I work in the oilfield that needs equipment and tools hauled all over the gulf coast. What I have notice about 80% of the trucks that pull a fifth wheel are Fords, and my company only deals with Fords at all. Thank God for that because I wouldn't be happy driving a none Ford for work .
When I was a sales rep for a hydraulic company I used to call on gold mines. One mine near Salmon, Idaho had the Worst road I have ever driven on in my life. It absoluty jared the H*LL out of you to drive on it. The supervisors had pickups that were all beat up and really dirty. They usually keep them for about 12,000 to 15,000 miles. They have had both Chevys and Fords. I asked the shop manager witch one held up the best and he said the Ford did the best...............chevys had too much font end problems. That is good news for all of you looking for a work truck.
This is certainly an interesting question. Working in the oilfield, many of the companies here (and contractors) use Ford SuperDuty's as being the best possible solution for a work truck. They seem to hold up well with few problems. The Chevy's develop many more problems it seems for the few that use them, as they seem to be designed much more as a highway and personal use truck. Not surprisingly then Chev is more common in our town for personal trucks. Dodges are a bit more rare in either case. A few contractors have them, and as always there are a few cruising around town, but both Ford and Chev are more common here for both personal and work use. I have seen one Titan in town, and two of my neighbors have Tundras (one work truck, one is a personal truck) but these are both less common than even the Dodges.
Originally posted by GMCSierra This is certainly an interesting question. Working in the oilfield, many of the companies here (and contractors) use Ford SuperDuty's as being the best possible solution for a work truck. They seem to hold up well with few problems. The Chevy's develop many more problems it seems for the few that use them, as they seem to be designed much more as a highway and personal use truck. Not surprisingly then Chev is more common in our town for personal trucks. Dodges are a bit more rare in either case. A few contractors have them, and as always there are a few cruising around town, but both Ford and Chev are more common here for both personal and work use. I have seen one Titan in town, and two of my neighbors have Tundras (one work truck, one is a personal truck) but these are both less common than even the Dodges.
gotta say I've never seen a Titan or Tundra as a work truck
The company I work for, have Gm trucks and vans, one guy who's a independant contracter has a dodge ram quard cab, my self I have a 04 ford and a gas allowance....my last 02 f-150 sc 4wd, bought new was garbade, for a truck that never went off road it blew out three set's off uper and lower ball jionts, ideler arm and tie rods, sway bar link and bushings, at 50,000 km, the front suspension and stearing were shot.
My boss drove the same roads in a Chev 1500 02 2wd and never had any trouble at all, my 04 is great, no problems and the old gmc and chev's's are still running with no problems...I'm not a chevy guy, But the companys fleet out lived my 02 Ford and thier trucks get run harder than my own truck.
I just had a lemmon, can happen to any one no matter who made the truck...my 04 f-150 is a great truck.
The company I work for use Ford Superdutys (F450's)
The first one I drove was a 97 with a 7.3 L Power Stroke,532 gear ratio and a 5speed. Excellent engine, poor clutch and flywheel set up from the factory, figure every 40k miles doing a clutch job.
The Truck I drive now is a 03 F450 SuperDuty with the new 6.0L Engine, auto trans and 373 ratio rear end. Excellent truck over all however the injectors and turbos are of sub par quality and Ford demands you use factory replacements under warr. The 100k warr is nice and very needed with this enigne. Mine just rolled 100k and I have had 4 complete sets of injectors, 1 High vol oil pump. 3 Turbos and reprogramed the ecm twice. Still not quite right either.
Once they get the bugs worked out of the engine it will make a great truck motor. Brakes tend to be biased toward the rear a bit more than I prefer but other than that nice truck.
I would say ratio of Ford to Chevy/Dodge in the work place is closer to 90% around Cincinnati.
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