Compared 3/4 vs 1-Ton: Which HD Truck is Best for You? TFL Expert Buyer's Guide 

Leo Dei copy that Leo, BOATS same damm way, fish-ON.

yep, Chevy had their chance with me. Now I drive a F150 and very happy with it

Ken Setzer For now ;)

Clorox God, 2 rangers an explorer sport and the current 2010 edge limited and 2016 F150 all with zero problems. The last chevy was a 2006 silverado that just was not dependable ever or safe when I traded it. Look up the ABS brake problems that they would not recall. I think I'll stick with Ford this time.

You type a lot of truth. With that said, Cummins motors have never let me down. Never.

Ray_Banz58 the resale value is a lot higher though. It’s a better investment

@@Bananahammock88 having an automobile purchase as an investment especially new is just stupid

Brandon B of course it’s resale value is going to be higher... you dropped an extra 10k under the hood for the diesel. Your not really gaining anything in the long run.

I've test driven all three of the big 3 trucks since I'm looking to upgrade from a 3/4 ton to a one ton to carry a heavier load. You are correct, the Ford does ride much better. The real challenge for me is finding a newer gas powered truck with the options I consider "needed". Whatever I get, it will be the last truck I buy since I doubt I am doing much driving in twenty years due to age. Learning to pay attention to the load capacity is very important when considering to buy a truck. Any of the trucks will work, but if you don't pay attention to what you plan to use the truck for now and in the future, you may be wasting your money.

Unless your plowing then the 6ft is better

Nathan Mullaney Nope

Kenneth Hughes yup

YUP YUP YUP

Real trucks have real beds.

NWI u can still tow 15k lbs... 10% tongue weight rule dipshit. U want more payload? Buy a dam 1 ton. Not a complicated thing. I tow 10 to 15k all the time with a ram 2500. Works great and also rides more like a half ton when empty. Perfect for me and 100k other owners. Otherwise ram wouldnt have done it. U tube "trucking masters" make me laugh

Andy Hass ya you sure can tow 15k lbs still... with zero passengers, luggage, tools, tonneau cover, or other accessories.

Andy Hass who drives a crew cab pickup truck by themselves? Lol. Idiot.

NWI plenty of people who by day for work and haul family at night. How fat is your gf that u r afraid to take her along while towing? She a drama queen like u?

Andy Hass so you use a 3/4 ton diesel for work that you have to pay for yourself because your company wont? And then you tow nothing with your family?

Kcducttaper1 right! My ram 1500 is rated at 1467 that’s kinda said to be an HD truck

Not if you get fully loaded half ton like that Ram 2500 Limited was.

Just for giggles, I looked up the payload on a Chevy Colorado. It's got a max payload of 1548 pounds. At 1751 pounds, this particular Dodge 3/4 ton with a Cummins diesel is literally is rated for a whopping 203 pounds more payload than the smallest pickup GM has to offer!

Kcducttaper1 the payload is limited by the 3/4 ton class gvwr which is 10k pounds.

Right, but that's still super low for a 3/4 ton. My '99 F-250 is rated for over 3,000 pounds of payload, which is nearly double of that Dodge. They've loaded it down with bells and gizmos so bad, you can't hardly justify buying it over a 1/2 ton anymore. Even for towing, with 10-15% tongue weight, you're still limited to about a 12,000 pound trailer. It's even less if you're loading people/gear in the pickup.

Or long term cost.

Long term cost would be cool, but in all fairness, it's awfully hard for journalists to estimate that when they're only borrowing the pickups for a couple days. Diesel maintenance is certainly significantly more expensive these days - especially after 100,000 miles or so.

Kcducttaper1 I am guessing by your comment you don’t or haven’t owned a diesel. sure they could be more expensive if you don’t know anything about your rig and take everything to a dealer. I deleted my 13 Ram 3500 6.7 myself, so no def or regen etc, and it costs me about 300 bucks every 10000 miles to do fuel filters and oil and filter in my driveway. And most diesel aren’t really considered broken in till after 100k

Jake Stringfellow wow, that is expensive. I do all of my own maintenance on my Duramax and it cost me about $50-$75 to do filters and oil every 10k miles. I still don't see where everyone is getting this diesel is more expensive to maintain

Jason Harrison Cummins filters are a $100 for the two if you buy them.

