cab with 6 3/4ft bed IS the same length as a F250/350 regular cab with 8ft bed..

The longest is a F250/350 CREW CAB WITH 8FT BED (can't get THAT combination in a F150).
brulaz
Explorer
Dec 25, 2015
Gdetrailer wrote:

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An Super or extra cab with 8ft bed will still be shorter than a 4 door crew cab and you can easily see out the rear window easily.

An F150 SuperCab with 8' bed is the longest truck in the F150 fleet as the crew cab only comes with the 6.5' bed (or even 5.5' bed).

I have F150 SuperCab with 6.5' bed and really like the configuration, length and wheelbase. Do not want anything bigger.

But my next truck will probably be an F150 HDPayload or perhaps a RAM 2500. And a Supercab with 6.5' bed is not avail in either of those. So we are looking at Regular cabs too. AFAIK the RAM 2500 Reg Cab has more space behind the seat than the new F150 Reg Cab.

We want the space behind the seat not for people, but for computers, tools and groceries.
Gdetrailer
Explorer III
Dec 24, 2015
colliehauler wrote:
I remember when reg cab trucks were the normal and a few had crew cabs (air force) comes to mind. Just don't see were many regular cab trucks on dealers lots. I guess the trades still use a reg cab truck.

Reg cabs are sold, but not "pushed", they are typically equipped with "fleet" type usage in mind so you won't see much sitting on the lots..

There IS much more profit headroom in upselling crewcabs and many people simply "gotta have it all" so you will find a lot more crewcabs sitting on dealer lots.

I have bought two supercabs which my local dealer did a multi state search of new inventory.. They found them equipped rather close to my wish list.. They did a dealer to dealer trade to get those trucks for me. That equaled a happy customer!

My last two trucks, the dealer was not able to locate any trucks equipped the way I wanted so we ordered exactly what we wanted.. Cost nothing extra but did have to wait 6 weeks to get built.. Still very happy customer!
colliehauler
Explorer III
Dec 24, 2015
I remember when reg cab trucks were the normal and a few had crew cabs (air force) comes to mind. Just don't see were many regular cab trucks on dealers lots. I guess the trades still use a reg cab truck.
donn0128
Explorer II
Dec 24, 2015
No way would I ever consider a regular cab truck. Loss of seat travel, loss of inside storage are two big issues for me.
MFL
Nomad II
Dec 24, 2015
I would not want to go back to the reg cab, but have no use for the crew. I had to order my last Super cab. The couple I found on lots, in a 200 mile radius, were not what I wanted. I won't buy something I don't want, just because a CC may have a better trade-in down the road. It's just the two of us, and little puppy.

Jerry

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