office workers who own a pickup truck, what do you use it for?

[Anonymous]

I don't know what cubicle dwellers use them for, but I've seen those things leaving interstate crashes unscathed. So maybe they are heavier and safer? (I didn't look at the ratings though.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a very old small pickup. I use it for home projects, throw the Christmas tree in the back(live in nw and get a 10% pickup discount from the guy selling trees lol), haul the kayaks, landscaping stuff, etc. My wife likes driving it to pick the kid up from a big name private school(it’s really beat up).

The funny thing is how many offer to buy the thing we get.

Same. The truck just refuses to die. We also use it to haul our small boat around. You can't find trucks that small anymore and there's been a lot of offer on it too.

[Anonymous]

We have a four door truck with a full cab so it’s very comfortable to ride in. We go hiking, camping, riding quads, all kinds of outdoorsy stuff so we use it for that. Also tailgating at sports events and concerts, and hauling furniture and stuff for ourselves and family members.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to have a pickup. I'd use it for lawn/garden work (like when buying mulch) and for trip to the dump and recycling center. I'd also use it bringing home large purchases. We have an SUV but the garden stuff can get it dirty. But, if I had a pick up, I'd probably only use it about half-a-dozen times a year for those tasks -if I bought one solely for those purpose. I've considered a king-cab type truck as a replacement to my car so I could still transport the kids. But those trucks seem so huge. When our oldest turns 16, I might like him to get a small truck, so I can borrow it and so he isn't driving a carload of his friends around.

Just an fyi, pickups are notoriously more difficult to handle in the snow and bad weather. My parents would also weigh down the back of their pickup truck during the winter, so that the backend wouldn't slide around so much. Maybe not as much of a big deal around here, since we don't get a lot of snow, but still something to think about with a newbie driver.

If it has a manual teansmission, it’s much easier to manage in snow. I drove my dad’s while I was in high school. Rear wheel drive. Was fine on snow around here. But to me it was the stick shift. Didn’t have to use brakes so much.

[Anonymous]

Inherited from family, so 0 cost to buy. And, use it for hauling yard work supplies.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to have a pickup. I'd use it for lawn/garden work (like when buying mulch) and for trip to the dump and recycling center. I'd also use it bringing home large purchases. We have an SUV but the garden stuff can get it dirty. But, if I had a pick up, I'd probably only use it about half-a-dozen times a year for those tasks -if I bought one solely for those purpose. I've considered a king-cab type truck as a replacement to my car so I could still transport the kids. But those trucks seem so huge. When our oldest turns 16, I might like him to get a small truck, so I can borrow it and so he isn't driving a carload of his friends around.

Just an fyi, pickups are notoriously more difficult to handle in the snow and bad weather. My parents would also weigh down the back of their pickup truck during the winter, so that the backend wouldn't slide around so much. Maybe not as much of a big deal around here, since we don't get a lot of snow, but still something to think about with a newbie driver.

In would worry that he would haul his (perhaps drunk) friends around in the truck bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an old 4WD Subaru that I use for hauling: trips to Costco, home improvement projects, hauling firewood, hauling stuff to the dump, buying used stuff off Craigslist, hauling furniture for friends, going up the mountain to go snowboarding, etc.

I'd LOVE a pick-up truck, but DW insisted on an enclosed vehicle. C'est la vie. We live in NW DC.

I want a pick-up truck, but DH thinks it's too redneck. Pisses me off. I'd have SO much use for it!

[Anonymous]

Put something heavy in the back to get more traction during inclement weather if you don't have a 4wd. In my opinion, it's better to buy an AWD SUV that seats 7. You can put the seats down and use it as a truck. That's what I use mine for.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an old 4WD Subaru that I use for hauling: trips to Costco, home improvement projects, hauling firewood, hauling stuff to the dump, buying used stuff off Craigslist, hauling furniture for friends, going up the mountain to go snowboarding, etc.

I'd LOVE a pick-up truck, but DW insisted on an enclosed vehicle. C'est la vie. We live in NW DC.

I want a pick-up truck, but DH thinks it's too redneck. Pisses me off. I'd have SO much use for it!

I'm with your husband. Maybe because I come from a long line of New Englanders, pick ups aren't my thing.

My husband always laughs that I talk about the '3 heads' in a pick up truck whenever we are driving down to his Aunt's house south of Charlottesville. It's when you see three dopey looking adult males from the back in the "whatever the front part' of the pick up truck is called--not the bed.

