As others have noted, some insurance companies don't like F450s, but that's not the case for mine. Insurance cost is so close to the F350 that it wasn't a consideration for me.
Kayteg1 wrote:
What really annoyed me in F450 was low gearing. That thing screamed at 3000 rpm doing 65 mph.
I have to say that the low gearing has got to be effecting mpg. Mine has 4.30s and never anything close to 3000 rpms. I regularly go over the mountains here in WA. The net effect of the gearing is that going over mountains even in Montana has almost no noticeable effect and the mpg over the mtns is essentially the same as the F350 with a load. I lose on the flatland. I'd prefer something between the 3.73 and the 4.30s.
I can't say the F350 that I had before was like that. After seeing all kinds of rigs with issues going over these same mountains, I was ok to make that tradeoff. Searching for a gear over the mountains burns up a lot of transmissions. If I was mostly on the flat, the tradeoff might not have worked.
As I've noted before, I almost always use the truck for hauling the TC, so empty mpg doesn't affect me much. My TC is heavy, but not the heaviest out there.
