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> How often do you tow your utility trailer? If you do it every day because you need it for work, then having a big truck probably makes sense.

Nope.

We're in Australia, we have a 35 year old home over built double axle heavy steel frame trailer built to handle off road conditions in the north west; it's got heavy duty leaf springs, slaved brakes, can take some serious load tonnage and gets used weekly (still, and has dome for 35+ years).

It gets pulled by a six cylinder sedan car with a Hayman-Reese tow point and tracking anti sway bars.

It's done well in excess of 3 million km now (been stripped down to frame and rebuilt twice now (new wiring, new brakes, refurb'd springs, etc)).

Don't need a big "truck" (oversized Toorak Tractor).

Well, save for hauling wheat and cattle etc. but we have prime movers + semi trailers for that .. and for fire fighting we have an ex military heavy chassis truck modified to carry 5 tonne of water off road .. but that's a bigger beast than US SUV "trucks".

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That is awesome.