traingang

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.