In Michigan everything bounces, its called pot holes! The winter along with salt and plowing tears our roads up!

 

some reports that this rear spring arch support helps:

http://www.activesuspension.com/

The Reflex shocks from Monroe
and the better but more expensive IAS Shocks from Edelbrock
probably improve the situation

A complete air suspension with adjustment
would greatly reduce the problem of it when lightly loaded:

http://www.keldermanairride.com/lift-kits/

http://www.stengelbros.com/

in the official Dodge press releases for the model year 2009 Ram
they make a lot of statements
that the new rear coil spring suspension
with re-located shock absorbers will improve the problem
and make the Ram the best 'concrete freeway hop' fighter

https://dodgeforum.com/m_1126197/tm.htm

 

A tighter bra?

 

Im surprised nobody has said what im about to...

I live in Vegas.. we have the 215 beltway here.. they intentionally put those "ruts" in the road to discourage speeding.. the faster you go the more uncomfortable you are. It can be offset somewhat by added weight in the back but its really not worth it. If you notice you go the speed limit, its usually the smoothest it can get..i think it is stupid,as everyone should be responsible for their speed, but write your congressman. hope this helps

 

Yeah... it's a combo of the truck and the road. I've driven around LA a bit back when I live in CA. The 4x4 is stiffer. One of the reasons I went with 2wd. That and it's lighter, gets better mileage and it's cheaper. The H3 is for the offroading in our family.

So, softer shocks and some weight will most definitely help, just live you've said. My truck rides better with some light weight or when towing a light trailer. It's really not at it's "ideal" when you've just got one person in it. Trucks are meant to do "work."

 

Bill,
Just last night I asked a friend of mine about this and he had an interesting story. I have a '95 Chevy 1500 Crew-Cab and an '01 Santa Fe. The bouncing happens in both of the cars! A friend told me when Caltrans began to expand and repair concrete lanes a few years back, they expanded and repaired the lanes in 12 foot sections. He informed me that BMW (or some other major auto maker) recenly invested millions of dollars to research why the front suspensions on their newer models "bounced" on freeways and eventually upgraded the suspension packages on all new models. Further results showed that the expansions and repairs occured in 12 foot increments. As you probably know, tires are not evenly ballanced out of the factory. You probably also know that this is why tires are ballanced when placed on rims (there are some people that really don't know this). Now, as vehicles travel over these stretches of highway with properly ballanced tires they begin to bounce and do not "even out" until they cross a staggered stretch of concrete (10 feet/12 feet/8 feet/12 feet and so on) or asphault lanes. Therefore, now when Caltrans expands or widens a freeway they now stagger the length of the lanes to allow for the tires on vehicles to catch a "rythym". It kind of makes sense to me considering why vehicles have suspensions to begin with. About a year ago, all lanes in the North and South-bound directions of the I15 freeway from Temecula through Murrieta were "shaved" (I was told the correct terminology for this but I forgot). I tell you, I haven't had a problem with that stretch of highway ever since and have never has "bouncing" issues on asphault lanes. I am sure there is something I could do to stop the bouncing in my truck. However, I don't have much money in this economy to upgrade my truck. Caltrans needs to "shave" more stretches of freeways so many of us can have a much smoother ride into work each day. Peace!

 

^^^^ yes that 'shaving' does wonders. caltrans did a stretch of it on the 405 and it turned out nice. the 22 had it done before the expansion. if you wanna eliminate the bounce on the 405, then you gotta go faster. lol. over 80 and its fine. try traveling it when its bogged down every night. a 15 mph constant speed on it feels like riding a mechanical bull back and forth. only fix for that, get a 4th gen

 

I don't know if it's been suggested yet, but maybe try dropping your tire pressure a little bit and see if that helps at all?

 

i hate roads like that, my buddy almost rolled his ram at 80 mph when he hit a ledge on a bridge, thank god he works in a pit crew and has experience with high speed maneuvers or i might not be here today.

 

yay for year old threads...