What is the most durable, reliable, heavy duty, long lasting, powerful pickup truck for farmers and ranchers in America?

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1. *insert ram award commercial speech*

2. Most of the ranchers I’ve known drove Rams, but that goes against conventional wisdom about the reliability of Chrysler products.

3. An old 6BT powered square body with an SM465, a full floating 14 bolt in the back, a kingpin D60 in the front, and an NP205.

4. Toyota Tundra. It’s the only truck we haven’t been able to tear up doing farm work.

5. The saying goes the perfect truck has a Ram motor, a GM transmission, and a Ford body.

   The cummins 6.7 is a great motor, the allison transmission in the GMs is great, and the overall fit and finish of the fords is usually considered near the top.

   For lighter stuff it’s generally GM/Ford in the top spots, with a surprising showing by Toyota, though in nowhere near the numbers.

6. Everyone has different opinions on this and uses different measures. I will say that when I lived in a farm town the oldest trucks I saw were Rams. That may or may not mean something.

7. A diesel (cummins) Ram would probably grab that title. Those things will run like a champ forever. If you don’t need/want a diesel though, I would go with a ford. Your dollar doesn’t go as far with Ford, but I have always thought the quality was better overall.

8. My folks have a farm and they still have some old D250s with Cummins in them bumbling around the farms. They typically subscribe to the Dodge line even to this day, and I grew up driving around our old farm trucks. They seem to hold up well, although the transmissions can be complete shit, but the Cummins engine is probably the best diesel engine money can buy. I have a 2019 RAM with one now, and I love it.

9. An old square body Chevy or Ford. Something you can work on with tools available at the local hardware store and a transmission made by anyone except Chrysler

10. My grandpas had the same 1997 chevy 2500 duramax for the past 15 years. He grows Corn and uses it to drive the fields and carry straw bales occasionally

11. For whatever reason it seems like Ram (Cummins) and Ford (Powerstroke) have more of a share of the ag market than GM (Duramax)

12. Op trying to start a fight.

13. I’ve driven an old ford my whole driving life! Still going, no sign of stopping soon

14. If I were buying, I would buy a Tundra.

    It matters, but it kind of doesn’t, at the same time. Any truck, under those circumstances, will need regular wrenching.

15. Are you sure you don’t work for the Dodge ram marketing team?

16. Depends on who you ask.

17. Something produced before 1986

18. This question is a good way to start a fight…

19. Toyota Tundra, or Ram with the 5.9 Cummins.

    New American trucks are overall crap (but comfortable) and you should only buy them if you need the towing power of the diesel. Then you should buy a Cummins