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Originally Posted by slow04
Are you required to run a long bed truck? Seems like a short bed would be better....
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There is a wheel base rule, and actually the shorter wheel base trucks do not pull near as well as the longer wheel base trucks. The shorter wheel base trucks do not want to stick the front end restaurant down like the longer trucks. The Hitch point is the same, the longer wheel base are used for leverage. Same way with drag racing, short wheel base cars are much more prone to being harder to drive, pull the front tires. Same way with trucks, even with 1000 lbs hanging off of the front of the truck. The extra leverage out front helps hold the front tires to the ground.
We also build the trucks to do what is called "half tracking" Where the rear tires do not follow the exact path of the front. They are usually sit out so that atleast have of the rear tire is always in fresh dirt.