There are trucks the there are pickups. What trinket toys and accessories one buys for one may not always look good or be practical for the other. While both share some of the same basic components, what a OTR truck is equipped with, while in some ways may look bullish on a pickup, still not always. Then there are the different sizes of trucks.
While a single axle truck with big knobby tires is great for a 4x4 or off road pickup, is not very useful on a day to day, dually work truck. Even if it is a one and a half ton, flat bed.
The one side of this and I have to say this, as it was and is another time I can say , “I told you so” diesels have come a long way from where they were even 15 years prior. The idea of a performance diesels even in light duty form, were as I was told years ago was a joke. Who would buy a hot rod diesel? Now that BullyDog amongst others that are out there, folks are no longer saying that. I can remember at the 1988 SEMA show in Lost Wages Nevada, when I had the chance to break bread with Vic Edlebrock Junior, after a marketing seminar there , when I said, that Edlebrock ought to make performance products for upcoming automotive and performance diesels. He told me then , that his company would have to retool , for that, and that at the time was not ROI to do so. Guess he done changed his mind huh? Same thing went, when the very first Dixie Diesel Shop opened in Blackfoot Idaho in the fall of 1989. Everybody there thought I should be in the big brick building at the end of Alice street in Blackfoot, for opening what was then cutting edge of a performance diesel shop. With now 9 Dixie Diesel Shop(s) open and two new ones, one in Burley and one to begin construction near Caldwell Idaho in 2013 , guess that bit of crazy was not so nuts after all.
When I see the signs on a building that says truck accessories, I think of chrome, and trick items for OTR trucks, not pickups. Or not only for pickups. I think there ought to be a distinguishing difference, and the sign read, pickup accessories. Of course there are those parts that cross over. What works on a one ton tow truck can easily be used on a carrier or even a heavy hooker. But what about the trucks albeit baby trucks, but commercial light duty trucks? Who is carrying the parts and trick accessories for those trucks, more over making them?
That in my next edition.
Keep it tween the ditches,
Quote of the day:
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns
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