[jpsmith]

My dad owns full size trucks and I don't know why. He's the outdoorsman to end all outdoorsmen. He spends every weekend year 'round at his hunting cabin with his German Shorthair. His current truck is a regular cab Ram 1500. He has a cap on it so his dog crate can go back there. But I don't know why he needs the size. Perhaps it's just convention for him. In the 70s & 80s he drove International Scouts and pre-XJ Cherokees and Wagoneers (the big ones). In 1994 he bough a brand new XJ Cherokee and couldn't stand how small it was. Perhaps his being 6'6" had something to do with it. Within a year he traded it even trade for an F150 with 500 miles on it. He's been driving full-size trucks since. Given how he uses the truck, he could totally get by with a mid-size such as a Tacoma, Dakota, or Frontier. Definitely not a smaller one such as a Ranger or Colaradoanyonero. He has a Canyon for work and hates it. But it's a 2wd junker.

Now my father-in-law on the other hand, he needs a full-size truck, but not always. He currently has an '06 Tundra and a '97 Chevy 2500. The 2500 sees a ton of work with 3000lbs+ in its bed and he uses it to tow his skid-steer. But the Tundra is more or less a daily driver. Before it he had a couple of Dakotas. The Tundra was just a replacement for his Dakota when he got sandwiched between a couple of light dump trucks.