Just looking at trucks and seems like you can get some decent deals on ones with relatively low mileage. Is this a trap because they have seen rough lives and the miles count for a lot more?
If buying a big truck I just wondering if a stakebed or stakebed dump is even more useful for truck stuff, since you can haul more, they can forklift whatever onto the back, you could probably almost put a car on it with the right ramps and angling it a bit
It's probably partly the use they've likely seen, but mostly the smaller target market. The average "I want a truck because I want one but have no need for one" type or someone who only wants to tow with it (especially for a gooseneck where they need a standard bed or a flat bed for clearance) doesn't want a stake bed truck. It looks junky to them.
True, but if you were to actually do "truck stuff" seems like a stakebed gets you 8x9/10/12 feet whatever more space more flexibility, and if its a dump even better if you rarely use it
You are right that I think it doesnt fit the profile of a truck people want
They tend to be more sparsely optioned and used by folks unconcerned with getting the interior dirty. They haven't necessarily been any more abused or neglected than a conventional pickup. If you don't mind the lack of options, you're one of those folks (or you don't mind replacing interior parts) and the trucky things that you do will work with that bed then they can be an excellent choice.
The only features I really want are AC and maybe cruise control. Vinyl seats suck but seat covers can fix that.
If it was going to be a daily or something I am sure I might care more. Or if theres a big difference in fatigue on longer drives
The dumpable stakebed is the most useful bed. Flatbed, regular bed, dump truck, and sorta-ramp-truck all in one.
Thats what I was thinking, if you had long enough ramps you could tip the bed a bit to make the breakover angle flat and put a winch on it and use it like a flatbed/rollback almost
The flatbed was awesome. I could pull a side and have whatever heavy crap i was picking up loaded by forklift from 3 sides. I miss that, but I'm not pulling the bed off my new truck to make a flatbed.
I'm debating it because I was thinking about getting a 3/4ton truck so I could put one of these racks on it and still tow a travel trailer
But with the flatbed/stakebed you could just drive it on flat and the CG would be lower than having this up on the bedsides etc
If the truck started life as a cab chassis without a bed the registration and insurance process is more complicated than a regular truck, and you may or may not have to start going through weigh stations as a result. I've been fighting some of those battles with my Transit.
That said, if you are converting a regular pickup to flatbed there's a place in KS that sells DIY aluminum flatbed kits and I am pleased with mine.
Good tip I will have to check the local laws
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