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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.