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A picture of a hand holding remote car keys pointed at a white pickup truck. Below that is the text:
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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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.
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 👌🏼