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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] FauxPseudo 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The bed height is too tall to be comfortable. One of the other things happening on larger trucks is the bed length keeps getting shorter. A standard 8-ft. Long boards stick too far out the back end and we've reduced overall carrying capacity over previous generation small trucks. And by sticks too far out I mean way outside the bed. Drywall will break under those conditions. Do an image search for "Ford Maverick plywood" And you will see the potential danger here.

Edit, pretty much had to retype the whole thing because voice to text had badly messed it up and I didn't realize that at the time of posting