I use a 4 door short bed truck, and here’s why. I need to pick up my kids half the days of the week. I don’t have a van anymore because I do demo work and I got tired of riding inside with the dust. I just build a wood rack if i need to haul more. I’d get a 4 door, long bed truck, which would be the best ever except it’s just too dang long to park. So when the kids aren’t around I fold up the rear seats and the tool boxes go in there. Is what it is. I long for the days when I drove a car with a toolbag in the trunk.
They used to make single cab trucks with a bench seat to fit 3 people total and it still had a full sized bed. If you’ve only got 2 kids that design would probably have been better for you, but they don’t make many of this style anymore.
They do make this style, but the single cab option isn’t better, it’s far worse. We have dog, back packs, sport equipment. The truck bed is always filled with tools, construction debris and the like that is actually pretty toxic (drywall dust, asbestos even sometimes, mold remediation debris, etc) and needs to stay back there. There isn’t enough time in the day to go get the kids to and from school and travel to the jobsite and clean and clear the vehicle. Insist there were a better choice but there isn’t for some.
I use a 4 door short bed truck, and here’s why. I need to pick up my kids half the days of the week. I don’t have a van anymore because I do demo work and I got tired of riding inside with the dust. I just build a wood rack if i need to haul more. I’d get a 4 door, long bed truck, which would be the best ever except it’s just too dang long to park. So when the kids aren’t around I fold up the rear seats and the tool boxes go in there. Is what it is. I long for the days when I drove a car with a toolbag in the trunk.
They used to make single cab trucks with a bench seat to fit 3 people total and it still had a full sized bed. If you’ve only got 2 kids that design would probably have been better for you, but they don’t make many of this style anymore.
They do make this style, but the single cab option isn’t better, it’s far worse. We have dog, back packs, sport equipment. The truck bed is always filled with tools, construction debris and the like that is actually pretty toxic (drywall dust, asbestos even sometimes, mold remediation debris, etc) and needs to stay back there. There isn’t enough time in the day to go get the kids to and from school and travel to the jobsite and clean and clear the vehicle. Insist there were a better choice but there isn’t for some.