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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

I had a small pickup for my first car.  It does teach you a LOT about how to handle a car on slick roads.  I would also throw sandbags in the bed all winter long, or shovel the driveway snow into the bed.

Back in my day, we solved the "carload of friends" problem by simply loading everyone into the bed.  Thankfully, today's teens won't get away with that.

To answer the OP: we use ours now for picking up home improvement supplies or gardening supplies, getting a load of mulch or firewood, picking up a Christmas tree, carrying camping supplies, carrying bikes around.  Plenty of these could be done with an SUV or other larger enclosed car, but we went with one pickup and one sedan for our family cars.[/quote]

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