Dodge continued the "pilot house" tradition of high-visibility cabs with a wrap-around windshield introduced in 1955.

The company also adopted the standard pickup truck numbering scheme, also used by Ford and GM at that time.

The traditional separate-fender body "Utiline" version remained available, with a GVWR of up to 9,000 lb (4,100 kg) on 1-ton models.

[3][4][5] Starting in the 1957 model year, factory four-wheel-drive versions of the Dodge C series trucks were produced and sold as the W-100, W-200, W-300, and W-500, alongside the older WDX/WM-300 "Military Style" Power Wagon.

Because Chrysler needed plant capacity for its newer light-duty truck models, manufacture of these later C series cabs — for both Dodge and FWD — was outsourced to Checker in Kalamazoo, MI, beginning in 1962.