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In the US, 75% of truck owners tow only once a year or less. Nearly 70% of them go off-road once a year or less. Additionally, 35% of truck owners haul something in their truck beds once a year or less
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But you get to own the libs every day so it evens out.
Saw a truck the other day with Harris and Coexist stickers and was so confused.
Don’t blame emo for what can be explained by YAGNI.
I got a 2004 Silverado 1500 and I couldn’t be happier with it. It’s not a giant penile enhancement. Its just a normal sized truck. I use it as a daily driver and grocery getter. But when I need a truck to haul shit I got it.
saw a rivian on my way home from work this morning. poor guy tried to keep up but my old 4banger was just too light on her feet
I imagine it’s pretty much the same in UK - a lot of the people using them for work might be better off with a small van.
But then, they don’t look ‘manly’ do they?
What does a van offer that a small truck wouldn’t? Other than opportunity for passengers. Since its a work vehicle passengers isn’t generally a concern since basically anything you can buy can handle atleast 2 people. Covered space? Get a cap. Need more Clearance for a fridge you intend on plugging in right away? take the cap off. Over sized item in more ways than one like a couch or bed? you can drop and remove the tailgate. I have yet to see a small van that can be all that customizable?
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You can down vote but you should add to the discussion. Can we get the numbers on people that have vans and aren’t using them to capacity or carrying anything. How about the amount that drive passenger cars that are driving 2+ occupant but serves no more utility than a bicycle that’s faster.
To add to the numbers my house hold has a 4 door sedan and a pickup. But we are dual income with no kids. What should I drive instead? so I live 30 miles from work because who is so lucky to work next door and wife is 20 miles fron work. I also do things like move fire wood and mow lawns and… Really do you want a list of all the things I would have to rent a truck for? I have a cap for my bed and have pulled it to move larger stuff. Just because you dont have to do a thing or have a thing or what ever… Doesn’t mean there is t a use case which doesn’t involve using someone else’s and just using your own.
A guy at work has a massive truck, and once had a bunch of bags of wood pellets delivered to the office.
As he wrangled a bunch of low level employees to help him load it all up, he exclaimed “I can fit two tons in the back of this!”
“I can have things delivered to my house” I replied.
It’s $100 minimum to get anything delivered from the hardware store a mile from my house. It’s $20 rent a pickup from U-haul for their 4 hour minimum. I do that maybe 4X per year. I drive a little electric car now, but when I had a Prius V (station wagon one) with the seats folded down I could fit as much in there as a light duty pickup.
That sounds dumb. Lets instead expend $60k+maintenance and insurance in order to not have to pay $100 once every othe year or so.
I think there’s a significant part of American culture and mythology constructed around self-reliance. It is at the heart of the rage over socialism (that and anti-communist sentiment left-over from the Cold War), the hardcore prepper mindset, and pickup trucks.
When that is your identity logic doesn’t play into it, unfortunately.
Also, the prevalence of $100k+ vehicles is getting goddamn ridiculous.
the math makes more sense when the truck costs <$20,000 and only has colision insurance.
That’s exactly what I do with my Forester. I live in a regional area of Australia so for me it’s a daily driver and great for long trips, and if I need to pick shit up, fold the seats down and I effectively have my ute.
At least in Australia there’s the option to buy a small ute
Brumby 👌🏼
It compensates for penis size 100% of the time though.
Emotional Support Truck
Beautiful! Ford F550
Would love to haul my sleds in that
Still only carries 1 person.
Shaq
Gender affirming truck. But seriously, I will never ask someone to haul stuff for me. It’s like you didn’t buy a truck to haul my shit around. There are also seasons of life where a truck would be super useful. What I’m saying is I need a fucking truck you bitches.
I just rent a pickup truck from U-Haul for $21 per day. I’m never gonna need it more than 1 day.
Less than the price for insuring a big ass truck for a year.
And it is because of these people that I have to custom order a poverty spec work truck, because manufacturers will only send dealers 100k “family trucks” with fancy nonsense
man I miss the s-10 form factor. now everything is absurdly huge.
I have a 3rd gen Tacoma and it is HUGE for a “small” truck. I miss actual small trucks (I also miss hoods that were lower and slanted forward in a way that you could actually kind of see over).
Used to drive a five speed Ranger for work. I loved it.
The old Rangers were the epitome of trucks that get shit done.
Horse shit, you want a base Colorado? I’ll get you one 8% off MSRP. I’ll only charge $1000.
Taking your golf bag to the course counts as hauling now?
Smart car will do the same and it doubles as a golf cart, why don’t we have more smart cars? Oh wait, lots of micro dicks…
My Mazda 3 is better built with lower maintenance and repair cost (and frequency) with similar mpg on cheaper fuel (if we’re talking similar year models and not electric). The smart cars aren’t smart for anyone that’s considering anything other than size.
Sorry ya missed the joke there…
I was about to say: if a trunk would fulfill the same purpose, the bed is not useful: then it’s just a less protected trunk.
So I assume correcting for that, this stat would also be >70%
Everytime someone tells me they need a pick up truck for work purposes, I always think no, 95% of the time you are far better of getting a van. Who wants their tools and materials getting rained on the back of a bed? Vans are also usually lower and easier to load. The fact you can’t see into the back of the van can also prevent theives.
In the rurals, we had need of a truck. Of course, it was an old beat up GM, and as a boy I got in trouble when I tossed a log of firewood into the bed of a shiny new ES truck (bigger than the GM) and missed, damaging its otherwise pristine body finish, which I’d later learn was costly to repair.
It informed how I would eventually compute I, a suburban kid, was too unfamiliar with strange rural conventions for heavy labor.
“No, not the nice pick 'em up truck! That’s the one I use to go line dancing and pick up cousin dates, dammit!”
