Anybody have a 4500 Dodge crew cab rigged out?? I'm wondering about the gooseneck and if you have enough room to leave it at the location over the axle with your welder and stuff in place. I'm going to look at a bed today at a local upfitter. Dodge states they have a location already set for a bolt on gooseneck ball. I'd love to build a bed but time is an issue. It appears I am gaining almost a foot on bed length over my existing rig.
Picked up a 2013 Ram 4500 yesterday, 4x4, Aisin, crew cab, bells and whistles, ugly steel wheels and plain old white(Eewww!). This truck is a monster though, need a ladder to get into this thing, especially the back seat! I'll be cruising the highways and biways of America with a new helper and all of my gear barely fits on my current rig. My tv is my passenger in the front seat so adding a guy and all of his gear he would be sitting in the back of the truck someplace because of my tv! I went with the 4500 because I know I won't be able to overload it doing what I have been doing. The 3500's were right on the brink and my current truck I know for a fact is already at it's max. I contacted Ford and Dodge thru the internet and Dodge was the only one that responded, apparently Ford does not need my business!
I don't know if the 3500 Dodge cab and chassis is about the same when it comes to bed length or not, maybe if you have a 3500 rigged out what is your gooseneck situation? I really don't know if I will need to haul a gooseneck or not. All I own is bumper pulls and the company I will be working for uses mostly bumper pulls to haul gear but they do have a gooseneck to haul steel to jobsites if it is not being delivered. They also use it to haul equipment to jobsites as well so I might end up doing something like that for them from time to time.
Thanks for any info!
Shawn