I have a friend that has seen one. My friend thinks it was a medium duty, but it had no badges. The truck was a 2wd, but had a solid front axle, dual rear wheel and about a nine foot flatbed. The frame was not the same as a pickup, from behind the cab all the way to the rear it was strait/flat(no hump over the rear axle). Sounds like a cool truck to me.

Paul

 

Dodge needs a C&C and a medium duty...

Maybe they realized the money to be made from these two items?

Where did he see it? DC testing a new frame design?

 

Hmmm.... I'm currently thinking about trading up for a medium duty, set up as a hauler. If this were actually true, it might be worth waiting for...

 

Dodge is coming out with a C&C for 2007. This has been confirmed by my Ford/ Dodge dealer for our fleet trucks. Dodge does not currently advertise their trucks as flat bed capable unless you get their "pick up box delete". We are stuck running 6. oh no's because of this issue. We are eagerly awaiting the new Dodge C&C's so that we can get rid of these terrible Ford's.

 

This is just a guess, but I think the new frame would be for medium duty trucks only. I don't think you will see a one ton mega cab longbox, that some people would like to see.

 

i thought i have seen a one ton mega cab in texas state fair. but i could be wrong

 

you did but it had a shortbox....

 

I've noticed that the latest fleet of trucks our city purchased are all gas engine Fords. I asked why no diesel and he mentioned that they had many problems with the 6.0 psd. These things idle alot and only get city driving. They were constantly in the shop. They rotate the fleet every 3 years so I wonder if they would consider a Dodge C/C in 2009?

 

Basically what it comes down to is low bid. Since I work for a state college I have to deal with this. We write the specs for the new vehicle (car,truck,backhoe etc) then send out the bid specs to dealers with a closing date. On that date all bids are opened and 99.9% of the time the low bid wins. So in my fleet we have (1) dodge caravan, (2) ford windstar, (1)chevy malibu, (5) ford taurus, (4)ford trucks, (2) ford excursions, (2) dodge trucks, (2)chevy trucks. It's a real pain with maintenance with all the different filters and such to keep. We always get gas engines for our maintenance fleet (trucks) because of so many different drivers and the frequent amount of short trips.