> And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.
Reads to me like 2/3 of truck owners use their bed at least twice a year.
From the same paragraph:
> 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never).
Over 25% of trucks are used for towing.
> Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less.
A third of truck owners go offroad.
Add all that up and it sounds like pickups are getting a lot of use. There are no stats on what percentage of people do at least one of those things so we are left to guess but by the claims in the article it is at least "most".
> 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never).
Even once is not never, because nothing else will do that job.
Note too that there people who use their bed but never tow, the fact that a truck could serve either purpose but for some only does one doesn't mean that those people don't use a truck.
mulmen|3 years ago
Reads to me like 2/3 of truck owners use their bed at least twice a year.
From the same paragraph:
> 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never).
Over 25% of trucks are used for towing.
> Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less.
A third of truck owners go offroad.
Add all that up and it sounds like pickups are getting a lot of use. There are no stats on what percentage of people do at least one of those things so we are left to guess but by the claims in the article it is at least "most".
bluGill|3 years ago
Even once is not never, because nothing else will do that job.
Note too that there people who use their bed but never tow, the fact that a truck could serve either purpose but for some only does one doesn't mean that those people don't use a truck.
ozarker|3 years ago
mulmen|3 years ago
unknown|3 years ago
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