I always laugh when I see a company buy a 2500 then put a big bed and lots of tools on it. Just sitting there it is close toi max weight and they have not even loaded raw material yet.
They drive them around like that and wonder why they do not last long. 
Load any truck to it's max and leave it that way.... they won't last long either.
Our flatbed has the same v6 diesel in it that is normally installed in firetrucks along with the PTO. We do not haul cars though. We haul plate. That can add up to a lot more weight quickly. lol
Cap I was curious about that 3500...... could they have put that side view mirror any further back?? 
i see that all the time. most people....including a customer who went out and started his own electrical contracting business......he kept bringing me e150's to check out. i kept telling him nothing smaller than a 350. he said he wasn't gonna load it much. i told him i've been through this a hundred times. sure enough, he bought the 150, and within the month, had it severely overloaded.
got another customer.....HVAC guy. he has fords and chevys. all 350's/450's and 3500's. he never has a single problem.....'cept the time the one chevy developed a pull. that was a simple alignment problem though....nothing major at all.
yea......all the 80's fords have those mirrors pretty far back. to be honest, they're too small too. i'm gonna update them to the bigger ones from a newer ford....and move them a bit forward too.
