Safest way to travel with 6 in a pickup?
We have a Dodge Ram 2500 megacab as a tow vehicle. There are five of us -- hubby and I and three kids, ages 6, 7 and 9. In August we're going to a music festival about four hours away. DD9 is brin...
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srt20 wrote:blt2ski wrote:
hmmmm, 100K+ miles with 4 kids, spouse in a crew and ext cab truck, with NO air bags mind you!......hmmmmmm..... must have been one unsafe dad I were.
Put the smallest person per say in the front middle, after than, where ever folks will go. You WILL survive just fine! trust me.
Marty
That's all fine and dandy, but this isn't the 70s. We have the tech, we have the knowledge,why wouldn't they take advantage of it? Why would you give bad advice? Odds are they will be fine and not have an accident. But nobody can guarantee that!
If you want to do things your way, great. It's a free country. But the OP came on here looking for advice on how to be as safe as possible in their situation. They obviously weren't looking for advice that "might" have been acceptable when Fred Flintstone was driving.
Better pick a different time frame! THis was the 90's and 2000's i was doing this! ALL the seats had belts, the outer four had shoulder straps. The 96 CC had an emanual trans of all things. that made the middle front a bit smaller in legroom. Did the same with my 05 dually a few times too. Altho by then, eldest were over 20, and only had my youngest two to worry about, so they sat in the outer back. The 88 ext cab had them all in child seats. Boosters were just coming of age and popularity at the time.
I would do the same today if my kids were smaller. If the air bags were turn offable, I would do that where and if someone was too small etc. Just as I did back then, but the 88 and 96 did not have airbags, the 05 did.
Marty
