The dealers do not have crystal balls.
After reading some of these posts, I find it amazing that people expect the dealers to know what they are going to haul. The car dealer looked at my F-150 E-boost 4x4 and said the spec. sheet say...
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My truck salesman pretty much ran into his limits immediately after offering a test drive. He was the son of another long-time sales manager at the dealership and didn't last a year. I wasn't surprised after reading his nasty comments he emailed me after I had to strong-arm them into replacing the 7-pin connector because the cover was broken off when I bought it.
I suspect one of the issues we run into is that TT usage is a very, very small part of the market. Our demands on the vehicles are unique compared to 90% of their sales. This challenges both the manufacturers and the sales guys.
Now that I'm in that minority, I take more careful note of all the people around here who use their trucks for work. Nearly all of them are 3/4 and 1-ton models, many pulling cargo trailers. Before I started coming here, I would have thought they were doing it (avoiding 1/2 tons) for their ego. Now I know better.
I suspect one of the issues we run into is that TT usage is a very, very small part of the market. Our demands on the vehicles are unique compared to 90% of their sales. This challenges both the manufacturers and the sales guys.
Now that I'm in that minority, I take more careful note of all the people around here who use their trucks for work. Nearly all of them are 3/4 and 1-ton models, many pulling cargo trailers. Before I started coming here, I would have thought they were doing it (avoiding 1/2 tons) for their ego. Now I know better.
