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[Sysop]

24x7 so it is on hand anytime it is needed?

no...

 

[bcp]

A 6' ladder and a saw can make a 5.5ft ladder.

Bruce

 

[Sysop]

That's a lot of work to fix a poorly designed vehicle. :laughing:

In all seriousness. I need a 6' ladder all the time, occasionally longer (for which I have a rack to put them as needed), to do the work my customers require of me. To cut off a ladder to fit the bed of a truck that can't fit it would be a poor fix for buying the wrong truck. To me, a truck is a tool, and like any tool; ya buy what is required. For me that is a 6'+ bed.

 

[two_bit_score]

That's a lot of work to fix a poorly designed vehicle. :laughing:

In all seriousness. I need a 6' ladder all the time, occasionally longer (for which I have a rack to put them as needed), to do the work my customers require of me. To cut off a ladder to fit the bed of a truck that can't fit it would be a poor fix for buying the wrong truck. To me, a truck is a tool, and like any tool; ya buy what is required. For me that is a 6'+ bed.

I haul a lot of 8 foot stuff. Thats why I have a full sized bed.

 

[Sysop]

I occasionally need to haul my 8' or 10' ladder to a client's location, but that is really the only long stuff I haul regularly.

My truck is a rolling toolbox and stays very close to fully loaded all the time. There is room for me and my dog in a cab that has enough seatbelts for six folk (tight fit), the rest is tool and part storage. The 6.5' bed is full of toolboxes, boxes of cables, some other boxes of small materials, and my ladder; which all fit under the tonneau cover. Headache-type rack on the front of the bed and a removable stake-pocket rack for the rear of the bed holds any longer stuff I need to carry (up to a point, then I hook up a trailer).

 

[BigBlue1]

That's a lot of work to fix a poorly designed vehicle. :laughing:

In all seriousness. I need a 6' ladder all the time, occasionally longer (for which I have a rack to put them as needed), to do the work my customers require of me. To cut off a ladder to fit the bed of a truck that can't fit it would be a poor fix for buying the wrong truck. To me, a truck is a tool, and like any tool; ya buy what is required. For me that is a 6'+ bed.

You know, objects longer than the sides of a rectangle can fit into said rectangle diagonally... May save the cutting.

 

[Sysop]

Perhaps. It would be infinitely more difficult to fit all the other square and rectangular boxes and toolboxes in with it though.

 

[BigBlue1]

Not lots of the full double cab trucks. Many of them come with little dinky 5.5' beds.

Those shorter truck beds are still surprisingly useful. I had a Ram 1500 for 7 year with a 5' 7" bed and I never had a problem carrying anything that I needed to... And I used it like a truck. Surprisingly, not everyone hauls 4x8 sheets of plywood all the time. The 6' 4" bed on my 2500 also does everything I need. Oh yeah, and I own a trailer, because an 8' bed is just as bad of a solution as a 6' 4" bed for something like 16' lumber.

And remember, not everyone is manly enough to be able to handle a truck with an 8' bed. Takes some pretty serious testosterone levels to own one of those vehicles. The rest of us can only hope to evoke that image. :sarcastic:

For every one person who shakes their head at other folks driving a crew-cab pickup with a 6.5' box there is another one shaking their head at the guy with the extended cab truck with 8' box that can't park it for $h1t and it hangs out 3' into the parking lot lane.

 

[herm0016]

My 6 1/2' bed extended cab works well for me. Last one was a long bed. Barley fit in the garage. I have 2 trailers if I need to haul something long.

yep. i have a 6.5 bed 4 door. Needed the 4 door to fit all the dogs in the cab in the winter!.

6.5 is a good size for me. long stuff goes on a trailer. 16 foot lumber in an 8 foot bed just as much as a 6.5.

 

[fruitcakesa]

Sold my 95 Cummins Dodge Regular Cab w/8 foot box five years ago [after it was so rusty it would not pass inspection without more work than I was willing or able to do] and bought a 5 x 10 utility trailer to tow behind my VW turbodiesel wagon. Rated at 2990 lbs, it handles anything I need to haul.
Since I don't have any commercial activities that requires a full time truck this has been a perfect solution plus no expensive yearly registration, insurance and inspection.
My testosterone has not been troubled by no truck ownership and the VW is a blast to drive.