The emotional support truck of choice around here is the F350 Super Duty, a truck so massive that it needs four rear wheels to carry its own ass. Hogs can’t even park it without taking up half a bike lane and it averages 10-15mpg: 
The emotional support truck of choice around here is the F350 Super Duty, a truck so massive that it needs four rear wheels to carry its own ass. Hogs can’t even park it without taking up half a bike lane and it averages 10-15mpg:
I don’t understand why they want them in the first place. Have trouble enough finding parking in my work van which is only about 20cm wider than a regular car.
See contractors using them every now and then and they just seem supremely unwieldy.
As far as contractors go they can have a purpose. We have one at the shop with a lift gate for heavy equipment hauling and pulling the trailers. It’s great for hauling things like big 5 door coolers around because they fit in the bed without issue and the lift gate means theres no loading dock required to load or unload them. Plus we are often hauling things like entire grocery store refrigeration racks or 100 ton industrial chillers on the flatbed, so the absurd towing capacity is useful there. It’s also what gets used for hauling our large worksite trailer full of equipment to sites for large jobs. Where it is actually used that truck is often indispensable, but most of the time it just sits at the shop because it’s absolutely miserable to drive and wildly excessive for most jobs.
Outside of contractor work and farm work IDK why anyone would even want one of those trucks. They can be handy to have available to use but as a daily driver it would be a hinderance far far more frequenly than it would be helpful.
Just get a van
We drive vans. The pickup is for when a van won’t cut it.
I’ve never seen one of them actually be used to haul stuff (tends to be the supervisors driving them), they usually have a lorry with a tail lift or a crane when you need to move big stuff.
Ours does actually get used to haul stuff. The lift gate I was refering to is a tail lift. You just take one of those big ass pickups, swap the bed out for a flatbed with removable side walls, add a lift gate, and then you have an actual work truck.
If the boss wants to cruise down to a work site they don’t get to take the truck. We have a company branded PT cruiser parked right next to the truck for that purpose.
Some of those suburban curbs are really high, a regular car would shatter like glass if it touched one.