| > The rest I have never seen carrying anything other than groceries or the occasional new TV in the bed. They are entirely unnecessary. I have an older pickup that my in-laws sold us years ago. It's not in the best shape, and most of the time we use it for typical second-car usage: picking up kids, getting groceries, etc. However, it's been useful _so many times_ in the past five years that the convenience of having it outweighs having some other smaller car and then renting a pickup when necessary. - holiday travel, packages and luggage fill the back. (I'd prefer a minivan, but we don't have one.)
- Some local farmer donates a bunch of stumps for the school garden, we can use the pickup
- trash / e-waste delivery to the dump
- get / deliver furniture
- bring school projects to/from school
- buy a bunk bed at IKEA, it's in half a dozen six foot boxes of wood Most of these are occasions where there's significant disruption if we were to go try to rent a vehicle from Uhaul or Home Depot, which makes it less likely that we actually do these things, or suffer through trying to shoehorn things into a tiny car. Being able to throw things in the back of the truck makes life occasionally a lot more convenient. With the pickup being mostly useless, but occasionally Extremely Useful, it is not surprising to me that many keep them, and even consider buying higher trim levels to have a nicer+bigger cab, especially as their kids get older and larger. :) |