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TranscriptionA 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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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dustyData 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That sounds dumb. Lets instead expend $60k+maintenance and insurance in order to not have to pay $100 once every othe year or so.

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[–] JustARegularNerd 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] buzz86us 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And it is because of these people that I have to custom order a poverty spec work truck, because manufacturers will only send dealers 100k "family trucks" with fancy nonsense

[–] mojofrododojo 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

man I miss the s-10 form factor. now everything is absurdly huge.

[–] MutilationWave 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Used to drive a five speed Ranger for work. I loved it.

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[–] ch00f 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I once sat behind a dude in line filling four propane tanks that he put in the back seat of his pickup truck.

[–] Voyajer 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile I learned I could fit a 100lb propane tank in my sedan.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This is quite dangerous, though I admire the ingenuity.

[–] RestrictedAccount 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Not dangerous. See Mythbusters on the topic of exploding LP tanks.

[–] GladiusB 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Any compressed gas can be dangerous.

I am a fleet manager for a company that solely delivers them. However we know people will do this. It's your gas, but there is a reason there are many regulations for when gasses are transported. Things can get ugly really fast if anything is not right.

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[–] jaybone 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m sure that guys a chump. But it might actually be better than having them roll around in the bed.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If you have a pickup you should have either bungee-straps, wratchet-straps or ideally, both.

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[–] Blaster_M 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Bytemeister 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Still only carries 1 person.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile europe where you see people with renault twingos do more with their cars.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Heck people carry more on their bicycles that many ever carry on their trucks.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Actually true lol. I see people here with trailer thingies for their bicycles and they carry stuff with it. It probably has the same bed size as the newest "ford f-550 ultra extreme plus carbon dioxide poisoning engine from cruise ship edition"

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[–] TehBamski 26 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, your source is just a website and not the article/page related. Also, the website's search bar is broken. I couldn't find anything related, nor simple with it. Such as "car."

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[–] Bertuccio 25 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Taking your golf bag to the course counts as hauling now?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was about to say: if a trunk would fulfill the same purpose, the bed is not useful: then it's just a less protected trunk.

So I assume correcting for that, this stat would also be >70%

[–] FireRetardant 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Everytime someone tells me they need a pick up truck for work purposes, I always think no, 95% of the time you are far better of getting a van. Who wants their tools and materials getting rained on the back of a bed? Vans are also usually lower and easier to load. The fact you can't see into the back of the van can also prevent theives.

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[–] Cris_Color 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

While this sounds very believable, an actual source would be nice. I can't find any such image on the website to view the sources they may or may not provide

Edit: the source doesn't appear to include all of the statistics in the image, but the article lists it's source is https://www.strategicvision.com/nves, which looks to be paywalled behind a subscription. It's possible the data is from the survey data linked, but I can't verify it

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But you get to own the libs every day so it evens out.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I haul, tow, go off road more frequently in my Yaris.

[–] Randelung 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that's a quality car, that doesn't count.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just an example of when folks think they need a truck, most often what they really need/want is a fucking trailer hitch.

Excluding childish hotwheel fantasies, of course.

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[–] Coreidan 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Or if you’re like my neighbor you live in a town house and never tow anything and never use the bed for anything.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gender affirming truck. But seriously, I will never ask someone to haul stuff for me. It's like you didn't buy a truck to haul my shit around. There are also seasons of life where a truck would be super useful. What I'm saying is I need a fucking truck you bitches.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I just rent a pickup truck from U-Haul for $21 per day. I'm never gonna need it more than 1 day.

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[–] Iheartcheese 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Getting this while I'm high off my ass felt like a ninja was jumping out at me. That is a beautiful alert.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Emotional Support Cowboy Outfit.

For when you are too fierce for the chaps there is the F-150.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I imagine it's pretty much the same in UK - a lot of the people using them for work might be better off with a small van.

But then, they don't look 'manly' do they?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Feeling good about my mid sized truck in the mountain west. Haul weekly, trailer monthly, off road monthly, at least (remote trailhead access)

I don't know what I couldn't do which would necessitate one of the huge new full sized trucks, aside from towing construction equipment or line a shit ton of welding gear or live stock. The number of people who do THAT must be microscopic

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