They do !!!

Yah I was gonna say, go with a 5500/550 with an 11ft bed!! U just have to make it a flatbed

How wide though?🤔

Kmsl 😂😂

Chris Rowlison so a 5500/550 is considered a 2 ton ? So 450/4500 is 1.5 ton

Do you live in the Denver area?

I hear that is the best transmission

The Fast Lane Truck sadly I do not, but I'm up for a reason to road trip

Christopher Brown I don't know if it's the best one, but I like

I’ve heard nothing but good things I work with a guy that has one and he loves it

It probably broke down, as Ford trucks tend to do when TFL tests them.

Andrew Mendoza even with that 1700lb payload?

How? Styling is objective and the Cummins motor is fantastic. The Ram interiors are great and they have a lot of options that Ford and GM do not carry. I personally don't care for what GM offers because Ford and Ram do everything better. However all Truck brands are great nowadays...and expensive haha

Jessa Phillips lmao. Ok mr 1980. U sound like a ford fan boy. I love my 3/4 ton ram with coils!

Jessa Phillips I had no problems with my 16 ram mega cab limited Cummins.

Actually, leaf springs are the most common to break, second is failed air bags. Coils are the least likely to fail.

Coil springs work just fine for railroad cars. Air bags are on 99% of Semi's and the trailers that they tow. But ya, leaf springs are the way to go on a pickup😂😂

As long as your trailer is not a 5th wheel. 12k plus 5'er pin weight is over 2,500lbs.

big trk i was just gonna say the same thing

eric nichols The problem with that though is you can't bring the family with you if it is your everyday truck.

All 3/4ton+ are full float rears now. The tires have a max lbs per, with dual it's double.

If you're into RVing, especially with a family, then that 10k will put you over your payload limit ... particularly for the one in this video. 1,700 lbs is nothing. A 10k conventional trailer will drop at least 1,200 lbs onto the truck. A family of 4 will be north of 600 lbs. You're already over and we haven't even added the weight distributing hitch, a stick of wood, or even an iPad to the mix. It's worse with a 5er, which have a higher percent on the pin. 3/4 ton excels when you get a gasoline engine and recover ~800 lbs from the diesel option.

truenewb anything is possible when you make stuff up. 🌈

Sure the trucks will happily carry more than the load rating, but hauling more then the truck's rating is illegal and can get you ticketed.

Brad Noyes rules are meant to be broken, especially when they’re as meaningless to the health of society like truck capability numbers.

@@bradnoyes7955 depends..my 12 Ram 2500 can LEGALLY weight up to 12,564 lbs. That's what the registration is labeled at.

They look at vehicle sticker not max registration weight fool

Roger J It depends on if the gvwr has been raised for the 4 wheel drive model to compensate for the added weight of the front axle, springs and transfer case.

You are incorrect, a 2500HD has five leaf springs, four mains and one overload positioned under the mains with no bump stops. The 3500HD has seven springs. Four mains, one overload under the mains and two overloads above with bump stops, but I guess that should ride the same as you claim.👌

@@2015_Rubicnn Wrong. Go look up an OEM replacement leaf spring kit for 2500 and 3500. The 2500 has 5 (4/1) leaves and the 3500 has 6 (5/1) leaves. You're plain wrong.

@@kernmw10 are looking at 1990 leafs springs?

@@2015_Rubicnn No. Modern day trucks. Look it up. I'm right and you're wrong. You want to know how I also know? I own a 2019 Denali 2500 and my next door neighbor owns a 2018 Chevy 3500. www.generalspringkc.com/product_p/22-1649.htm www.generalspringkc.com/product_p/22-1649hd.htm

@@kernmw10 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XSw_4VTg98s.html The pack makes a difference with or not they touch the stops.

