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Used Pickup Truck Buying Guide: Start With the ConfigurationThe federal record knows a used pickup’s engine better than it knows its bed. Bed length came back on 2.3 per cent of 4,903 decoded pickups; curb weight on 0.8.
Towing Mirrors: The Accessory With a Legal DimensionA truck that is perfectly legal empty can stop being legal the moment a wide trailer is hitched to it.
Towing Capacity: The Advertised Figure Is Not Your TruckTongue weight comes out of payload before any passengers do. That is why the number in the brochure is rarely the number that stops you.
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Pickups are bought for a job, so the buying decision should start with the job rather than the badge. These guides work through the questions that actually determine whether a used truck suits you: what you tow and how often, whether a diesel’s fuel and maintenance economics ever repay its price premium at the mileage you drive, what payload really means once passengers and a hitch weight are counted, and which components on high-mileage work trucks are expensive enough to walk away from. Heavy-duty pickups sit outside EPA fuel-economy labelling, so we explain how to estimate running costs without it.