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 - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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