Ok, Do-It-Yourselfer (DIY) truck owners, time to argue...
In the last year, my wife and I have renovated two houses.
Would owning a truck be more convenient than our car for this purpose? Of course. Duh.
But owning my own private plane and airport, with my own staff of 24-7 aircrew so I can take a long-distance vacation without standing in line at the public airport would be more convenient, too. It would also be ludicrously expensive for the value it provided me.
So, let's explore the following questions:
(1) Do I need a truck to renovate the houses, given that I need lots of sheet rock, plywood, 2x4s, 2x6s, 4x4s, etc.?
No, I do not. If I have a really big order of materials, I can have Lowe's deliver it for about $80.
I might need that once per house, or maybe twice per house if there's a lot of work. I'll wager that, with major repairs on two different houses this last year, I'm doing way more DIY work than most folks.
That's $160 to $320 for deliveries. A roof rack (1 time cost) is less than $200. That's less than a single monthly truck payment.
(2) What is the relative cost difference between that and my sedan with a roof-rack?
I can buy a new Ford sedan for less than $15,000. The typical truck in the parking lot at work is in the $40,000 to $60,000 price range. That's 3 to 4 times as expensive. A stripped down Ford truck is $25,000, which is $10,000 more than the sedan.
So, if I buy 30+ houses and fix them up I'll break even on the cash price of both vehicles. Oh, yeah. Cash price. But most people finance so maybe that's more like 40+ houses...
I'm ignoring the extra insurance costs, and the extra gas costs too.
Sorry, as a very active DIYer, buying a new truck instead of a new sedan makes zero sense.