you ended the post saying that if you didnt have the truck now, you wouldn’t buy another one

Have you actually thought this through or is it just some automatic cognitive dissonance reaction from owning a truck?

I think it has more to do with your reading comprehension and thinking I said anywhere that I own a truck.

I think this argument is a losing battle on this community. It’s clear there is no room for nuance or reason.

if it’s a small truck then buy a small truck and not giant penis extender with no ability to haul a damn thing.

Ok, so is this whole discussion a misunderstanding?

I’m saying “there are valid uses for a truck” and (from what I thought) everyone else is saying “all trucks are bad, you don’t need a truck”.

But now you’re saying that the discussion is explicitly the exact truck that’s in the photo and small trucks are ok? Is that what you’re saying?

do you expect when you post anonymously about “needing” a gigantic truck with a extended cab

I never said “need” once.

Ever heard of double bagging?

Cause THAT’S environmentally friendly.

Or a trailer?

A bunch of assumptions there.

a burn barrel?

LMAO, that’d be a helluva fast way to get fined around here. I’m in the “country”, but it’s not in the middle of nowhere. It’s a neighborhood built just a bit out from a small town of 5000 people. It’s “country”, but kind of isn’t at the same time. I have to register with the county each time I want to have a fire in the fire pit. And burning garbage is a fast way to get in crap. And not to mention monumentally stupid.

And all I said was it’s not a good use case for a truck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ok, fair. But I know people who need a truck because they have nowhere to store a trailer. A friend of mine works in construction and uses his truck for carrying materials, tools, hauling away garage, etc. And he lives in an apartment.

Agreed.

But I don’t have a truck.

if you’re worried about scratches to your vehicle,

I said “mess up the interior” with “leaky garage bags”. But yes, the inside is scuffed also.

maybe you should move back to the suburbs.

Thanks for gatekeeping where I live, you clearly know everything about me.

I don’t know the exact dimensions, but it’s big enough that I actually had to get rid of my 2015 golf because the front passenger seat became unusable. And I’m not exaggerating. The car seat barely fit with the front seat pushed all the way forward and leaned forward past vertical.

I know this is a common complaint with parents in the past few years in Canada. I don’t know if child car seat regulations are different at all in the US. I don’t think they are, I’m just not sure.

I’m not getting a truck. I’m not in the market for a truck. All I said was “here’s a good use case for a truck”. I’m not looking for suggestions or help. This wasn’t meant to be a round table discussion to fix my predicament.

It was just a counterpoint to “all trucks are stupid”.

I’m not arguing that. You have a fair point.

But my argument about a use case for a truck isn’t about MY truck (I don’t have one), it was merely about the valid use for owning a truck.

I’m getting by right now by wrecking the inside of my car (it’s already done). I looked at getting a roof rack, but the quote I got was around $1400. But that only would help with getting new drywall. Not broken up garbage drywall, and wouldn’t help with bags of garbage.

Well, for one, I don’t have a truck. Too expensive.

Second, child care seats in North America were revised recently to be larger so that they can protect children better.

To put it in context, putting a child seat in my 2013 Jetta makes it so that the front passenger can barely fit. Anyone over 5’ 6" has to srunch their legs to fit.

To get a roof rack installed on my car would be over $1000. I checked.

A trailer isn’t out of the question, it just adds a whole new level of inconvenience. It’s extra time to move the car, hook up the trailer, verify the electrical is working (I always check left-right-breaks-4way whenever I connect a trailer), then parking the trailer, disconnecting it, then parking the car. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but that time quickly adds up, and it can get 35+ in the summers and -30 in the winters (Celsius). When getting the kid ready to leave for daycare it’s easier to load up in the relatively comfortable garage. I know that’s a first world problem, but a truck would just simply all of that.

To be clear, I’m not getting a truck because they’re as expensive as a sports car now, but the point stands.

Well, I can’t shove drywall, leaking smelly garbage, construction scrap, etc into a Ford Edge without seriously messing up the inside. So that kind of way.

Lol. This isn’t an insult to me the way you want it to be.

I live out in the country. We don’t get garbage pickup. The garbage dump is very close to my child’s daycare. It’s 20 minutes away. It’s open from 8am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday. I either bring the garbage with me when I go to daycare, or I have to schedule time off from work to take out garbage.

I have a Ford Edge, so no, a minivan wouldn’t work. To be clear, it’s not impossible. But a truck would be 10x more convenient.

Yes, but the regulation is a “amount of fuel per weight of vehicle”. In absolute terms it’s more.

It’s like when you’re buying produce. $10 for 10 strawberries ($1.00 per berry) and $15 for 20 strawberries ($0.75 per berry). The $15 option is “only” $0.75 per berry, but it’s also just more money in total.

What about people who need extra room for a child’s car seat (they’re huge nowadays) and also need to carry stuff the way a truck does?

Edit: I live out in the country and I’m in need of a pickup for carrying loads of stuff. Putting it in the back of my Ford Edge is highly inconvenient as it doesn’t fit in one load and messed up the interior (the sides of the trunk are scratched to hell now.

And my point was simply that there are entirely legitimate uses for a pickup truck. 98% of people don’t have a legitimate use case, but that didn’t mean no one does.