I’ve had many Ford pickups during the past 30 years:
First a F150 (after my first p/u, a S10 faltered with a 1000 pound sand payload).
A couple of F250’s.
Now, I am on my third F350.
In 2004, I carried at least 16 pallets (one at a time) of Pennsylvania Bluestone from Utica, NY to Old Forge NY. Each pallet weighed about 3500lbs. Utica to Old Forge is 51 mile with a lot of uphill.
My F350 helped me get the pallet of stone as near to the place as possible to help build along with 38 other pallets hauled up by 14 wheelers, a 65 ft long and 7 ft high stone retaining wall.
That was a Red standard shift F350XL I bought in 1993.
My previous Ford pickup truck had also visited many stone quarries, carried an inordinate amount of quarry stone whether it had been hand loaded or dumped in the backend by large pay loader.
This very special Ford F250 had also carried on a uncharted 4 wheel drive journey on the border of the Berkshire range that separates the edge of the Hudson Valley near Albany NY, with the Northwest corner of Massachusetts and Southwest corner of Vermont. On this one memorable evening my F250 crossed this state border on a logging road no pickup had traversed in many a year.
Currently, I enjoy a 2008 F350 Super Duty with extended cab. The truck is more than a vehicle for transportation. It functions as a work platform, an office, sometimes recreation center, and other times afforded me a place to rest my head when my wife and I saw things differently. (Of course, she was right in the end.)

Thank you for allowing me to express my gratitude and love for the excellent engineering and design of the world’s best pickups.