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Re: Help....F250 or 350
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fedexpsd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Why do you need a long bed? </div></div>
As long as you stay on nice wide paved streets, and never back up into a jacknife, then you don't need it. But the first time you pull into a narrow, crooked road (or alley or trail) and go a mile or so before you hit the steep grades and then the dead end, with no place to turn around, then you'll swear "never again".
With a long bed or a slider hitch, you can get turned around by jacknifing the trailer, then disconnecting the trailer, then driving around to the other side of the kingpin and back in at a jacknife angle. Hook up and go. A few minutes and you're out of that mess. But with a shorty without a slider hitch, you're stuck.
Yes, I've been there, done that. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif[/img] That's why before the next towing trip I traded that shorty for a long bed. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif[/img]
Go to any big RV repair shop and ask how many trailers they've had to repair because of cab to trailer contact with a shorty tow vehicle. The answer is very expensive repairs are made often.
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