F150 heavy duty payload

Gdetrailer wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
Do any of you weight cops think that maybe, just for a minute, Ford (or insert your favorite brand here) has enough safety factor built into the truck that they don't care where you put the payload?
We are getting back to the "1/2 tons can only haul a sack of groceries" argument.
Idk if the new style 150s went back to smaller axles for the HD package, but I've had a coup,e of the 7 luggers over the years that got loaded up like typical construction vehicles. Put overloads on them to keep the back end off the ground. Beat em like a rented mule and never seen any rear axle/spring failures.

OK, I will be the lone dissenter on this comment but..

I HAD a 97 150 "HD", that was the year that Ford was changing body styles and they had TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT "F250s"..

They had the LIGHT DUTY F250 on the NEW body style and the had the SD F250 on the old body style.

The LIGHT DUTY F250 REPLACED the F150 HD for that year.

That thing ate brakes for breakfast lunch and dinner and for snacks it ate suspension parts..

At 50K miles the brakes were shot and ate the rotors in the process.. New brakes and rotors went another 50K and were done..

Suspension well at 60K needed new ball joints, front bushings idler arm and pretty much all other parts you could think of..

At 120K needed brakes again, new shocks, rear leaf spring bushings were squawking but I ignored those..

At 130K the front end parts were getting sloppy once again..

At 140K was the last straw when the ABS decided to malfunction and the garage gave a quote of $3500 min..

Traded in for a brand new 2003 SD F250 at 145K miles and will never look back at a F150 or a F150 HD...

First set of brakes on the SD F250 was at 80K miles!, Ball joints at 150K miles and all the other suspension parts are still original..

No comparison, I still have the 2003 SD F250 and it now has just about 200,000 miles.. Getting ready to let my DD use it when she passes her driving test..

As far as squabbling over Payloads.. Really, 1900-2,000 lbs is peanuts.. my current 2013 SD F250 has a payload of 3415 lbs.. AND it didn't cost $60K to get that (F150 HD with EB, crew cab, XLT or higher with HD payload will start at $60K and go up..)

Buy a toy, it is your choice to do so but there ARE trucks out there that you do not have to count potato chips for payload..