[editor-surveyor]

" but Ford's just don't come close to matching GMC vehicles"

Unless you want to carry a load, or set some sheets of T&G plywood down on the bed where they can slide under the saddle box... :o)

[Syncro]

Oops, I replied to the wrong post!

Unless you want to carry a load, or set some sheets of T&G plywood down on the bed where they can slide under the saddle box... :o)

When you load 4x8 sheets, you slide them under the saddle box, and close the tailgate

Same for tongue and grove (cool that you know the TG abbreviation for tongue and groove dude, I'm impressed!) .

Fords have too short of beds to do that?

Get a Chevy...

[Jeff Head]

The standard width of all Chevy Pickup beds at the wheel wells is just over 50" which works for a standard 4 ft wide sheet of plywood. So, with my shortbed, I put down the tail gate and stack them in there underneath the tool box.

With the long bed version (97 1/2" long), you can fit an 8 foot plywood length within the bed...but not on the normal (78 1/2" long) or, as I say, on the short beds. In both the latter cases you have to put the tail gate down.

But, I knew that going in and it works for me.

For me, it's a very nice Z71 offroad 4X4 crew cab truck outfitted with a Flowmaster twin pipe exhaust system, 10 ply on/off road tires, the Westin tube step-side full length runners, the Ranch Hand Summit bumper replacement deer guard, and that Ranch Hand lourvered headache rack and tool box.

I've owned and driven Chevy, Ford, and Dodge. All of the new versions are very nice. My brother's new Platinum Ford crew cab 1/2 ton is a GREAT truck. I believe the Z71 is the best off road package out there, and the Chevy generally retains its value a little better. But any of the new model 4X4, crew cab, off road trucks are fine vehicles.