Cybertruck takes a dump of cinder blocks in its bed and shows no damage (posted by official CT twitter)

[firsttruck]

HFS baby!! Not worried about sail panel. Is the bucket and Bobcat operator OK?

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[Crissa]

Also nobody dumps gravel or anything in your bed. Get a dump trailer for that. You going to wreck your bed, shovel it out, and then have to pressure wash it?

Mulching my Rivian. The loader guy had to triple check “you want this in the bed? Really? In a Rivian?” (It had a tarp liner; and we got another yard of mulch in the trailer.)

No one, huh?

-Crissa

 

[Hunter71294]

Sorry, I meant to say nobody should. An actual contractor that uses their truck daily would never do this. You don’t seen landscapers pulling up in their F350s dumping mulch in their beds for a reason.

Go rent a dump trailer and it will save you hours of work. It will haul more, dump the load so you don’t have to shovel, easier to clean, and if you scratch it or dent it won’t matter. Your free to do what you want with your property obviously that’s just my 2 cents.

 

[SolarWizard]

A horse stall mat is VERY heavy compared to the bed liner Tesla has used. And a horse stall mat doesn't protect the fragile painted sides of a traditional pickup bed.

As much as none of us would load concrete blocks like that, it was a good demonstration of the dent resistance of the included bed liner. My F-150 onlly has 50K miles on the odometer and the steel bed is all dents and scratches. If I didn't have a mostly water-proof tonneau cover on it, it would be full of rust.

It looks like Cybertruck has a light weight and tough bed liner included. That's normally the first thing the buyer of a traditional pickup has to buy. This adds real value to the Cybertruck that people tend to forget about.

No running boards needed to get in and out either. More time and money saved.

50-90 lbs depending on thickness

hopefully teslas bed liner holds up better than that on the tacoma. Cracked liners there are common

 

[SolarWizard]

There just trying to show no damage. Not super impressive to me, should've dumped it from higher. Also nobody dumps gravel or anything in your bed. Get a dump trailer for that. You going to wreck your bed, shovel it out, and then have to pressure wash it? Or just rent a dump trailer? When they didn't come through on the tow capacity that really bummed me. 14k+ would've been nice.

you really should stop by a supply yard sometime and ask some questions

 

[mbeltran]

This was obviously staged and put out in response to the Silverado hit piece on the F-150 several years ago. The CT bed is a high strength composite that will outlast any steel or aluminum truck, much less their beds. The Ford aluminum bed failed miserably, but the Chevy bed got beat up pretty bad. The CT bed took a beating but is no worse for the wear, except for cosmetics.
Unfortunately, the CT video used hollow cinder block, the Chevy used solid blocks. Why go to all that trouble and not make it a fair comparison, Tesla? Another 1/8 mile Porsche deception? We love the CT, but stop overselling it with half truths.

 

[Cyberdoggy]

I think the point here is it didn't damage anything. That would have put a big dent in my rhino liner bed of my f150 and i have the steel bed. Do people pick up gravel in pickups in your yards? I cant believe people do that. $30 a load for delivery here and they will dump it right where you need it. Costs me more money to drive the trailer out there to pick it up.

This was a waste of good block...For some people, a truck is a tool. Having things delivered is great in a perfect world. There are many times when the world is not perfect, and you have to improvise to keep your crew working. So yes, people who use their trucks for work "do that." I bet your F150 is real pretty.

 

[Crissa]

Sorry, I meant to say nobody should. An actual contractor that uses their truck daily would never do this. You don’t seen landscapers pulling up in their F350s dumping mulch in their beds for a reason.

Go rent a dump trailer and it will save you hours of work. It will haul more, dump the load so you don’t have to shovel, easier to clean, and if you scratch it or dent it won’t matter. Your free to do what you want with your property obviously that’s just my 2 cents.

I see lots of trucks, dumpers and pickups and flatbeds with skips; and very few trailers.

Trailers suck in the mountains.

-Crissa

$30 for a load? What the heck? Does the driver make minimum wage and the truck take no insurance and have no maintenance?

 

[Bsimmer3000]

This was a waste of good block...For some people, a truck is a tool. Having things delivered is great in a perfect world. There are many times when the world is not perfect, and you have to improvise to keep your crew working. So yes, people who use their trucks for work "do that." I bet your F150 is real pretty.

I would take the dump trailer before getting it put in my truck bed. Ain’t no one gonna be happy with shoveling that out the bed. My trucks 15 years old. It’s been used in my construction business that whole time. Yeah it’s pretty it’s platinum ?

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