Re: Utility Trailers

From: Michael Maskalans (dml@tepidcola.com)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 00:22:25 EDT


On Sep 10, 2006, at 15:52, jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:

>
> Heck, as long as we are sort've off topic - something I don't
> understand about those trucks is that they are called a deuce and
> a half, because their payload is 2.5 tons (5,000lbs). That's not
> the part I don't get; the part I don't get is that my Ram dually
> has a payload of nearly 5,000lbs, and that 6x6 has got to be so
> much more heavy duty than my Ram that it isn't even funny.

And that Ram, of course, is a "one ton" - with a payload capacity of
5,000#.

I wonder if it could do 2,000# in the bed overland and be happy about
it? :-)

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