We’ve all heard the story on St. Patrick’s Day. The proverbial “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow. Say we could get there – to the end of the rainbow – and say we could convince the Leprechaun to hand the pot over. What would we use to haul it out of there" The safe bet would be a capable 3/4-ton truck but which model would provide the most capacity" Assuming the Leprechaun had a vast amount of gold to give, which HD truck would we want at the end of rainbow alley"
Magic Formula
The team at Throttle Down Kustoms created a basic math formula to answer this very question. Their gold payload graphic explains how many pots of gold would fit in the new Ford F-250, Chevy and GMC 2500 HD base models, Nissan Titan XD, and Ram 2500. “Cargo space and payload are two of the most important things truck owners want, so we thought this would be fun way measure just how much these 2018 trucks can handle,” explained Jeremy Pulse, owner of Throttle Down Kustoms.
Since Pulse and his crew are not a bunch of rich leprechauns (we don’t think anyway) they could not load actual pots of gold into the truck. Instead, they used the following formula:

Take a 6-inch x 6-inch cast iron kettle that weighs 2.5 lbs.
Add 1,000 1-ounce gold coins to the pot for a total weight of 65 lbs. per pot.
Get the cubic feet of each truck bed and stack up as many pots of gold as possible.
Multiply the stacked pots of gold by 65 lbs. for total ...