American made?

Dune said:
I had the truck repainted.
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It doesn't matter. Even the best paint job is never as good as the factory finish. Unless you got one of those off years when GM screwed up the paint on literally hundreds of thousands of vehicles.

The fact is that aluminum in electrical contact with steel, painted or not, will act as a sacrificial anode, disintegrating to a white powder over time. Same as zinc. That's why old cars with chrome plated "pot metal" mirrors and ornamentation would have the chrome bubble off in just a few years.

I first learned this when I was a high school kid and used a stop sign to patch a hole in the floor of my rusting old Ford. The aluminum sign lasted about 4 months. Since your truck body is relatively larger with respect to the steel structure, it will take a lot longer to disintegrate.
 
Damn Yankee said:
Yes. It's called "cargo". :palm:
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Dont you have forklifts with skilled drivers in America?

Actually 'cargo' usually goes on ships. People go in cars. I suppose one could affix a roof rack but that would more likely be for luggage than cargo.
Either you live in a weird place or English is not your first language!
 
Lowaicue said:
Dont you have forklifts with skilled drivers in America?

Actually 'cargo' usually goes on ships. People go in cars. I suppose one could affix a roof rack but that would more likely be for luggage than cargo.
Either you live in a weird place or English is not your first language!
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CARGO
: the goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, airplane, or vehicle
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m-w.com

:palm:

And for the record, the video that you were referring to was comparison of two pickup truck frames.
 
Lowaicue said:
It's hardly worth owning a car if you only do 1000 miles a year! One of the reasons I no longer own a car is that for many years I was easily clearing 100,000 miles a year. Just imagine how much shite that put into the atmosphere!
Life is easy without a car.
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Just curious.... what did you do that made you drive 273 miles + each day of the year on average???

That equates to about 4-5 hours minimum per day just driving. Seems highly unproductive.
 
I have worked in several GMC & Chevy trucks from 1500s to 3500s, and they have mostly been good trucks.

But the best truck I ever owned was an old Toyota SR-5 that had almost 300k miles on it when I sold it. Not big enough for what I do now, but that old green thing never let me down.
 
Superfreak said:
Just curious.... what did you do that made you drive 273 miles + each day of the year on average???

That equates to about 4-5 hours minimum per day just driving. Seems highly unproductive.
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My office was 72 miles from my home and I managed home sales for a division of the co. I usually worked 6 days a week and sometimes I would drive to my office then to London HO then to (say) Devon in a day. Not too difficult when you are young.
 
Lowaicue said:
My office was 72 miles from my home and I managed home sales for a division of the co. I usually worked 6 days a week and sometimes I would drive to my office then to London HO then to (say) Devon in a day. Not too difficult when you are young.
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thanks.... but no matter how young, I would hate that. No way I could be in a car that much in a year. Props to you for surviving that.
 
That's what salesmen do. I knew a guy that drove an average of 150k miles/ year selling aircraft parts. His territory was the east coast.
 
Superfreak said:
thanks.... but no matter how young, I would hate that. No way I could be in a car that much in a year. Props to you for surviving that.
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That is one reason I have not owned a car for 10 years.
When you dont have a car, you allow yourself more time, arrive at your destination in a better frame of mind, can read a book or newspaper or even work on whichever means of transport you decide on. Oh, and when you come out of the pub, pissed at gone midnight, it doesn't take you an hour to remember which floor and which bay you left the damn thing in and there is little chance of being breathalised and banned from driving.
 
Lowaicue said:
It's hardly worth owning a car if you only do 1000 miles a year! One of the reasons I no longer own a car is that for many years I was easily clearing 100,000 miles a year. Just imagine how much shite that put into the atmosphere!
Life is easy without a car.
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It is not a car. It is a utility truck, which means it is a tool box on wheels. I carry over 3000 pounds of tools on that truck, and 9 times out of ten, I can complete a job without leaving the jobsite for tools, supplies or consumables.
 
Damn Yankee said:
I had a good friend that grew up in Falmouth, and my family still has a vacation house there. His brother was a fisherman. The dude got so drunk one night while out to sea he fell overboard and no one knew he was missing until breakfast the next morning. :(
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Sorry to hear that. I was a fisherman myself. I used to fish out of Woods Hole. In fact, one of my boats was wrecked just off the Coast Guard station in Woods Hole, when the captain fell asleep with the autopilot steering.
 
Dune said:
It is not a car. It is a utility truck, which means it is a tool box on wheels. I carry over 3000 pounds of tools on that truck, and 9 times out of ten, I can complete a job without leaving the jobsite for tools, supplies or consumables.
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I'm glad you have a job. Not too common in today's America.

I knew someone once who worked with their hands and tools and stuff, but he was OK really except that he slurped his soup.
 
Lowaicue said:
I'm glad you have a job. Not too common in today's America.

I knew someone once who worked with their hands and tools and stuff, but he was OK really except that he slurped his soup.
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Cool. So I guess you are so advanced over those who use their hands to work that your brain activates the keyboard with no assistance from your fingers?
 
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