[Anonymous]

I have a Dodge 3500 diesel quad cab 4x4

I drive it to work occasionally. We have underground parking and our attendants absolutely refuse to valet it, so I have to do it. It doesn't bother me, I'm used to driving it, but I can see how a lot of people would freak out about what seems like a big truck in a parking garage. For the record, it's only slightly larger than a Chevy Suburban, and plenty of people drive those in DC.

As for why I have it, we use it to do the following:

Tow speedboat
Tow horse trailer
Tow flatbed trailer with quad ATV's, Jeep, or my race car
Tow motorcycles in box trailer
Tow RV
Haul hay for horses
Haul camping gear for Boy Scout troop
Haul anything from home improvement store


Mostly it gets used more for towing than hauling (except for hay) and really there is no other way to get our toys moved around to the places we use them besides towing them with a large, powerful truck.

[Anonymous]

I have small cheap Toyota pickup I bought used. I use it to haul all my gardening supplies such as bulk mulch, hay and horse manure. Plus for any outsized general items.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have an old 4WD Subaru that I use for hauling: trips to Costco, home improvement projects, hauling firewood, hauling stuff to the dump, buying used stuff off Craigslist, hauling furniture for friends, going up the mountain to go snowboarding, etc.

I'd LOVE a pick-up truck, but DW insisted on an enclosed vehicle. C'est la vie. We live in NW DC.

I want a pick-up truck, but DH thinks it's too redneck. Pisses me off. I'd have SO much use for it!

I'm with your husband. Maybe because I come from a long line of New Englanders, pick ups aren't my thing.

My husband always laughs that I talk about the '3 heads' in a pick up truck whenever we are driving down to his Aunt's house south of Charlottesville. It's when you see three dopey looking adult males from the back in the "whatever the front part' of the pick up truck is called--not the bed.

All three of them know that's called "the cab". And all three of them probably know how to fix a vehicle when it's broken, unlike your husband.

So who's the real dope here, then?

[Anonymous]

Cheers to all of you for putting your trucks to proper use! Too many times around Nova do I see new clean trucks that Haven t ever hauled a thing...are just used 5o make punchy white dudes feel manyl.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an old 4WD Subaru that I use for hauling: trips to Costco, home improvement projects, hauling firewood, hauling stuff to the dump, buying used stuff off Craigslist, hauling furniture for friends, going up the mountain to go snowboarding, etc.

I'd LOVE a pick-up truck, but DW insisted on an enclosed vehicle. C'est la vie. We live in NW DC.

I want a pick-up truck, but DH thinks it's too redneck. Pisses me off. I'd have SO much use for it!

I'm with your husband. Maybe because I come from a long line of New Englanders, pick ups aren't my thing.

My husband always laughs that I talk about the '3 heads' in a pick up truck whenever we are driving down to his Aunt's house south of Charlottesville. It's when you see three dopey looking adult males from the back in the "whatever the front part' of the pick up truck is called--not the bed.

All three of them know that's called "the cab". And all three of them probably know how to fix a vehicle when it's broken, unlike your husband.

So who's the real dope here, then?

You, for stereotyping and being absurdly boastful of you sad truck knowledge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have an old 4WD Subaru that I use for hauling: trips to Costco, home improvement projects, hauling firewood, hauling stuff to the dump, buying used stuff off Craigslist, hauling furniture for friends, going up the mountain to go snowboarding, etc.

I'd LOVE a pick-up truck, but DW insisted on an enclosed vehicle. C'est la vie. We live in NW DC.

I want a pick-up truck, but DH thinks it's too redneck. Pisses me off. I'd have SO much use for it!

I'm with your husband. Maybe because I come from a long line of New Englanders, pick ups aren't my thing.

My husband always laughs that I talk about the '3 heads' in a pick up truck whenever we are driving down to his Aunt's house south of Charlottesville. It's when you see three dopey looking adult males from the back in the "whatever the front part' of the pick up truck is called--not the bed.

All three of them know that's called "the cab". And all three of them probably know how to fix a vehicle when it's broken, unlike your husband.

So who's the real dope here, then?

You, for stereotyping and being absurdly boastful of you sad truck knowledge.

And yet, the stereotype about you appears to be spot-on. A snobby yankee, looking down her nose at people whom she and her husband see as inferior, but can do things they themselves are unable to. You said it. "dopey looking guys in a pick up truck". Clearly those aren't words of praise for those guys you're speaking of. But as someone who knows lots of people like that which you think you're describing, I can assure you those dopey looking guys probably know lots of things that are beyond you.

As for "sad truck knowledge", I'm not really sure what that even means.... maybe the truck is sad? Or is it sad to have knowledge about trucks? I dunno, it all seems a odd no matter how you rationalize it.

And it's "your", not "you". Your sad truck knowledge.