A new solution to the "jacked up" truck

SoCalDesertRider wrote:
I like it. It's a very good idea.

Most of them either mount flatbeds or hauler style beds on their trucks.

Disagree. Ugly - bad idea.

Sell that factory bed, install a flatbed or the "hauler style bed".

UNLESS - your truck is registered in CA.

Then - you are required to stop at scales...:(

Since the OP didn't say where the truck's plates were from, that could be the reason.

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I know that I will be corrected if I'm wrong but so what. I have owned several pickups since 1965 and my Brother gets a new truck about every three years do to very high mileage and we both agree that truck bed side rails have gotten higher over the last decade or so. I am 6'2" and Bro is 6'4", his latest F150 is so high he has to open the tailgate to get stuff out, whereas before we could just reach over the side rail. I see more and more goosenecks out here that in the past. I don't think they can get much higher but for the high centered trucks, what else can you do.

fireman41 wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
^^^^^There isn't any reason for the height of the trucks, just as there is no reason for jacked up pickup trucks in the first place other than "style". That is supposed to be the macho look, or so I suppose. I guess it's like owning an 4 wheel drive SUV and living in the city: form over function. :) What do they say in Texas: "All hat and no cattle"? :)

Or some people actually use the 4x4 part of the truck and need the extra ground clearance.

And some of those suburban housewives need that SUV to get the kids to soccer practice. :) Probably about the same ratio.

fj12ryder wrote:
^^^^^There isn't any reason for the height of the trucks, just as there is no reason for jacked up pickup trucks in the first place other than "style". That is supposed to be the macho look, or so I suppose. I guess it's like owning an 4 wheel drive SUV and living in the city: form over function. :) What do they say in Texas: "All hat and no cattle"? :)

Or some people actually use the 4x4 part of the truck and need the extra ground clearance.

Looks awesome

TXiceman wrote:
It would be so much easier to put the truck back to stock height...more stable as well.

Ken

Better idea yet.

WHY would one modify a perfectly fine tow vehicle to lower it's towing capabilities just to look "macho"?

UNLESS the idea behind the modification is to make it so the tow vehicle is mostly used to haul toys out to the desert or backwoods where on road TV's would fail.

^^^^^There isn't any reason for the height of the trucks, just as there is no reason for jacked up pickup trucks in the first place other than "style". That is supposed to be the macho look, or so I suppose. I guess it's like owning an 4 wheel drive SUV and living in the city: form over function. :) What do they say in Texas: "All hat and no cattle"? :)

newk wrote:
I saw one of those a few years ago owned by the owner of body shop. I like it and have suggested here that Ford, GM and Dodge could offer such beds on new trucks. Trucks seem to get taller every year, and 5th wheel manufacturers can't seem to keep up with them.

The 5th wheels are already over 13 feet in heigth. They can not go much more.

I see no practical reason for such high trucks as the new ones are.

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newk wrote:
I saw one of those a few years ago owned by the owner of body shop. I like it and have suggested here that Ford, GM and Dodge could offer such beds on new trucks. Trucks seem to get taller every year, and 5th wheel manufacturers can't seem to keep up with them.

I recently saw where Ford is raising the height of the bed-rails in the 2017 model of the SuperDuty