OmegaF150

If you got the dough, a trailer is much easy to load and unload IMO. So it makes sense for us weekend warriors.

I wonder which one is the bigger seller in the screw market.

pb65stang

You may be being sarcastic, and if you are I apologize, but - it's not even close on which one is more popular. Just a random guess, but I would bet it's close to a 10:1 ratio of short bed to long bed. Just from what I see on the road and at dealers.

jwanck11

You can fit a 4X8 sheet of whatever or 8' lumber with the tailgate down with room to spare. In the 5.5' bed, those items will go right to the edge of the gate. Also, it is a lot easier for a front end loader to hit a 6.5' bed with mulch, dirt, stone, whatever.

Yes, the turn radius is a bit wider, but I came from a CC 8' F350, so.....

Towing is a little different due to turning radius, it is easier to back up IMHO.

BlackBoost

But those are spread across the 3 cab sizes. Assuming the OP has already decided on a cab size, then there's only 2 options of wheel base per cab size.


Reg cab
6.5ft bed : 122.4
8 ft bed : 141.1


SuperCab
6.5 ft bed : 145
8 ft bed : 163.7


SuperCrew
5.5 ft bed : 145
6.5 ft bed : 156.8


And yes, the different box sizes do change the wheel base. The SuperCab with the 8ft bed is the longest, and probably the only one that would give you trouble in tight parking lots.


If you've already decided on a cab size, then the bed size isn't much of an issue because the wheelbase difference is only about a foot (11-19" difference). That doesn't affect the maneuvering much. BUT, the difference between a Reg Cab 6.5' box and SuperCab 8' box is about 3.5 feet. That will make a bigger difference.

Danielw1

Maneuverability sucks with 157" but as soon as you load the whole bed up it's worth it. Although, I did have the 5.5 bed and it's not too bad.. just pile it high or let it hang out!

TX150

I agree I very rarely see a Screw with the 6.5' bed in Texas, but when reading around this forum and looking at others trucks posted on here it seems that a much larger number of the Canadian members have the 6.5' bed.

Maybe Ford sends all of the longer beds to our neighbors to the North?

Great white

iTrader: (1)

I can't speak for central or western Canada, but I'd say in Atlantic Canada the shortbox outsells the longbox by a fair margin. My longbox is pretty much the only supercrew longbox I've seen. The lots are full of shortboxes and that's about all I've ever noticed on the road. I had to hunt pretty hard to find my truck, there were only 5 east of Montreal with the options I wanted (Lariat, SuperCrew, Longbox, max tow) and mine was the only black one. I actually wanted magnetic, black was a second choice. Was a couple dozen shortboxes available though, any color I wanted. Just couldn't live with a short box. Like I mentioned before, the 6.5' longbox is even too short for my preferences. But the dealer is going to stock what sells....

I'd say it has mostly to do with the fact I seldom see a supercrew around here without a child seat (or two) in the back. People are using them as family cars, in which case the bed is more of a large trunk than for the traditional truck uses...

tvsjr

To me, the 5.5' bed looks horrible... it's actually worse on the 2015+ trucks. It looks dumpy... you've got lots of cab and this little dinky bed. Meh.

I drive my 6.5' bed all over the D/FW MetroMess and have never had a time where I said "damn I wish I had the shorter bed". That said, I spend a fair amount of my life driving big red 40'+ trucks around, so perhaps my opinion is biased.

It's almost funny when I drive my wife's Explorer... I go to back in a space and have to stop and think about how much I'm turning the wheel, lest I smack the vehicle next to me.

Scrappy Doo

iTrader: (1)

To me, the 6.5 bed looks bad.

But to each their own.

It's nice to have options and to be able to get what suits your needs.

BlackBoost

To me the screw short box was the only option because that extra foot makes a difference when parking in a garage. That extra foot of bed does nothing for my needs hauling-wise. Usually when camping, I have most of the gear in the cab anyways, mostly to make sure it stays dry because of our random rainstorms out here. Only thing I really need the bed for are coolers and firewood, and sometimes the bikes.


Tons of room for groceries too, and like when I was hauling donations for Ft McMurray when the wildfires destroyed their city:









Maybe the extra foot would have helped here. Over the couple of days I did this I ended up with 5 full truckloads of donations, full bed and cab filled to the roof.


People can be awesome sometimes