Short vs. Long Bed F350 SRW

brooks379 wrote:

transamz9 wrote:

brooks379 wrote:
Why would anyone want a short bed truck when they make 8 foot beds ? Never could understand that. Long bed looks better !! Hauls 8' loads, rides better. My wife has been driving long bed F 350's for 20 years..... Come on you can do it.....lol

You can't be serious.... Looks are an opinion. IMO a short bed looks better unless is a regular cab truck. Then a long bed looks better. The other funny thing about your post is I've hauled 16' materials in my short bed. I'd be willing to bet my Mega Cab rides as good or better than your long bed and still turn a tighter radius too.

Serious as a heart attack !! I looked at a short box when I bought my last F 350 because there was one sitting right next to my new truck and IMO that big crew cab and little bed just looks out of whack to me... If I'm spending that much it has to be for a truck I enjoy looking at. If you hauled 16' material with a short box that must mean I could haul 18' material ....or maybe 20' ...lol

I agree with you on wanting to drive a truck that looks good, that's one of the many reasons I have a standard bed. Like I said, looks are a matter of opinion. When it comes to hauling something, you imagination is the limiting factor not 1.5' of bed length. It's all in how you have your truck set up. Believe it or not but the company I bought my gutters from hauled them to my house from their shop 50 miles away. Longest one was 68' long. The delivered them on top of a short bed crew cab Chevy pick up.

I mean really, we could split hairs over 1.5 feet of bed length all day when it really comes down to what one likes because in reality if it needs to be hauled either truck can get it done with some imagination.

To say there's no other options but an 8' bed is really not true.