I once sat behind a dude in line filling four propane tanks that he put in the back seat of his pickup truck.
Meanwhile I learned I could fit a 100lb propane tank in my sedan.
This is quite dangerous, though I admire the ingenuity.
Not dangerous. See Mythbusters on the topic of exploding LP tanks.
Any compressed gas can be dangerous.
I am a fleet manager for a company that solely delivers them. However we know people will do this. It’s your gas, but there is a reason there are many regulations for when gasses are transported. Things can get ugly really fast if anything is not right.
Plastic bags can be dangerous. Better not put them in your back seat.
/s
There was this incident in my town a long time ago. I believe the cause was leaking gas bottles and having them unsecured caused sparks, which then resulted in the explosion.
So, secure those gas bottles well!!
Definitely dangerous. May not explode, sure,
but could displace enough oxygen to cause hypoxia.
Could vent fast enough to cause dangerous overpressure.
Could slide out of the seatbelts not meant to hold that shape and become a wrecking ball in an accident.
Yes it’s dangerous, no it won’t kill you most times you do it.
If the steel bottle somehow instantaneously dissolved, then sure.
I will continue to fly in airplanes assuming that the laws of physics will continue to apply.
just don’t get in an accident. ez.
That’s what the seatbelts are for
This is quite dangerous
Not dangerous. Strapped in place. That ain’t goin’ nowhere.
Lucky me that propane tanks didn’t explode like in video games lol. (Also yes I anchored the tank properly after this photo)
I’m sure that guys a chump. But it might actually be better than having them roll around in the bed.
If you have a pickup you should have either bungee-straps, wratchet-straps or ideally, both.
Milk crates. I was trying to come up with some way using wood blocks to hold propane tanks in the truck bed, then I discovered the milk crates the previous owner of our house left. They work GREAT for 20 lb and 30 lb propane tanks. Easy to strap in, as well.
I don’t know why someone would want to carry a propane tank in the cab of their vehicle, unless they absolutely had to. I know I did it many time before getting a pickup, putting the tank in my car, and making the trip as short as possible.
For sure. You don’t load your truck without making sure things are down tight.
And you gotta gently smack the item and say “That’s not goin anywhere”
Nah. Smack that bitch hard. You gotta make sure it knows it’s not going anywhere.
Meanwhile europe where you see people with renault twingos do more with their cars.
Heck people carry more on their bicycles that many ever carry on their trucks.
Actually true lol. I see people here with trailer thingies for their bicycles and they carry stuff with it. It probably has the same bed size as the newest “ford f-550 ultra extreme plus carbon dioxide poisoning engine from cruise ship edition”
Imagine riding your bike every day with the trailer attached just for the odd day every other month when you need to carry something. That’s truck brain logic.
okay but I actually do this with my panniers and those suckers add a lot of drag
I regurarly carry some tools and some small boxes strapped to the panier rack of my ebike. Lol.
I get timber/PIR/plasterboard from the builders merchant, and also take that plus garden waste to the tip, 10+ times per year, in a 4 seat car that weighs under 1 tonne.
Anything truly massive, they just deliver it to me.
The day I discovered that a 2.4m 6*2 would fit inside was a very good day.
As was the one I bought roof bars.
We can fix the truck problem by making health insurance cover penis enlargements. If they have more of a dick maybe they will be less of a dick.
I haul, tow, go off road more frequently in my Yaris.
Yeah, but that’s a quality car, that doesn’t count.
Just an example of when folks think they need a truck, most often what they really need/want is a fucking trailer hitch.
Excluding childish hotwheel fantasies, of course.
Or a station wagon
Or if they’re a tradesman of some kind, a van
Would have loved one of those sprinter vans when I did field work, used our utility trailer a lot, but something with a small workbench, lighting and conveniently located inverters would have been amazing.
That does sound like an incredible alternative to drying herbarium vouchers in a hotel with a hair drier (my field work)
I own a station wagon, a suburban, and previously a truck. When I owned the truck it was full of shit or hauling stuff constantly. I sold it the moment I didn’t need it. The suburban replaced it because I refuse to put my dogs in the bed while towing the boat to go camping. The wagon is a people hauler because it’s payload is too low most of the time.
There are quite a few people in this world who actually use their trucks. I also completely hate seeing people who own trucks but don’t use them.
OK well we’re talking in generalities here. Most people who have a Truck (myself included) don’t need one. And I’d bet that a lot of those who do would be better served by a utility van or something similar.
Trucks aren’t even the only vehicle capable of hauling large loads (giggity).
Sure, some people legitimately need a truck. We’re not talking about them.
Absolutely zero people need the pedestrian slaughterer 2000, but these kinds of
truckskilling machines are more and more common on the road today.
The estate car is the ideal car for 80% of all drivers, a hatchback is ideal for 15% of all drivers.
I have a work truck that I beat the hell out of. Go off road and hit 4 wheel drive 3-4 times per week. I haul 1000-1,500 lbs of gear everywhere for around 4 months of the year. I tow daily for 2-3 months of the year and up 1-2 times per month the rest of the time. My cab is full of gear (it’s basically my mobile office).
Guess what I hop into and drive every chance I get? The small SUV I own. It is much easier to drive, park, go shopping in etc. It takes a lot more more effort to drive the larger vehicles.
If I could swing it I would turn my 1/2 ton work truck in for one of those new small trucks. Unfortunately the weight that I am moving is too much for them. So I am stuck with the large truck.
I used to have a Chevy Sonic and I hauled so much stuff in that car, full size fridges, front load washing machines, lumber, 14" canoe. Summer and winter offroading at a solar farm jobsite for the province of Ontario, prolly 2-4km deep
