I've often thought that even work trucks spend their time mostly commuting. I work for an excavating/highway construction company, and we put 40,000 miles a year on company F-250's. Going back to my previous post about the hybrid "60 mpg" F-150's. At 14 mpg with 3.25 average gas, even at 50 mpg with 4.00 diesel then one of these hybrid F-150's would save $5500 per year.
But to start lively conversation, I honestly believe that there are very very few people that couldn't get by with even a 150 hp fullsize truck. Most work trucks spend 90% of their time hauling tools and parts. My thought is unless you pull a huge trailer more that 10% of the time you are limited not by hp, but by the load capacity of the truck. You may not accelerate to 60 in 6 seconds, but for $5500 dollars a year I'd take the compromise, and still easily work the wheels off of a pickup.
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Today's Featured Article - Identifying Tractor Smells - by Curtis Von Fange. We are continuing our series on learning to talk the language of our tractor. Since we can’t actually talk to our tractors, though some of the older sect of farmers might disagree, we use our five physical senses to observe and construe what our iron age friends are trying to tell us. We have already talked about some of the colors the unit might leave as clues to its well-being. Now we are going to use our noses to diagnose particular smells. ELECTRICAL SMELLS
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