But still overweight

@@Thirty-OughtSick Sticker says so, but components are underweight. Argue DOT or actual truck and components abilty?

@@jimmywallace2782 ill argue what the manufacturer rated the truck in court

@@Thirty-OughtSick Thanks for proving my point. The truck is more cabable than the manufacturer's classification sticker but legally because of classification you could be ticketed. Safety is not the issue

StoneysWorkshop 1700 lbs would lay your f150 dragging its ass down the road. It would barely squat a 3/4 ton. Probably sit level with the front

truenewb negative ghost rider. That was a very newb thing to say.

Jon P so you think any 1/2 ton can haul anywhere close to a new 3/4 ton?

truenewb the F150 is available with a payload capacity of up to almost twice that (3,270 lbs "When Properly Equipped"), and 1,750 lbs is not that much, pretty much any 1/2 ton could handle that. That being said, physically the Ram would be capable of hauling more, but it's large curb weight (how much the truck weighs empty) due to the crew cab, long bed, and diesel engine, is so close to the max GVWR for a class 2 truck (6,000-10,000 lbs) that it can only be legally rated at 1751 lbs of payload capacity.

Brad Noyes glad to know someone actually knows what they are talking about. Proof that payload is an imaginary number. Sadly people believe marketing schemes and that’s why there’s thousands of 1/2 tons pulling campers and the whole rig looks like a broken board going down the road. But they think “it’s within payload capacity so it can haul it” lol

KYD is still at his max payload with his 7,800lb. F250 CC Diesel

Big Truck Little RV proof? You make statements constantly without data. Keep rambling and confusing the issue.

The new trailer is bigger than the one that had the 1,400lb. hitch weight. The Hensley WD hitch he has is rated for 1,400lbs. and his truck still squats 2" . Tell me this new bigger trailer has less tongue weight please, no way.

Big Truck Little RV wow i guess i touched.a never here with you. As someone who claims to be somewhat of an expert on all things truck and rv. Hence the title of your RU-vid channel you are a sensitive bloke. Do us a favor, Find a truck from any manufacture you choose that is “properly equipped to tow the maximum advertised capacity. Actually do the math on your own 450. My guess is that you max GCWR long before you hit max tow. BTW sent a copy of your message to Ranch Hand just letting them know your online personality.

So you are advocating overloading a vehicles GVWR now you sound like a Hypocrite. You are so confused also. GVRW GCWR all means the same.

Locked Loaded yea! The Cummins is also closer to 400 hp, and 900 ft pounds of torque.

Thanks, I think. I'll have to look that word up. I graduated from high school in 1975, so I have flashbacks to that 70's look

Maybe for a Ford. The average price is about 79k, ram is about 72k and Chevy is about 69k when you equip them with all the possible options. This is coming straight from online price averages after incentives.

@@yoddy0 Don't forget about the $10,000 they knock off from the sticker. But you always negotiate from dealer cost up, not sticker price down.

@@yoddy0 I'm sorry but you're just plain delirious, uninformed/uneducated or simply "slow". RAM by far has the WORST reliability track record, and this reflects heavily in the way it loses value the fastest. GM is better, when you don't get one of their famous and rather regrettably frequent lemons. Ford is simply best, and all the facts reflect this.

The "half-ton" description loosely refers to the truck's payload capacity. This means that the truck can carry up to 1000 pounds (453.5 kg) of cargo and passengers in the cab and bed. But wait a minute: If you take a look at the stats on modern half-ton pickups, you'll notice that their payload capacities exceed 1000 pounds (453.5 kg). Although early half-ton pickups could carry max loads of 1000 pounds (453.5 kg), since at least the 1960s, new and improved half-ton pickups have been able to safely carry more, surpassing their namesakes [source: Autotropolis]. But old habits die hard, and the name "half-ton" has stuck around to this day. It's still helpful as a general classification term, differentiating the group from the larger, heavy-duty three-quarter-ton pickups and one-ton pickups (also obsolete terms). A better way to find out the maximum payload capacity is to check the individual truck's specs online or in the owner's manual to see what the manufacturer recommends.

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