Re: Ford rules 
. . . NOT!
Over the years I've never owned a GM truck (although about half of the vehicles I've owned were GM products), three Ford trucks and six Dodge trucks . . .
Although I did learn to pull travel trailers at the ripe young age of 12 in a 1972 Chevy pickup!
My current daily driver car is a 2010 Chevy Cobalt . . . nice little car (I call it my 'Poor man's Porche' and has garnered me two speeding tickets in the last year costing me over $400 - DOH!
).
I have to say that the Dodge trucks have served me well!
My current 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 4X4 is now the vehicle that I have owned the longest out of any vehicle I have ever owned in my entire 54-year life on this planet of ours!
She is starting to get a little tired (I would be too after towing a big trailer in the mountains for years) . . .
I had a Dodge 1-ton van before my current truck that had a short life (only owned it for four months) . . . I got rear-ended while waiting for a red light which destroyed the van (ironically, a Ford F150 4x4 hit me).
That van was a trailer-hauling beast!
It pulled our old 1978 Coachman 24-foot travel trailer without issue through the mountains or anywhere we wanted to go with it!
Before that . . . a 1987 B-250 Dodge cargo van that had 40,000 miles on it when I bought it, and 202,000 miles on it when I sold it 13 years ago . . . still had the original motor, tranny and exhaust system on in, and as far as I know it is still roaming the streets of Aurora, Colorado (last time I saw it on the road was a little over a year ago).
The three Ford trucks I've owned (two vans and one Ford Bronco II) . . . one of the vans was the biggest piece of junk I've ever owned, the other van was an Aerostar cargo van, which was a very nice van, but was also destroyed less than a year after I bought it in a rear-ender while waiting for a red light (must be my curse), and the Bronco II, which was one of my top three favorite vehicles that I've ever owned, but just seemed to love being in the repair shop at $1000+ a pop each and every time it needed to see the car doctor (which was very frequently).
Now, in my current 1996 Dodge Ram I've been rear-ended three times, and each time not a scratch, but destroyed the front end of each vehicle that hit me!
The only dents I have are from shopping carts and one on the rear bumper from my 2013 Trail Runner where I bumped up against my trailer while parking the truck in our yard and hitting the ball coupling on the front of the trailer too hard!
And, other than brakes and normal maintainence (like new shocks, front-end parts and u-bolts) . . . the only repairs I've had to do was a new water pump, radiator and catalytic converter, although right now I am trying to figure out why the 4-wheel drive is not working at the moment.
And I remember when I bought it that all of the pundits told me that my tranny and motor would die at or before 60,000 miles . . . but right now it has 161,000 miles on the original motor . . . the original tranny . . . the original exhaust system . . . all pulling a big trailer!
I've had the best of luck with Dodge trucks over the years . . .
My wife claims that I love my current Dodge truck more than I do her . . . DOH!
Anyway . . . I will be buying a new truck in the next year or two and am looking at all of the brands . . . Ford . . . Chevy . . . GMC . . . Toyota Tundra . . . and RAM!
So far, RAM is my still favorite . . . but I do have an open mind and will give all brands a good look!
Still . . . I think I will end up with a Dodge RAM over a GM or Ford (
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'R'ebuilt
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But . . . I do like the new Ford trucks that I've looked at recently . . . so you never know!
