> Better find someone with an old truck since those won't fit in the bed of a new one.

You can easily buy new long bed trucks today.

I guess you're referring to how so many people are buying short bed trucks. Which I agree doesn't make sense. If you're going to get a truck, might as well maximize it's usefulness as a truck which is the whole point.

For the Ford F150 the long bed is only available in the lowest trim XL and XLT models (from the manufacturer). Going through the inventory posted on my local Ford dealer website, they're all short beds and supercrew or crewcab. The dealer site doesn't even list the bedsize as a feature in the specs.

I'd like to see you walk in there and try to buy a regular cab long bed F150.

> For the Ford F150 the long bed is only available in the lowest trim XL and XLT models

In other words, they do exist.

I was able to configure a long (8ft) bed pickup at the Ford, Chevy and Ram websites, so all of them appear to sell them. Not every model/package combination exists, but it did appear easy to build a 8ft bed model if that's what I wanted.

The ford website literally pops up a warning "Due to a combination of high demand and global supply-chain constraints, not all models and trims or features are available to order. Contact your dealer for available inventory stock or future availability" and asks you to acknowledge that before you start doing a build.

The fact that the website lets you configure it doesn't indicate that you can actually get it delivered--which is why I used dealer stock instead.

> The ford website literally pops up a warning ...

I saw that; it doesn't specifically say that long beds are not available though and I was able to configure many long bed configurations so I'd guess they are available. There were some configurations the tool says not available, but didn't see that for long beds. Inventory is fickle, but you could always order one.

That all said, even if it's true that Ford has stopped building long beds (I have not ordered from Ford, I have a long bed Ram), there are other brands which also show long bed options available.

> it doesn't specifically say that long beds are not available though and I was able to configure many long bed configurations so I'd guess they are available.

That warning is explicitly stating that you may be able to configure something that is not available.