BRO! I worked for a paving company years back and the business manager had this raised modified to all hell f350 (trash). He'd get it washed every week, rarely used it for actual work other than dragging a trailer and it CONSTANTLY broke down. Damn thing was impossible to load anything but buckets cuz the bed was as high as my friggin nipples (lol).

Bonus Question: Guess how tall he was

I recently lost my '05 f150 that I used for work to frame rot, so I got a '17. I've put two holes in the bed, through the bed liner, and I haven't even been treating it that bad. It's almost as though Ford doesn't want you to use it for work harder than carrying your yeti between kids baseball games.

My dad would always use the profits from growing tobacco on a new truck every other year...

One year he bought a new truck while we were actively putting the crop in a barn.

Truck was less than 48 hrs old and he was trying to pull a fully loaded wagon across a creek to get to a barn.

With brand new wet tires, he couldn't get out of the creek. So at like 11 years old I got to watch him put a brand new truck sideways into a tree because he was too proud to unhook and let someone else pull the wagon thru the creek. But he still got it in the barn.

He wasn't even that pissed, because the only reason to buy a truck, was to use it for actual truck shit.

Hell, I probably use my car more than those people. Especially after it got hail damage, ALL illusions of "not scratching it" went out the window.

I'm not driving business clients around; my car is a tool to help me get shit done, especially when I traveled for work

I would love to have a truck (because strapping a mattress to the roof of your car isn't the best), but I make what I got work lol

Basically if you're using a pickup as a commuter vehicle.

I use my truck as a truck, but it’s the only vehicle I own; with the prices of cars AND insurance AND put food on the table… forgettaboutit 🤌

.you probably don't make good life choices.

Hey! That’s beside the point! 😮‍💨 😔

Oh for sure.

I played sports in college way back in the day, and still stay up with a lot of my old teammates. Most of us are huge, but I still give shit to every one of them that have giant trucks.

But it's still funnier when the driver of a giant truck struggles to get in/out of it and can barely see over their own steering wheel. At a certain height interior space does become a factor, but as long as you "gangster lean" you can still fit in a normal vehicle.

But I grew up on an actual farm, I've been making fun of oversized trucks since my cousin jacked his truck up so high it couldn't pull a wagon anymore. And that was back when the small truck in OPs post was sold new.

Basically if you're using a pickup as a commuter vehicle..you probably don't make good life choices.

That is false for nearly everyone. Unless you are driving double the miles of an average person, the costs of a second car that is practical for 99% of your needs and a truck for that last 1% is higher than the costs of just driving the truck for everything. You have to make payments and taxes on the truck even when it sits in the driveway. You might get a small insurance discount for a truck you rarely drive, but your insurance on two vehicles is higher than just one.

People say "just rent a truck", but every time I look into that I discover rental trucks come with a lot of restrictions such that you can't use them as a truck (I expect a truck used as a truck to get paint scratches). And the cost is so high that it won't take many rentals to making having a truck the cheaper option (getting right of the car in exchange).

Depends on the pickup these days. There are several small options available now.

scrimping pennies on everything else

I'd get that if he'd bought an RV, at least he could live in it.