You'd have enjoyed my old ride. 1974 A-car round fender, Super 250 Cummins with a thirteen, SQHD Rockwells 4.33 ratio on 10,00x22 rubber. Had the LOVELY White Velvet Ride suspension that had been adapted to it, great for the kidneys, back, churning lunch. 170+/-" wb with Armstrong PS an old Bostrum spring ride seat while AC was 4/50, ALL the windows open and 50mph. Tanker had a pto pump mounted under(old US AF 8200 gal STEEL tanker) inside tool boxes, could almost scale 5000 gallon Diesel in it, just Not Quite. Single drop, NO baffles and SUCKED to drive with half a load. Side roll, end SLAP at stops/takeoffs. Still not sure why the end caps stayed on it!!
Was not fast, was steady! In winter would stuff rags/old towels along door openings to keep what little heat it made INSIDE the cab! I believe if memory serves it weighed EMPTY at just around 46000.
Only good point, the scale boys KNEW the truck, KNEW the load would take DAYS to settle if jostled and when hit the slab would get a auto green light!! Scale crossed many times with 85k gross!