75% of truck owners tow 1/year or less?

[WinterDeere]

Why have to buy and register a car and a trailer when I can just use the truck?

Easy:

1. Trailers with payloads up to and over 8000# are common and cheap. Pickup trucks are 1000 - 2000# payload only.
2. Trailers with capacities of 8 - 10 cubic yards are common and cheap. Pickup trucks are ~1 cubic yard.
3. Trailers can be loaded and left, pickups you usually want to get load out same day.
4. You can have multiple trailers loaded and staged for a project, much cheaper and easier than having multiple trucks.
5. I can drive my front-end loader up onto the trailer to scoop and unload mulch, stone, etc.
6. I can transport said tractor (and mower) with the same trailer. My 3033R ain't fitting in the back of any pickup truck, even "longfoot".

As to buying and registering, my pickup cost 15x what I paid for my trailer, both new. I only have to do registration paperwork on the trailer every 5th year, here in PA.

A trailer would need enclosed sides too because I’ve gotten loads of compost and crushed rock, as a couple examples

My God... you're hauling crushed rock with a pickup truck?!? How do they even load that? Whether at the quarry or the local stone depot, their buckets are usually way too big to even hit the bed of a pickup truck, without 70% of it spilling onto the ground around or behind the truck.

Also, what's the rear axle capacity on your pickup truck? Most can't even haul 1 cubic yard of stone, at 3000# to 3500# per yard, which is the minimum order quantity most places I've been.

My Vanguard 70TV has enclosed sides, and has a 5200# payload capacity and 7000# gross. That's a pretty light trailer, most guys hauling stone have 10k# or 15k# trailers.

 

[LittleBill21]

Why have to buy and register a car and a trailer when I can just use the truck?
A trailer would need enclosed sides too because I’ve gotten loads of compost and crushed rock, as a couple examples

because i don't need a pickup truck bed 70% of the time, I don't need crappy gas mileage all of the time, and the prices demanded for pickup trucks buys me several nice trailers.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Anyone with their underwear in a knot over what others choose to drive, so long as that driving doesn't endanger others, ought to reevaluate their priorities. If someone does drive to endanger, they ought not drive anything.

As for half-ton pickups being cars, one could make that case if cars were still body-on-frame, but they're not any longer. A Roadmaster or Colony Park has more in common with a Suburban than an Outback.

I do not need my F350, but I've got one, and I like it.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

But does a car or truck drive better on flat earth? And which one for a round earth????

 

[tacticalturnip]

But does a car or truck drive better on flat earth? And which one for a round earth????

Due to the lower center of gravity, a car is better for round Earth. On flat Earth gravity is a construct and doesn't matter, so lift that truck to the sky and take the tightest corners at high speeds.

 

[WinterDeere]

Anyone with their underwear in a knot over what others choose to drive, so long as that driving doesn't endanger others, ought to reevaluate their priorities. If someone does drive to endanger, they ought not drive anything.

Trouble is, claims of hauling crushed stone in a pickup truck are exactly that. Most pickups on the road today are not configured for 3500# payload centered only over the rear axle.

 

[DarkBlack]

Trouble is, claims of hauling crushed stone in a pickup truck are exactly that.

If you’re referring to my post it’s not a “claim”, it’s a fact.
You have no idea as to the size, weight, or weight distribution within my 8’ bed, or my cab style , so you have no information to go off about whatever load on my rear axle.

 

[WinterDeere]

You have no idea as to the size, weight, or weight distribution within my 8’ bed, or my cab style , so you have no information to go off about whatever load on my rear axle.

Obviously. Hence my post:

Also, what's the rear axle capacity on your pickup truck? Most can't even haul 1 cubic yard of stone, at 3000# to 3500# per yard, which is the minimum order quantity most places I've been.

 

[DarkBlack]

My God... you're hauling crushed rock with a pickup truck?!? How do they even load that? Whether at the quarry or the local stone depot, their buckets are usually way too big to even hit the bed of a pickup truck, without 70% of it spilling onto the ground around or behind the truck.

You’re in a different world I guess.
I use 3 places around here.
2 of them use loaders with 8’ buckets, and the operators scoop the side of piles to load basically 1/2 the bucket which they drop in against the front of your bed.
The third place uses printout sheets of specific vehicle capacities to determine how much they’ll sell you, then then drive over to their lineup of buckets and quick attach the right size buckets, 1 yard, 1/2 yard or 1/3 yards.
They do this daily for 1/2 ton pickups,to cars pulling little lawn trailers or whatever.
It’s not a big deal

 

[ultrarunner]

Anyone with their underwear in a knot over what others choose to drive, so long as that driving doesn't endanger others, ought to reevaluate their priorities. If someone does drive to endanger, they ought not drive anything.

As for half-ton pickups being cars, one could make that case if cars were still body-on-frame, but they're not any longer. A Roadmaster or Colony Park has more in common with a Suburban than an Outback.

I do not need my F350, but I've got one, and I like it.

The station wagon was the utility vehicle… seats for 9 or 10 or more if just piled in plus could carry a load of plywood or Sheetrock no problem…

A carpet sales guy dad new had one and was stopped and had to get commercial plates just like a pickup.