We will make sure to tell the one guy that visits.....

Chevy appears to still make them.

I absolutely hate long beds on trucks. Mostly just guys making up for other shortcomings.

I bought in 2013 a brand new at the time Chevy with an 8 ft. bed. It was what the dealer said was I think called a “work truck” package. It is Stripped down version.

It is a single cab. Therefore I am not driving a too long to me vehicle.

I have no use for a truck with anything but an 8 ft. Bed.

I see trucks with the short beds that then have a toolbox. The area left is worthless.

Chevy and GMC still make 8 a foot box. Might have to order one as not many around.

I had to order my 14 Ram with a regular cab and 8 foot bed, Had a quad cab with short bed and it was useless as a truck, so traded for the 14. I use it in the woods trapping and didn't want anything too long.

I only buy cab & chassis pickups. They are 8’6”!! I need all the room I can get.

I have an 88 Mitsubishi mighty max with a. 6 foot bed. I can fit 4x8 sheets of material if I put 8 ft 2x4s on top of the taigate for the sheets to rest on. I fit my 10 ft kayak and 4 five gallon buckets just fine.

I've owned several pickups, all 8ft beds, and agree that these short beds suck.
My wife owns a mini van, you can fit a 8ft sheet of plywood inside and as a bonus you can fit 10ft lumber (2 x 12's no less) and 12ft pcs of trim inside.
My last working vehicle I owned was a GMC 3/4 ton van with the extended body. That beast was a hauler.
I prefer a van, have all your stuff locked up and away from prying eyes.
I'd buy a minivan, than a work van over a short box pickup any day, even over a 8ft box pickup.
Pickups are kinda useless to me, a minivan will do everything I need and lots more than a pickup will.

My Dad was a drywall contractor for many years. He used the same method to haul 12ft sheets of rock in a 8ft box pickup back when trucks were just trucks.
Load up a pickup with a bunch of rock in the back and steering sure gets light.

You guys that are 8ft or die must not live in civilization, I need a crew cab because I have to regularly haul my kids around, and with a 8 ft bed i would have to park who knows where and some of the parking lots wouldn't even be able to navigate with that long of a wheelbase due to the curb radiuses. When I need to haul something that won't fit in my 6 1/2 ft bed with a toolbox I use ...... a trailer. Heck of a lot easier to hook up to it for the few times a month I can't fit stuff in the bed than driving the Lusitania around all year.....

Plus, like Boco said, I can lock stuff securely inside the cab on the back seat when I need to.

Lol. Lusitania.

Civilization is overrated

I agree. Good one. I have a topper on a quad cab 6.5 foot bed. .......and a utility trailer. Great for camping and towing but I don’t use my truck for work. If I still worked construction I’d buy a regular cab with an 8 foot box for a work truck.

What? Kids don't ride in the 8 foot bed with all the empties?

P.S. My mini van has an 8 ft bed That was why I bought it.

An 8 foot bed with extended cab is absurd, an extended cab with 6.5 bed with a tool box is useless, Id prefer a reg cab with 8 ft bed, but got to admit the extended cab is pretty useful, nobody rides back there but you can get all your tools in without a box, throw my foul weather gear in and it dries, groceries when its raining, etc. I miss the 8 ft bed, but can manage.

Some of you guys apparently need some additional driving lessons. My Tundra Double Cab w/ eight foot bed is twenty-one feet long. It goes anywhere an ordinary car can. Then again, I know how to drive.

Crowded, multi-level parking garages in a big city, no problem:






Double-parked with the rest of the "regular cars" picking up college students in downtown Washington DC, no problem.



If you think a few extra feet, one way or another, is going to make a difference in how well you maneuver a vehicle, well...see my first statement on this post.

I'll admit I'm a terrible automobile driver. I scare myself these days. Don't get much practice.

As I said before, My 2010 Tundra is a work truck(single seat with 8' bed. The WT description. It has no power windows and has manual door locks. No power seats. It has no carpet and the seats are vinyl. You can open the doors and hose it out! lol.
Sometimes it needs it too.
The truck is built on the same frame as a twin cab with six foot bed. That means the doors are huge. The reason I bought the truck is because there is a huge space behind the seat. I can probably lay down back there. I can lock things in there out of sight.
I doubt I could have found a better truck for me. I see Bass Pro Shops near me has the exact same truck and use it for hauling boats and trailers in and out.

All the truck manufacturers still make 8 ft beds, dealers just don’t stock them much anymore due to demand. There are a lot of them available up here due to all the industrial, oil fields and construction. You might try looking for commercial/industrial surplus sales for good deals. They are most commonly stripped-down “fleet models”, but you can get them with full trim if you buy new or look in the right places.
Between contracting, camping, hunting and trapping I’d feel useless without an 8 ft bed, and often it’s still not enough. I used to have an overhead lumber rack on my truck, then I scored a commercial topper with the side doors. Now I can keep tools locked up, dry and hidden better than in the cab. Then I had a stroke of genius and put my lumber rack on my old pickup-bed trash trailer, and now I can haul just about whatever I want . I think this is the most versatile setup I’ve ever had.

My next truck will be a 4-door (crew cab) 8 ft bed. Biggest I can get. Like I tell people, if 2 or 4 feet makes the difference in your driving ability, then by all means stick with a vehicle size that matches the rest of you.

Here’s what a “loaded”camping trip looked like before I had the rack or box. The second pic is my current setup. Ugly but practical!