pappawheely
Autonomous4X4
I've had both. If I lived back East I would probably want a short bed. Living in the West I would not want to go with anything less than a long bed. YMMV.
Something else to note, as I figure the majority of fear of a long bed is length and turning radius, is that the newer rigs, being all coil sprung, turn MUCH better than the older leaf sprung rigs.
Has anyone here made a sleeping platform in a full sized truck that goes across the width of the vehicle rather than lengthways? You couldn't do it in a "compact truck" but some full sized vehicles are nearly 6' wide.
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I've wondered if it would work to do, for example, a sleeping setup in the back seat of a crew-cab truck, basically kind of like a "sleeper" arrangement in a semi? With the sleeping portion taken care of by the width of the vehicle, length would no longer be an issue (and also you would have the entire space of the bed for equipment, while having a safe and secure interior sleep area.)