Grit dog wrote:
No you donโt โwonderโ, you know. But we all know youโre a professional driver. That makes a difference.
I bought my first pickup right after my Grandad bought his new '63 Ford car. He told me that he would need his pickup more because he would not abuse the new car like he had been using his '50 Ford 4 door. In the years sense, if I had 1 four-wheeled vehicle, it was likely a pickup. So, in fact I can't know which, the long or wide, will give somebody in there first pickup the most trouble.
The other fact is, the majority of the time itโs not hauling a camper, there will be snow.
But itโs always a compromise. Have a truck thatโs better for hauling a large camper and have a truck thatโs worse at other things the rest of the time, or vice versa.
I bought a new '71 F350 DW. Back then, and for a some time after, most people had 6 tires for their car. (Most pickup owners only had 5. In the spring we renamed our snow tires "mud grips"
As soon as it started to snow, my drivers where instructed to come by house, and change the duals for a pair of tires mounted on wheels off a 3/4 ton, that did not have the off-set. With the weight of the Holmes bed, likely to be overloaded. Know would be when picked up end of car, but rarely needed to hang chains. And if did much more room.
For me, if the road was going to be snow covered for much of winter, and I might need to drive a MT pickup that would be cheap and EZ fix.
