And that's just the opposite of a buddy of mine's luck with trucks. He was a Chevy guy all his life and always had good luck with them until about 7-8 yrs ago he bought 3 in a row that gave him nothing but problems. Then he traded for a 90 Dodge Ram with 175,000 miles on it and ran the crap out of it until it had 290,000 miles on it and it was still running great and giving no problems but the body was rusting pretty bad. He then bought a 95 Ram with 120,000 miles on it and has had it for about 3-4 yrs. now and put on about 75,000 miles (right at 200,000 now) and has had no problems at all. He uses them for hauling scrap to the scrap yards so they take a beating. Not disputing your word at all, just saying his experience with Dodge's has been great and he claims to be a Dodge truck guy and even got his Dad into driving them.