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Originally Posted by eurospec1
Why did they even make long bed step sides, if you need the bed space of a longbed, why would you buy a stepside that cuts down the bed capacity so much?
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My guess: It's a
farm thing. Straight bed sidewalls.
Think about trying to stack bales of hay into a fleetside around the fenderwells (I've done it, & it ain't so easy), or having to deal with a broken-leg cow after she fell down in a truck bed while you were hauling her, because of the darn fenderwells there in a fleet bed.
Same "livestock hauling deal" with steel bed floors Vs. wood floors, I'd think.
That steel's gonna be
slick when it's covered with what the animals leave in there ..........
These trucks were built for WORK. Remember when we (some of us) were young & out in the country, you never ever saw a pickup that didn't have a Knapheide brand wood slat "rack" about 5 ft high sides installed on the bed. That's what those stake holes are there in the bedsides for.
Now we enjoy these trucks for their classic & nostalgic beauty, but that's not why they were built.