We like the blue also but couldn’t locate one so went with second choice

 

Love that blue!

 

This Truck is gorgeous!!

 

Anyone else notice that the cab lights and the front clearance light on the rear fender of the 2020 duallys are a clear lens instead of amber?

 

Congratulations!

Congratulations, that's a pretty one!

 

They do have Amber bulbs as required.

 

Mighty Pretty Blue......... and the truck too. !!
F-450 ?

 

Yes Roy, the pretty blue dually posted by SuperchargedPSD is an F-450. The tires and wheels give it away.

 

Yes same truck as in the post before my last.

 

Thanks folks....... Thought it was. I keep debating with myself over a F-350 DRW or a F-450 for my next truck......... (2021)

 

SaliorMan Roy: Going on my 6th SD since 2010. I have a 450 order, juyst waiting on Ford to ship it.

IF I had it to do over again. Would have NEVER bought anything other than a daully and never bought anything other than a F 450, would have saved a lot of money and bought less SD's in the process...

 

Well I've never really been interested in a dually. I've had my '99 f250 srw for 13ish years(and still have it), I bought a 14 f250 srw and loved it. They both towed our 30' and now 38' travel trailer perfectly .. Or so I thought.
I recently purchased an '18 F350 dually, and after towing our current 38'travel trailer for the first time (this week) I wish I would've bought a dually to start with. It's so much more stable than the SRWs and they both had an air suspension system.

 

Agreed, and I did exactly this. When the 99 up model year Ford Super Duty first began selling in early 1998, I waited a couple of production years for Ford to work out the first year shortcomings (Ford did, with the 99.5 update), and bought a 2000 model year F-550 DRW personal pickup, paid in cash, and saved a lot of money over the next 20 years, as I've never needed more in a pickup since. I still drive this pickup today.

While I've ordered new chassis cabs for commercial use since, I've never needed more pickup. The weight carrying capacity comes in handy at the unanticipated times like when someone was giving away 6,000 lbs of solid cut stone blocks on craigslist, an unbelievable find. In a flash I ran out there and stacked it all in my pickup, no trailer required, hauled it all safely home (I could feel it, even in an F-550) and was able to put the stone to immediate use, saving a lot of money.

My first Ford pickup was a 1963 unibody F-100, 262 cu in, 3 on the tree. I learned from that pickup that I never wanted a unibody pickup again (corrosion at cab to bed juncture worsened by the flexing at that joint), never wanted a fuel tank in the cab again (fumes and fire/explosion proximity in collision), and could occasionally use 4WD. I replaced the '63 with a 1979 F-250 4x4, which solved the 4WD, solved the fuel tanks (it had two tanks, between the frame rails, not in the cab), and solved the unibody problem. But while the 79 brought a bit more power with 400 Cu In, and a bit more weight carrying capacity (at the cost of sturdiness, the '63 was a tank, having more metal in the dashboard than most trucks had in the entire cab), I then decided I didn't like my head banging against the back window of a regular cab, and wanted the stability of dual rear wheels.

That's when I decided that the next personal truck I buy will be the last personal truck I'll ever need. The 550 CC DRW 4x4 has lasted 20 years thus far. If I can get another 20 years out of it, I'll have gotten my meager money's worth. Beyond that, I'll be too old to drive one anyway, if even here. I just can't see trading every few years for incremental upgrades to what essentially amounts to a tub on wheels. Getting an extra pair of wheels under the tub at the outset will definitely save money over the long run, if the use and purpose of the pickup is to carry heavy stuff.

 

My next one will be a F450.

 

Good posts folks....... Thanks for the stories and info......