measurements of tray tub Hilux , ranger , triton , rodeo

Yep, I guessed right! The Triton is 1085mm between wheel arches!! [:-)

Triton dual cab tub is 1505mm long, 1470mm wide x 460mm deep.

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com.au/vehicles/triton/specifications/double-cab-4x4-diesel

thanks Ron but the dimensions from the Toyota website dont include the space between the wheel arches

can you guess what i said to the toyota technical rep who told me " we dont have that information - who needs that ? "

if they dont care about supplying the info then i dont care if their wallpaper does peel off after the phone call ;)

Yeah, that's pretty poor, isn't it. For all they know, a sale could hinge on your questions.

I've picked up from several forums that the Hilux is 1100mm between wheel arches - and several Hilux owners complaining, that they can no longer fit a pallet in the tub!!

Who, in their right (or even left) mind would stick a pallet into a ute tub, anyway?
If you are gonna carry real loads, you need a drop-side tray such as made by Michell of Tamworth. Anything else is just a PRETEND utility vehicle!

tubbed utes are manufactured because some people want them

maybe tubbed suits 90 % of what they do but they want to carry pallets once in a blue moon ?

i suspect the shrinking tubs is due to the widening of tyres these days

Tub utes are regularly used by the likes of builders to carry a pallet.
The tubs have a major advantage in having a lower loading height, thus making for easier hand loading - and they're also more stable when loaded, with a lower C of G.

Having said that, I personally now prefer traytops, because you have a bigger area to drop stuff on - such as 1200mm sheets of gyprock or particle board - and right there is where the tubs become a right PIA.
You can't sit any sheet of 1200mm material flat on the deck in a tub body.

For many years I used tub or styleside utes because a lot of the stuff I carried was heavy parts, toolboxes, small drums, 20L water bottles, and other miscellaneous contractor junk, that all fitted well into a tub-style body.
Nothing worse than trying to heave or manhandle a heavy component or a drum from the ground onto a traytop. Luckily, we have lots more forklifts, nowadays! [;-)

Our metric pallets are 1165 x 1165, so that effectively means all of the aforementioned utes with tub bodies are non-goers for any standard metric pallet.

I think the VW Amarak is the only one a pallet will fit,
They advertise it that way.
PeterH