My daily driver, that I sort of bought on an impulse. A 1984 Toyota I paid $3500 for.

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
Sometimes I consider how convenient it would be to have a pickup truck.

Then I recall how inconvenient it would be to be asked all the time to help with the truck or to loan out said truck.

I've owned a truck for over 20+ years and very rarely has someone asked to borrow it for moving anything. I have been asked to help someone move on a few occasions but nothing that came close to making owning a truck inconvenient. With that said I like owning a truck but wouldn't want a truck to be my one and only vehicle.

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Originally posted by crue-dell:
My daily driver, that I sort of bought on an impulse. A 1984 Toyota I paid $3500 for.

Looks sharp! Are you sure you don't have a time machine? All it needs is the window sticker and some paper floor mats.

I bought two Dodge trucks. One (2004) was $1,200 and the newer one (2005) was $12,800.

Yours looks like it would be fun to drive. I'm sure you get better mileage than I do.

Your travel companion looks like they would love a slow ride with the window down.

Often think about selling the truck to free up garage space. I think a trailer would handle whatever I need. Unfortunately, there are no large sedans or any SUV that interests me. A full size truck for impact protection maybe. But I have a midsize and don't really care to drive it

It is pretty fun to drive and gets about 20mpg. The first thing I did after I got it, was a Weber carburetor conversion. It needed a little tlc, tune up wise but it runs great. A newer truck would be nice but I have a hard time letting go of that much money.

I've had a pick up or flat bed most of my entire driving habit...going on 60+ years now. There's been a few breaks along the way, where only a "car" was at hand.

Frankly, I don't see what the attraction is. My Sweet Bride has a car but often has some chore or errand that needs actual hauling.

Traded in a good Jeep JK after 5 years. The Bantam army trailer helped a lot. Got a new JK and a bigger dump trailer, thinking that would solve the 'need a pick up' Jones. It didn't.

Simply put, even if I didn't 'need' a pick up, I'd have at least one anyway. There ain't nothing I need a car for.

I have my stripper work truck, which is handy for getting gardening materials, etc.

If I didn’t need one for gardening, I can’t see what the benefit would be, over an SUV.

I mostly drive sedans in cities, but a small, high powered SUV would be pretty useful.

(A lot of stuff has to be delivered/picked up, because it cannot fit in my car)

In 2017 I traded my 2013 Ford Focus ST for a 2017 Ford F-250. I just wanted a truck. The only truck I had owned before was a 1999 Dakota. I thought the F-150 was small. I wanted a truck truck.

It’s my daily driver, I don’t haul or tow. I towed a u-haul twice with it. But, once a year I can take a whole pallet of mulch at once with it. It’s also a gasser so payload is 3,800 lbs.

I have 134,000 miles on it now since I drive between Fort Benning and Fort Knox about every other week.

I really like the truck.

I've had a truck for 20 some years. I guess if pressed, I'd say yeah, I can get by without a truck. I just like "ridding high" and feeling I can get down that dirt road, haul the freezer from Lowes, or ten bags of mulch and if some soccer mom in an Accord needs jump (battery LOL) no worries. Plenty of amps. Trucks around these parts hold their value quite well. My 3 year old Tacoma is listed at more than I paid for it.

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Originally posted by crue-dell:

Looks like the coolest pup on the block.

Thanks for sharing.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:

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Originally posted by crue-dell:

Looks like the coolest pup on the block.

Thanks for sharing.

You taught your dog to drive stick? That's impressive.

This summer I sold my 2018 F-150 Platinum. I bought it for $58,000 and sold it for $56,000 with 6,000 miles on it. Obviously, from the miles, I didn’t need it. I’ve owned trucks for 45 years.

Gosh, I'm an old guy and I've had a truck since I was in high School. I can't think of a single year since then that I have not had a truck in the garage. And yeah, I've always needed a truck.

I drove a Blazer for awhile in college and I just traded my truck in for a Yukon but other than that, I've always driven a pickup truck.

And a lot of people call those SUVs a "truck" although I don't consider them trucks.

Sure. Three of them over a period of 35 years. I don't need a truck. The only thing I'm hauling is my sack.

I've had some sort of truck in my stable since 1983. Just too handy not to have to take hunting, camping and fishing.

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So I got to wondering. Anybody bought a truck just because?

In Texas it's a law.

Maybe once every 2 years, I'd think it'd be handy to have a pick up truck.

There was a group of us helping a family move. One guy brought his pick up. I jumped up on the bed, took a look, and said, "This is the first time you're going to load something in this truck, huh?"

He nodded yes.

Just bought my first truck. A 2016 Tacoma access cab 4wd. I love it!! I don’t know how I lived all these years without it and I don’t plan on ever living without one again!!

Got by with SUV’s from ‘80 till ‘16 body on frame type. I did have a work truck for several years. I limited my activity to what by vehicle could do and had a utility trailer for those times I really needed capacity.

Now that I’ve traded into a truck I find I have use for it. I’ve taken on a bit of RVing, primary driver for hunting camp out west. I could function without a truck but it would mean owning a Suburban. I find I don’t miss the utility trailer for odd jobs. Still have and use it but much less.