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It's not a heavy hauler. Amazon can't make it into one. They don't sell these:
Take a peek at the payload and Rear GAWR sticker on the door. If you don't like what it says, let the vendor deliver the material. If it's every day, buy a trailer.
One cubic yard of gravel can weigh between 2400-2900 lbs. your truck is not designed to carry this. Heavier springs, Monroe spring assist shocks might help but even a one ton is going to squat to the bump stops if you overload beyond capacity.
Personally, I have a heavy duty trailer for this type of job. If I didn’t and needed to I’d rent one. The truck is designed to pull something like 7000 pounds but nit in the bed itself.
Good luck.
Rather than altering the truck, you might also consider getting a smallish trailer, with at least a 3500# capacity axle. I have a 6.5X10 that I use to haul mulch and top soil, and just about anything else that I might need to carry. With the truck, you could even opt for a double axle with 7000+ GVWR so that you can haul 2 yards or so of top soil. The place I bought from wouldn't put more than 1 yard of top soil in mine - their rule of thumb - 1 yard per axle for non-commercial trailers. Mulch, no problem. It's pretty light.
A yard of pea gravel can weight from 2,400 to 2,900 pounds, so you had 1,200 - 1,450 lbs. What's your Payload?
A yard of top soil is 1,700 - 2,000 pounds. At 1,700 pounds you were likely over Payload.
I've seen numbers as high as 2700 pounds for a yard of top soil, if it's really moist. A couple of sites I looked at gave the range as 2000-2700. So even exceptionally dry, you'd be pushing the limit of the truck.
Not at Amazon but you can buy your full floater conversion here! Probably cheaper just to swat in a Sterling 10.5https://www.currieenterprises.com/CE-0013FR613535FBTW - full floaters are not inherently stronger than semi-float axles. Most agricultural tractors have semi-float axles and some of these are axles that can handle 10's of thousands of pounds. Yes, they are much beefier than an F-150 axle. A full floater just let's a manufacturer achieve a higher weight rating with lighter parts. Trucks don't put tremendous torque to the axle the way a tractor does, so they don't need a thick drive axle. Since they don't need a thick drive axle the full floater makes sense. On a tractor, the drive torque at the axle can be so high that the axle diameter needed also meets all weight carrying needs. So no benefit to a full floater.
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