Very true, but being retired, fixed income, and the fact that my truck isn't REALLY broken keeps me from taking on a payment. Now if I were looking at serious work coming soon, I might trade it off for a new one, but I have decided my options are upgrade or swap with comperable $$$. Currently leaning a lot lore towards upgrade. we like the truck a lot, and I think before it gets to the point of requiring a new truck, we'd probably get rid of the trailer. I don't really want to do that either. I owe no money on truck or trailer, nor our car, we only have a home mortgage, and I wish I didn't have that.
I got this truck (actually the 2006 GMC was first) a few years before I was forced to retire, in '09, since I knew it was coming. Mandantory age thing. Kn owing I didn't want a payment going into retirement.