[AT] tractor hauler a pain to install headlights.

[Ralph Goff]

On 2020-01-18 9:23 a.m., Cecil Bearden wrote:
>  Now, a 3/4 ton is necessary to do what a 1/2 ton pickup would.  The 
> gooseneck stock and equipment trailers have had to be rebuilt to clear 
> the bed sides of the newer pickups or a flat bed must be installed on 
> the pickup now.
>
> I looked at a new 2017 Dodge 2500 before I bought my used 2011 
> Chevrolet and the salesman had to bring me a stepstool so I could get 
> into it.     The electric running boards were a $1000 option....  I 
> could get into my 2011 Chevrolet without the running boards even 
> though  it has  them.   With all the hype about mileage, I would think 
> that a higher profile vehicle would have more wind resistance and get 
> less fuel mileage....
> Some call it progress.
> Cecil
>
> I guess it is progress for the companies building these ridiculous 
> huge, high riding, small boxed expensive pickups. Short boxes on most 
> of the new ones won't hold as much as my old 81 GMC and mine is a 
> whole lot easier to reach anything in the box from beside it. And its 
> a full length 8 foot box that will hold a 100 gallon slip tank and my 
> trike.  I don't need running boards to climb in. I don't have a 
> million little fancy (unwanted) gadgets to break down in a few years. 
> No way I"d ever buy a new pickup. But if they offered a new 80s 
> vintage pickup I'd buy one of those. They had all we really needed in 
> a truck.

Ok I'm heading out into the -30 something wind chill to cool off.


Ralph in Sask.