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Which of the "Big 3" 3/4 and 1 ton diesels is most popular where you live?

Old Nov 20, 2007 | 09:24 PM
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1. Ford
2. Chevy
3. Dodge
4. GMC
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 09:27 AM
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As was mentioned earlier in this thread, for contractors and such, Fords seem to be the going thing with a few Chevy thrown in.
As for personal trucks, I think there are more Doges than anything else.
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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I see tons of 2nd gen cummins here, Ford next, then 3rd gen dodge, then chevy.
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 03:58 PM
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Did some more watching and counting and Dodge and Ford are running pretty much even still.

I was over in Spring and up through Conroe and it's still neck and neck.

I would agree that most "company" trucks tend to be Fords.

There are LOTS and LOTS of 1/2 tons out there and I think GM has THAT market covered....
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Old Nov 21, 2007 | 04:37 PM
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north georgia chevy/gmc, south georgia-ford
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Old Nov 22, 2007 | 05:13 AM
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Around here I mostly see Dodge, farm community and all. At the auction barn the parking lot is usually stacked with Dodge and checkered with the ferds and occasionally a chevy...not new but old dually gasser kinda stuff.

Seems our "horse people" no offense horse people, tend to have the "king ranch" fords and Duramax for their...."farm". The real farmers around here that have horses are usually the ones in the Dodge. Just an observation, again no offense to the horse only owners.

I see the duramax on the highway to work, hot shots usually. Out on the jobsite while I'm bouncing around middle, Tn in the Furd f550 I see a lot of 350/450/550's as work/company trucks, some gm gassers and rarely dodges.

Around home though(I live 70 miles or so from work) it's Dodge Cummins country.
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Old Nov 22, 2007 | 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by J OOPS
Dodge is huge up here 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen and you cannot find a 1st Gen for sale at all nobody will give them up. Dodge seems to be the only diesel that starts easy in cold weather. The dealers sell the Rams with block heaters, posi traction and your choice of gearing 3:73, 3:92 and 4:10 also the bigger amp alternators for snow plows and lighting accessories. Havn't heard of anybody having to plug their Diesels in until about negative 20.
I agree when I was up there thats mostly what I seen

Here its Fords, lots of fleet trucks
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Old Nov 22, 2007 | 10:14 AM
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Around here it's all Ford. Most of them are stock although the lifted truck of choice is ford aswell. Any Dodge cummins you see is usually mean and there are a few dmaxes aswell but low numbers. I'd say it's about 80% Ford, 10% Dodge, 10% GM. The ford guys seem to know nothing about diesels either which would explain their purchase!
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Old Nov 22, 2007 | 11:22 AM
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GM, there is a Tahoe/Suburban plant 20 mile from here so ther is a lot of loyalty in that direction.
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Old Nov 22, 2007 | 01:30 PM
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Ford's. Barely any Dodge's, and even less Chevy's.
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Old Nov 22, 2007 | 03:28 PM
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Around here I would say Dodge and Fords are the top but there a several dmax's around too. More young kidds have diesels in my town than any town I've ever been too. Most farmers have Dodge and Fords. I work about 30 miles away from home and most there is mostly 450/550 fords for service trucks and the farmers that come into work have old Chevy gassers for farm trucks.
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Old Nov 22, 2007 | 09:55 PM
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Not too far from you deereguy just my observations it's a pretty good mix here if I was pressed I'd say Dodge/Ford about even maybe give Ford a slight edge and less Duramaxes but you still see plenty of those. On the half tonners it's a lot of Fords and Chevys with Dodge coming in third place there.
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Old Nov 23, 2007 | 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by J OOPS
Dodge is huge up here 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen and you cannot find a 1st Gen for sale at all nobody will give them up. Dodge seems to be the only diesel that starts easy in cold weather. The dealers sell the Rams with block heaters, posi traction and your choice of gearing 3:73, 3:92 and 4:10 also the bigger amp alternators for snow plows and lighting accessories. Havn't heard of anybody having to plug their Diesels in until about negative 20.
C'mon man -20*....hey I'm a Dodge/Cummins fan too, but here, and when I lived in AK if I started her at 0*F after sittin overnight, she was angry!!!
I always plug in if I'm gonna drive the next day and it's gonna get below about 15*F at night. It's just smart to.
Where in AK do you live? and how often do you plug in?
Anyway back to the poll....same like others have said, the farmers and hay guys mostly drive Cummins....most (60%) of the tourists in the summer are driving flowerjokes....don't see too many Duracraps, except for my neighbors' that sits in the garage all the time
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Old Nov 23, 2007 | 02:30 AM
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No doubt about it, this is Dodge country.
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Old Nov 23, 2007 | 11:40 AM
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Around north central Nevada pretty much all company and contractor trucks are Ford. For personal trucks I'd say Ford and Dodge are neck-and-neck right now - but with Dodge gaining rapidly due to the issues with the Ford/International 6.0 and some really aggressive deals from the Dodge dealers. At the mines ALL trucks are Fords. The ranching community is pretty much all Ford with a few 1st and 2nd generation Dodges thrown in. A year ago this past fall I was driving through the Catlow Valley in Oregon just north of the Nevada border. This is really isolated ranch country - the nearest town was Burns, a tiny burg some 100 miles to the north. I had to wait a bit because of a cattle drive crossing the road to a complex of corrals at one of the large ranches near the road. This being the fall "gather", all the neighboring ranches were there to help sort the cattle. In the field being used for a parking lot were all the pickups hooked to horse trailers - and I found it interesting that out of the 29 trucks there, 28 were Fords of various vintages. The lone oddball was a Dodge Dakota hooked to a little two-horse trailer!
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