[AT] Big Truck Pickups

[Phil Auten]

James, that video of the "empty" toolbox punching a hole in the aluminum 
bed floor of a Ford was faked. Notice that it is no longer shown on TV? 
That is why. GM made a big misjudgement on that one.

Phil in TX


On 11/29/2019 9:29 AM, James Peck wrote:
> James AT List Member and advocate of upgradeable tractor vocational training (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com); I have rented a Home Depot flatbed pickup twice to carry items that would not have fit in a pickup box. I am very impressed with them. The flat beds are probably much more puncture proof than those aluminum ford pickup boxes. There used to be a commercial of someone dropping a tool box into a ford pickup bed and tearing a hole in the bed.
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> https://www.homedepot.com/c/Truck_Rental
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> You could probably move a tractor with a rental truck and trailer.
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>   I have seen 1/2 ton pickup beds where the stamped floor rails are scalloped between the laterals due to loads carried. My question is whether the F450 Ford or aftermarket F650 have bed floors that will carry the rated load as well as a wood floor would. The hot rudders have embraced wood pickup bed floors for esthetic reasons. They likely are the higher capacity option.
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