• dom@lemmy.ca
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      20 hours ago

      Im uninformed about this. Why cant a truck with a unibody have a bigger bed

      • VioletSoftness@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        19 hours ago

        you put in a bigger bed and customers will try to load it up and bend the unibody frame. you overload your ladder frame pickup and you might damage the bed or the tires but aren’t likely to render the entire vehicle unsafe.

        ladder frame is capable of supporting much more weight than any unibody due to the design that separates load bearing concerns from body concerns.

      • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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        18 hours ago

        Because a bed made of, and supported by just sheet metal can’t have the same strength as a bed that is supported by essentially 6” steel girders.