F250 7.3L No trailer tow !Well I hope you are wrong. As I've said before, The F-600 gasser is a slam dunk for the U-Hauls of the world. Cheaper- and for sure as Laj
'mek suggests, far more user friendly than a 650. But if Ford really wants to be a major player in commercial trucks they need class 7. And broken record that I am, when the 7.3 is available with air brakes, at a huge savings over diesel in terms of first and normal maintenance cost there will be plenty of buyers that need the GVW and reasonable power-assuming they are not running high miles every day at max GVW/GCW. Like building contractors who need that size truck that may hang around all day at a job site either because it carries mounted equipment -like a hydraulic telescopic crane or a vactor or even a 6-8 yd. dump.
Friday I stopped in at local dealership that in last six mos has hired an experienced commercial sales guy. Guys biggest problem is he has all kinds of trucks that are sold and OAP is I guess having to dig out of the backlog. In any case I mentioned how I thought the 7.3 would be a big hit with building contractors-he laughs and says he had a loaded 750 Power Stroke on Lot, 6-8 yd body, Air brakes, Alcoa wheels, all the bells and whistles.
Guy drives by, sees it and stops in. High end home builder-as in 7 figures. Mind you this is a drive by. so my pal has him drive the 7.3 650 he had on lot. Just chassis, no frills. Guy drives the 750 and pays 15 g over the fitted out cost of the 650. Was it the 33,000 gvw or the diesel or the image? Who knows, but you have to cover all the bases.
And by the way, you should see what the heating oil dealers are buying around here-mostly 2800 gal tanks, most popular size, are loaded Petes/KW's or F"liners. Few plain janes.Sun, 05 Jul 2020 02:41:36 +0000
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