Trucks: what do you drive?

[Field-of-Dreams]

My little Escort is DOA and I figured it's time to get my own truck. I can't keep borrowing Jane's all the time!

I found a nice 2006 Ford F-150 in my price range and reasonable mileage. Applying for financing today, keep your fingers crossed...

SO, what do y'all drive??

 

[Sue_C.]

2004, 3/4 ton 4x4 Chevy Silverado with extended cab. I LOVE my truck.

I don't drive it except when hauling my trailer, with the price of gas, it is much cheaper to drive my little grocery-getter, a Chevy Aveo.

 

[Jill]

An F150 is my truck, too, and I love it

 

[JAX]

2011, 3/4 ton 4X4 Super Cab Dodge Laramie.

Wanted to build a barn instead of these run in sheds but vehicle was having problems and could no longer pull a trailer... so I got a truck instead of a barn!!

 

[circlesinthesand]

2000 Chevy 3/4 ton, 4 door with a custom extended bed, that sucker is LONG, hard to park, and EATS fuel but it's a pulling beast and handles a fully loaded 16ft stock trailer with ease. I'd love to get something newer, maybe not quite as big or more to the point, at least not as long, and downsize my trailer to a 2 horse with a small sleeper but we just bought a brand new little crossover SUV to replace our car who was on it's last leg. The Hyundia Santa Fe, which we are loving BTW, just as fuel efficient but with more room than our little car. So with the new SUV, a newer truck isn't in the cards for another 3 or 4 years.

 

[Riverrose28]

I drive a 1999 Chevy Silvarado, 2500, extended bed, three door. He's the best truck I've ever owned in my whole life, and believe me, I burned up some fords, even a one ton, and a dodge. My hubby drives a 1994 Chevy silvarado to work and back everyday. My truck is also a pulling machine, I pull a 32' horse trailer with living quarters, been all the way to Nationals several times. Oh and his name is Tonka Truck, and people always comment on my tag which is TONKATK.

 

[Performancemini]

I drive a 2003 Chevy Malibu. My hubby drives a Dodge Dakota p/u that used to pull our trailer but had to be retired from that-in fact it needs to be retired PERIOD!!! Then we share a p/u with our son that we use for the horse trailer: a Chevy Silverado with full cab and short bed. It's a '97. So-we need a new truck!

 

[Field-of-Dreams]

......Oh and his name is Tonka Truck, and people always comment on my tag which is TONKATK.

I always name my cars, too!

The last one was Perry.... I loved that little car.

 

[tagalong]

2008 F150 supercab 4X4. Ford calls the colour "stone green" but it looks bronze or metallic brown.

 

[StarRidgeAcres]

Prior to my divorce, I drove (only when hauling) a 2007 Dodge 3500 MegaCab (think that's what it was called), Cummins, dually with a hauler bed instead of a traditional bed. That thing could PULL but sure ate fuel. Here is a pick of it with the trailer I had at the time also. Loved that truck. But now I drive 2 Ford Explorers, a 6 cyl for daily driving and an 8 cyl for pulling my 2 horse. It works great for that, but would like a truck again in the future.

Life does drastically change after divorce, but sometimes for the better!

 

[Boss Mare]

I drive a one ton Silverado dually. Four door / 4x4.. Gas not diesel. Love it. My everyday car is a Suburban 4x4. I spend a lot of money is fuel. LOL

 

[MajorClementine]

Ford F350. Love it but sometimes it's a little overkill. When you need one that big nothing else will work but I'd like to sell my Jeep Liberty and get an F150.

 

[REO]

Ours is a F350 dually super cab with a 460 engine. It died last year in Aug so we've been without a truck all this time

HARD to get hay without a truck.

Then our old used car died too (a few months after we got it)

So he got a loan on his 401k and bought this little Buick SUV. Which of course can't pull our hourse trailer! So we took the change from the loan and got this little MINI trailer!

Isn't this the cutest "rig" you've ever seen?

 

[Field-of-Dreams]

Called my insurance agent, it's only $20 more a month for this truck....

Now, hoping to hear about the financing! I go for a test drive tonight if everything clears!

 

[minimomNC]

Like Parmela said, life does come with changes. Before we left the farm, I drove a 2003 Ford F-350 King Ranch Edition Dually 4 wheel drive with 4 doors. Great truck, easy ride as long as it was pulling the trailer. When I traded it in, I got two cars for it so now I drive a 2004 Buick Le Sabre custom. Only 55000 on it and it rides like a dream. Plus great on gas. I did also have a 2001 Dodge Ram that I loved but it wasn't enough truck for the trailer I had.

 

[HGFarm]

Chevy Silverado 3/4 ton- regular cab- nothing fancy but I just love this truck. My old truck is still running with about 300K miles on it and was such a good truck, so had to have another.

 

[Miniv]

We own a 2002 F250 extra cab.........Does great for hauling the trailers we have now.

Back when Larry was doing horse transport we had a F350, but his trailer was 34 ft.

 

[ozymandias]

We have a workhorse - a Dodge Ram Cummins 3500 full ton which is really hubby's truck (complete with his bumper sticker that says "I'm retired, go around me") then last month we bought our son a late HS graduation pressie of a new black 2012 Ford F150..now that baby is SWEEEEET

It took him less than a week to put in black tinted windows - as black as legally allowed, a top of the line stereo system and a state of the art security system (go figure 22 year olds!) lol. It's "technically" ours as we bought it - so it's sort of in the family (is that cheating?)

I just can't part with my turbo charged street racer lol

I keep telling hubby "you may be able to pull it there, but I can be there before you're out of the drive!".

 

[Carolyn R]

Same here ozymandias, Dodge Ram 3500 Crew Cab Cummins diesel. It was my husband's first new vehicle. I fought him tooth and nail, I couldn't justify the cost of a diesel, but I must admit,It' nice that the fuel efficiency only drops approx. Two miles when pulling a sixteen foot stock trailer with a full size horse in it.

 

[circlesinthesand]

It took him less than a week to put in black tinted windows - as black as legally allowed, a top of the line stereo system and a state of the art security system (go figure 22 year olds!) lol.

LOL, It's not just 22 yr olds...when we bought the Santa Fe, hubby immediately wanted to tint it with the darker than 'legal' tint (I forget how he calls it, something like cop tint, no that's no right...I dunno he had a slang term for it, it's just darker than the legal tints, which is still legal for him, since he works for the sheriff's dept. I vetoed that, it's already plenty dark enough for me, but he still talks about it occasionally.

Then last month when we sold my old stepside '94 chevy which he had turned into his 'boom' truck after we got married, he pulled the amps and speaker box and wanted to put it in the Santa Fe too...I said, not no but #$%! no! I swear I'm living with a teenager some days, sigh...he's way too old to be booming down the road. He's gonna start looking like those old men that go buy convertibles and drive around with their bald heads shining in the sun! Thankfully he still has all his hair but that's just good genetics not youth on his side! I'd say midlife crisis but he's always been this way!