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Brandon Marcus

Your Pickup Bed Is Empty 95% of the Time — Do You Actually Need a Truck?

Your Pickup Bed Is Empty 95% of the Time — Do You Actually Need a Truck?
A pickup can offer valuable towing and cargo capability, but those benefits make the most financial sense when drivers actually use them – Shutterstock

Your pickup bed spends most of its life carrying nothing but weather, leaves, and perhaps an abandoned grocery receipt. That raises a practical question: if hauling rarely happens, does a truck still make sense?

Pickup trucks can handle jobs that overwhelm ordinary cars and SUVs. They can tow trailers, carry bulky cargo, travel rough roads, and tackle work that would make a sedan look deeply offended. But those abilities come with tradeoffs that show up every day, not just on the Saturday afternoon when someone needs to move a couch.

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