Oh man I dunno why but I find that funny.

Occasionaly load in the bed, or towing a trailer with cars/tractors/forklifts/farm implements etc. About once a month or so.

 

Even if you occasionaly tow, pulling stuff around with a gasser is just depressing if you have ever towed with a diesel.

I recently sold my "good" reason to have a diesel truck (5,000 lb. tractor), so now my only excuse is our boat.

I wouldn't care if I had nothing to tow, I spend a lot of time at Home Cheapo, si I have to be able to chuck stuff in the bed.
I'm always going to have a truck of some sort, might as well be diesel powered!

 

Mine is rated at half ton too... im here because I like diesels and want a dodge, but I learned with my Nisssan that a forum is a great way to get the truth about these trucks. A salesman or mechanic isn't going to tell you everything.

 

i bought it because i love big trucks, wanted to add some power and make the 4 ton wonder scream down the 1/4 mile, and i figured id be able to tow and/or haul the quads around...but being 20 i am extremely stupid in my fathers eyes and he does not allow me to tow.

i have towed a car trailer with a malibu once, a 16' trailer with 2 quads on it once, and an 8' trailer twice, once with a street bike, the other time with a set of concrete precast steps. so ive had a trailer on it 4 times in 16 months...not bad. like i said tho pops dont let me tow because i might wreck and someone sue him. apparently i dont know to brake early, check my mirrors when turning, or make sure im clear when switching lanes.

 

Got a truck big enough to fit my bike in the back and wanted a diesel so Cummins looked like the way to go. DRW just happened to be the best deal I could find on a manual.

 

You really needed a "daily driver" in the poll, but since you didn't have that I went with joy of driving. I run empty 99.5% of the time. Every once in a while I might pull a light trailer (relatively speaking), but usually I just drive it and enjoy it.

 

So I'm not the only one that bought a vehicle he didn't need just to get a Cummins?

 

I use my truck

as my daily commuter, tows trailers once a week on average now, and as u can see thru my gallery photos, as pretty much my locker room and personal library on school related materials. Better yet, my mobile office. I can attest to what i have on it as well, 4wd for deer lease and ranches i visit, and most accessories i have on it serve a purpose, so i love my truck, it does what i need it to, torque, power and mileage are awesome, and most of all its paid for...

Tx

 

Mainly used as a daily driver. Only loaded stuff in the bed twice in the 5 months that i've had it

 

pushin snow.......and pullin a car trailer

COop

 

Daily transportation, yard work, home projects, pulling my 5er, and my 20ft. boat on the weekends. I never had a need for a truck until I bought a couple acres of land, then comes the boat, RV, yard work, and then you need a truck.

 

I'm one of those "Joy of driving" folks. My truck makes me smile every time I drive it.

I do work it occasionally. When you have a 1 ton pickup friends tend to ask you to move heavy stuff. This weekend I went with a buddy to pick up a pallet of cement for his addition. 80# bags x 42 gets the back end squattin' a little, but I still had 3/4" to go before the bumpstops. There will be pics when he emails them to me.

 

i pull a 7x14 800 miles a week. it's my job lol

 

When I first got out of college in 2000, I moved to the Vail valley in Colorado. In that area you can't walk two steps w/out tripping over a dozen turbo-diesel pickup trucks. One morning I was leaving a quaint little mexican diner in Gypsum (yeah, that's where they make the drywall) and I heard a straight piped Cummins wind up through the gears getting on to I-70. I was absolutely floored with that sound. Just kinda stood there, like this---- ''Gotta get me one of those'' was all I could think. The rest, as they say...

 

Mine works hard and plays rough. It's already sporting 25k miles and has a couple of work related wounds and the bed is all scratched up. It tows the same 5th wheel my previous Cummins Rams towed, runs the same speeds but at a higher rpm and loves gas! I buy it the good stuff! I like 'em both. The grunt of a diesel and the roar of a gasser.
As fer the 1/2 tons... We have literally dozens of construction sites with the building boom in our area from houses to high rises. Gawd I love the city! The hardest working trucks at any construction site are F-150s. Those poor bass droppings get beat, abused, kicked and battered and keep on going. The boss's dually diesel is usually all clean and protected sportin' a new wax job and wheels sitting out by the road profiling. Nothing wrong with that and there are many many dually diesels out earning a living. But the 1/2 tons earn their keep too. The poor red-headed step children of the construction sites that do most of the dirty work.