Truck Bed Weight
I would like to know how much an 8' truck bed weighs on a 2021 Ford F-350, they are made of aluminum these days. I want to weigh that (pardon the pun) against the weight of a custom aluminum fla...
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stevenal wrote:
Why a flat bed? This will raise your camper and its COG significantly. There are manufacturers that build pickup beds complete with storage boxes for TCers.
Maybe you could be more specific. If you’re talking custom beds like Sherptek, those are nowhere near the “value” of a flatbed with boxes. Unless spending $30k on a custom truck bed is a priority. And they don’t look like an OEM bed, for double or more what one would need to spend on a fully optioned flatbed with boxes everywhere.
If you’re talking about that mfg that makes or used to make service bodies that look like OEM truck beds, I haven’t seen any of those in many years. And even if they were still available you don’t know if a camper would fit in them.
