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It's been shown through statistics: People who drive Trucks and SUVs mostly use them to pick up the kids from soccer practice and haul groceries. Only a sliver of them actually use their trucks for hauling anything.
They really need to start owning it and just driving fucking minivans, they drive the "big truck" to make up for their flaccid, basic lives.
Meanwhile I'm hauling big chunks of wood I found on the side of the road in the trunk of my Corolla
People decided that minivans were "wimpy" and "for soccer moms," so now they're a stigma around them. I dunno, I wound up being foisted a rental Nissan Quest at one point for about a week and it was pretty alright by me.
I do own one of those massive trucks everyone hates (but not really, it's a 90's Silverado that's well before the stupid trend of putting the hood line nine feet in the air for no reason) but I only ever drive it when I need to move a Big Dumb Object. The rest of the time it lives in my driveway, which is most of the time. When I need it, it's clutch. The rest of the time, it's a stupid vehicle to use as a daily driver.
If its parked, its not contributing to pollution.
I think your way is the best way to approach owning a truck. Not a daily driver, mostly kept to move big objects.
That's exactly my rationale. I have other more fuel efficient vehicles if I just need to move myself, which is most of what I do on a daily basis. My Honda Metropolitan gets 117 MPG... I have an electric bicycle as well.
Someone from the fuckcars contingent will inevitably jump down my throat about this eventually, like always, and say "jUst rEnT a TrUcK!!!!!" But that's a huge pain in the ass, requires driving something to the truck rental place anyway, is full of terms and conditions and provisos, and my truck is so old and worthless that it literally costs me less per year to register and insure than renting a small U-Haul twice. So they can fuck right off in my case.
I disagree.
They drive a big truck/SUV because driving is the most terrifying and dangerous and deadly thing they do on a regular basis.
Can confirm. Have an aunt who is like 5'5" and drives a Toyota RAV4.
Never uses it for anything she couldn't use a sedan for. But it's big!
Are you really calling people basic and flaccid and suggesting they should drive a van because it fits that description? I'm not sure who you're talking to, but that's not painting a picture of a vehicle anyone would ever buy.
I own a minivan because I give zero shits what you or anyone else think about what I drive, but our next vehicle will be a SUV because minivans aren't actually superior in any way once your kids are over about 7, and they aren't really commonly made. Beyond Toyota, who even makes them? Chrysler has gone from the Town & Country to the Pacifica which is basically an SUV with sliding doors. No one wants minivans so no one makes them. Probably because people call them basic and flaccid.