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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I really don’t understand the fetish for small pickup trucks. They aren’t coming back, if only due to safety standards. Plus, you can’t get in them while wearing a hard hat.

The smaller trucks are primarily for non-business uses like hauling smaller amounts of lumber or mulch, possibly with a smaller trailer in tow. You know, situations where nobody is wearing a hard hat.

Do people really get into trucks with hard hats on?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

No, they do not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do people really get into trucks with hard hats on?

Every day.

Why not use a regular pickup truck for the smaller amounts? They have them for rent at every Home Depot. I've never understood keeping a toy pickup around to haul some bags of mulch, minivan does the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Minivan is enclosed and you can't hose it out.

A minvan is just an enclosed truck anyway.