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That new truck is a F250 which can handle a lot more weight in the bed than the small truck. It wasn't much smaller of a truck 40 years ago.
I don't know what the old one was, but let's say it was something like the Ford Courier from the 1970s. That pickup could take a load of 1,400 lb (635 kg). I don't know how often someone would need to load more than 600 kg into their truck, and that's with the curb weight of 2500 lbs or about 1100 kg. A modern F-250 has a curb weight that's more than double the Courier at about 6300 lbs or 2850 kg. It can carry 5000 lbs, (2270 kg) but again, how often is that needed?
I can understand buying a big truck if you're towing heavy things, but for loading up the bed with stuff, I wonder how often someone would get to 600 kg and say "I have lots of space remaining, but dang it, I've reached the weight limit!"
Why not compare to a F250 which was available in the 1970s? Curb weight 4,067.5 pounds, gross vehicle weight is 7,605.9. Though a lot of people moved from the F350 to the F250 when the superduty line came out in the 1990s - I'm not able to find specs of the F350 from that era, but it would be what I'd look for in a comparison.
Why compare to an F250 when the F250 is needlessly large?
Because the f250 has been around for many years and has always been a large truck. Comparing a compact truck to a large truck is not fair.
Why not, if the compact truck will do what you need?
we have no info on who is using these trucks and so cannot make any claims. for some the compact truck would do everything as well, for some it would not. if we add the assumption that someone is really doing some task we can talk.
note that when looking at specs just because it can do a job doesn't mean it should. The compact truck is rated for a 6000lbs trailer but that is more than I would do with it.