Roy Levels up His Ram 1500 in Texas

If you’re anything like Roy P., you can’t live without your truck. There pretty much isn’t anything you do without it. It’s a part of your daily life, your job, your hobbies.

As an avid do-it-yourself-er, Roy’s 2015 Dodge Ram 1500 is an absolute necessity on a daily basis. Whether it’s hauling hunting gear to and from his deer lease or moving around landscaping supplies for his wife, he loads his truck up with anything and everything – dirt, rocks, lumber, building tools, deer corn and protein, all on top of a fully-loaded large bed tool box, two swing tool boxes, and a stocked Yeti cooler.

And he’s not just hauling – he also hooks up a 16 foot, tandem axle trailer and a 34 foot, 8,000 pound RV from time to time. It’s safe to say that Roy needs his truck to perform on a daily basis, under all sorts of circumstances.

Before he had his Dodge 1500, he had a larger, ¾-ton pickup, but the rough back roads of his former deer leases in Colorado beat the truck to death. When he decided to stop traveling to Colorado and stick to Texas when hunting, he decided to downsize to his ½-ton Dodge, trying to smooth out the ride, but he found that the new truck would sag when loaded up.

Roy and his hunting buddies all had brand-new trucks, one Dodge, one Chevy, and one Ford, and they all noticed the same issue.

“We could not believe how all our trucks sag so very badly when you put a little weight in the bed,” Roy said. The sag became a big inconvenience to them all, unable to be loaded at night for fear of blinding other drivers with the upward headlight aim.

I couldn’t take it anymore. I love my Dodge, but I hated the sag.

“I couldn’t take it anymore,” Roy said. “I love my Dodge, but I hated the sag. […] I really, really wanted to [out-haul] my hunting buddies with their Chevy and Ford.”