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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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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      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.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        “No, not the nice pick 'em up truck! That’s the one I use to go line dancing and pick up cousin dates, dammit!”