Do you put weight in back of your truck?

here in oregon i have 2 80lbs in the back of my truck all the time. it makes the ride so much better and handels just amazlingly... i recomend for everyone to just try some weight in your bed i love it in mine

 

I got a couple of sand bags in the back for just a little extra weight. Probably don't really need it too much since I am in 4WD 90% of the time.

 

i think it helps a lot no matter where you are

 

What is this 4wd thing you guys keep talking about?

 

What's snow?????

 

thanks for talking me into never going their ill stick to the more moderate climates.... for now anyways...... you can always put more clothes on but you can never take off enough clothes is also what my sister from dearborn MI tells me!

 

I keep hearing people say that they dont need weight in the back cause they have 4wheel drive on. I bet that most of you ( not all ) will keep some weight in the back of their trucks if this just try it. Serveral times this year I took out the weight out of the back due to moving furniture and other junk. And sure enough I got caught the next day in a snow storm, I was to lazy to put the weight back in after I was done. It makes a big difference even with the 4wheel on. But if I lived in a place that only really got a few inches now and then I probably wouldnt bother with weight either. If it gets much worse on my street I will need to put on tire chains. My road is terrible in the winter.

 

I do so that I dont have to drive around in 4wd all winter.

 

If we have a lot of snow, it means i have alot of snow in the bed also!
problem solved.

 

Yep, I put about two hundred pounds of sand (bagged) in my bed in the winter, my last truck I did it with, this will be my first winter with the taco but I will still do it even with 4x4..

 

any need for extra weight if you have a few adults in the back seat? or is that not close enough to the rear axle?

 

I can't comment on that as I have 1 teenage child...and she is a light weight

 

I used to put sand bags in the right rear of the bed because of the taco lean when lowered. I installed beefedtaco/streetaco custom blocks. Kinda uneven still but its just when i full tank it with fuel.

Truck dont have a rear bumper, no spare tire, and i only weigh 130 lbs. 6 PSI of boost is pretty fast!

 

I had some weight in mine, and when it slid up near the cab it was useless. If I kept it near the tailgate I actually noticed an improvement. So more people in cab may not help.

 

3 bags of quik-crete tube sand = 180 lbs helps a lot imo

 

I generally keep about 180 lbs in the bed throughout winter, and when it gets really nasty I'll add a little more (300 lbs). Around here, we tend to get ice about as often as snow, and the extra weight really helps.

 

i use a suretrax water bladder that is made to frez (fucked the SP) works good and adds about 3-400 lbs

 

I use studded tires and 4wd in the winter. No need for weight with 4wd here. I find added weight really makes stopping distances increase by a great bit.

 

Its a damn truck.................why own one if you dont use the bed.....I cannot stand the all show no go trucks................