Ford or Dodge?

[atsah]

Nobody suggested that you do. The comments I've read were directed to your statement "I think my F250 rides very good...."
The roads in Missouri must be a lot better than places that I travel.

That's for sure, I have driven 1/2 tons, 3/4 tons and 1 tons Maine NH and MA and 3/4 ton up is plain miserable..

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
I have 10 ply tires on both of my pickups because I got tired of having flats on the gravel roads I travel. That in itself makes for a harsher ride.
For a toy I had a "heavy half ton" 87 GMC. There are places on the highway to my town when in springtime you don't want to be travelling more than 10 mph. That truck rode so hard that my dog finally refused to get into it... and this was a pup who traveled well over a half million miles with me.

 

[atsah]

The frost here is brutal, you will catch air at normal speed from Feb-April.. It will wreck your vehicle in short order..

 

[ovrszd]

First of all, you don't have to spend 40K to get a NEW decent equipped 1/2 ton...

Secondly, you do get 5 to 10K back when you sell it, even with high millage...

I just kept my older HD truck and bought a new 1/2 ton, so for the once in a great while I need a HD pu, I have one around to do that job.

SR

So it was cheaper for you to buy a new truck than use the current HD truck? I'd like to see the math please.

 

[ovrszd]

Nobody suggested that you do. The comments I've read were directed to your statement "I think my F250 rides very good...."
The roads in Missouri must be a lot better than places that I travel.

I don't hear suggestions. My F250 rides very good.

 

[ovrszd]

^^^^
I have 10 ply tires on both of my pickups because I got tired of having flats on the gravel roads I travel. That in itself makes for a harsher ride.
For a toy I had a "heavy half ton" 87 GMC. There are places on the highway to my town when in springtime you don't want to be travelling more than 10 mph. That truck rode so hard that my dog finally refused to get into it... and this was a pup who traveled well over a half million miles with me.

You drove 500K miles while your dog was still a pup???

 

[atsah]

We call dogs of any age pups around here..

 

[atsah]

I don't hear suggestions. My F250 rides very good.

So you have a solid front axle Ford 250? Leafs or coils?

 

[atsah]

As we all are.

Some of the roads here in FEB-APRIL when the frost is coming out of the ground are brutal, I drive 12 miles around some of them, if you drive a car down them you will tear the bottom off of the car.

In the summer a 3/4 ton truck rides pretty well but come winter you want IFS around here..

 

[ovrszd]

So you have a solid front axle Ford 250? Leafs or coils?

Leafs.