MTHunter7

I am thinking by the time I have kids and they get big enough to need more room, I can get an SUV (hopefully they bring back the excursion), so a super cab would work. By that time, they'll be close to driving as well, so it'll be less shuffling them around. Then I'll keep the 150 for hauling and hunting. Maybe do a SAS down the road and turn it into a trail rig as well.

GMW468

I just drove from Pennsylvania to the Smokey Mts of N. Carolina with my wife and 2 kids (12 and 9) in my 02 SCREW and I can't imagine stuffing my 2 kids into a supercab for that long of a ride. I love the interior room of the SCREW. Especially as my kids get older and personal space becomes an issue..... Think "he's touching me!!!"

My 5.5 bed had more than enough room for a weeks worth of luggage, food, and supplies.

MTHunter7

OK, then a question about storage space for you Screw guys. Do you have a tool box or any other storage solutions? Such as keeping rifle, shotgun, fishing gear, and recovery gear. I wouldn't want a 20" tool box taking up 1/3rd of my bed space with a short bed. Screw 6.5' box doesn't work well around here. More than half of this town drives either a prius or a Subaru and park like the self important geniuses they think they are, so even getting the old regular cab long box f250 I used to have in and out of parking spaces was a pain.

Manuellabour247

There are storage solutions for under the seat in a SuperCrew. That being said, my old SCab was enough room for our family until we got a dog. Then it was just too uncomfortable. We were taking 3+ hour road trips to Oklahoma. It was perfectly fine with 2 kids (10 & 8) and our 2 year old in a car seat. And contrary to what other people have said, I miss the 6.5' box from the supercab. I've driven long wheel bases most my life so I'm used to getting screwed when trying to find a parking spot. Haha. I think you will be surprised by the room in the SCabs. They have come a long way.

Adam013085

I rode in my buddies 97 scab and they seemed to have quite a bit less room than my 04 scab. I think they added more room in the interior or thats at least how it seemed to be

Wiggum

I have a toolbox in my truck bed. It doesn't even go down 2/3 of the depth of the bed, is still plenty deep enough, and is "low profile" so it doesn't stick up more and a few inches above the bed rails. I also do NOT store guns or other "precious" items in there for any extended periods of time. What I keep in there normally is just a recovery/tow strap, jumper cables, a few very basic tools, some rope, my construction PPE (hard hat, boots, vest, etc), and some towels. The "precious" or "expensive" cargo only goes in there when I need to take it from point A to point B ... and if it has to live in the truck any extended period of time, I stow it under the back seat and secure it there where it's out of the way, and hidden from sight.

As for the bed/tool box, SOMETIMES it's in the way if I wanna stuff things into the bed that are too thick to fit under it, and too long to fit in the bed w/out going under it ... but then, I either just lay the tailgate down and strap the materials down, or I leave the gate up and just have them in the bed, but resting on the tailgate rail (and strap them down that way too).

Like someone else said ... w/out a toolbox, there's not a whole helluva lot of difference between the 5.5' and 6.5' bed ... most things I've found that are too big to fit in the 5.5' bed don't really fit in the 6.5', and you have to either prop them up on the bed rail, or lay the gate down. To me, stepping up from the 5.5' bed means going to the 8' bed - but that would mean no Screw config, and it would mean you're doing a LOT of hauling of LONG materials - which I don't.

Here's a pic of my box in my truck bed, loaded down with sod, mulch, soil, etc.

RLXXI

The one other factor at play here is cost, crew cab's cost more than super cabs.

MTHunter7

In my old Durango, I had a box for keeping my recovery gear (winch accesories, tow straps, jumper cables, basic tools, my "stuck on the side of the road kit", fishing gear and breakdown fishing rods, and my guns were overhead in a rack (have them for shooting coyotes, gophers and rockchucks when driving down back roads out of town). I figure that's a lot to store under a back seat, so a tool box might be necessary.

Manuellabour247

They have the swing out case storage for the smaller stuff that mounts in the end of the bed. I believe they are weather resistant and can be removed if you are not using them. There was a vendor on here, but haven't seen anything on them in a while.

nrivera04

I've had both and prefer the screw over the scab. Don't get me wrong, my scab holds a special place near n dear to me, but I prefer the interior room over the exterior. If you need that much room to compensate for only a foot of difference in the bed, just get a 6x10 trailer. They're cheap and follow behind our trucks well.