What do you drive for a truck?

[tacticalturnip]

Whoa! You can't call an SUV a station wagon.

Many peoples' delicate feelings would get hurt.

Lots of intersectionality here, like a modern college campus.

I used to haul firewood in the trunk of a 1986 Crown Victoria; it saw more use as a truck than a lot of the pickups owned by my peers at the time. Though I suppose that it was just a lame sedan, with it's anemic 5.0, lol.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Okay, since you asked nicely, here's a photo of my 1500.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Lots of intersectionality here, like a modern college campus.

I used to haul firewood in the trunk of a 1986 Crown Victoria; it saw more use as a truck than a lot of the pickups owned by my peers at the time. Though I suppose that it was just a lame sedan, with it's anemic 5.0, lol.

Somewhat similar to my girlfriend hauling bags of horse food in her Challenger Redeye, I suppose.

But normally she uses her TRX or her Ram 3500, because she doesn't like having to lift those heavy bags out of the spacious trunk.

 

[Milo]

No mention here that a trucks body must screwed to box frame in order to be a pick up truck?

A pickup truck or pickup is a light or medium duty truck that has an enclosed cabin, and a back end made up of a cargo bed that is enclosed by three low walls with no roof (this cargo bed back end sometimes consists of a tailgate and removable covering).[1] In Australia and New Zealand, both pickups and coupé utilities are called utes, short for utility vehicle. In South Africa, people of all language groups use the term bakkie; a diminutive of Afrikaans: bak, meaning bowl or container.[2]

Once a work or farming tool with few creature comforts, in the 1950s, US consumers began purchasing pickups for lifestyle reasons, and by the 1990s, less than 15 percent of owners reported use in work as the pickup truck's primary purpose.[3] In North America, the pickup is mostly used as a passenger car[4] and accounts for about 18% of total vehicles sold in the United States.[5] Full-sized pickups and SUVs are an important source of revenue for major car manufacturers such as Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, accounting for more than two-thirds of their global pre-tax earnings, though they make up just 16% of North American vehicle production. These vehicles have a high profit marginand a high price tag; in 2018, Kelley Blue Book cited an average cost (including optional features) of US$47,174 for a new Ford F-150.[6]

The term pickup is of unknown origin. It was used by Studebaker in 1913. By the 1930s, "pick-up" (hyphenated) had become the standard term.[7]

But just in case.

Conventional wisdom says a unibody vehicle doesn’t have a frame and that underneath they should be similar to passenger cars. Yet the ’17 Honda Ridgeline, the only unibody pickup in the United States, has a frame, and it is quite possibly the most interesting engineering feat in years.
“From the front of this vehicle to the back, we have framerails, just like any other truck would have,” says Kerry McClure, Honda chief engineer for the Ridgeline. “The body itself—instead of being bolted onto that framerail structure—is integrated so the floor panel sits on top of it and it is all welded together.” That’s right, the Honda Ridgeline utilizes boxed framerails in a “three-bone” or “y-bone” configuration underneath the unibody.
What’s the big difference between a body-on-frame and a unibody welded on rails? In the case of the Honda Ridgeline, it is how it is attached. A traditional body-on-frame pickup body is bolted to the frame with rubber bushings separating the two pieces, with the bed and cab being two separate entities. This helps with noise and vibration reduction for the cabin, but the rubber-bushing layer reduces the rigidity of the vehicle as a whole.

 

[mapper]

Here is a fun one; this was my wife's when we married, and it was a fun ride.

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I Australia they call those Uts, really popular there I've heard.

 

[deserteagle71]

My 2016 F150, used for most pickup-required duties:

But when there's real work to be done I fire up the Dodge/Cummins:

 

[wolc123]

 

[mapper]

My 2016 F150, used for most pickup-required duties:
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But when there's real work to be done I fire up the Dodge/Cummins:
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Lots of folks around here seem to use 1 ton dually's as their daily drivers....

 

[Jstpssng]

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I always enjoy seeing this picture.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Yet the ’17 Honda Ridgeline, the only unibody pickup in the United States, has a frame, and it is quite possibly the most interesting engineering feat in years.

That sounds a lot like what Ford tried in the 60s, with the cab and bed being one unit, on a frame. That better idea only lasted a year or two as I recall.

Anyway, guess you don't care for looking up definitions as spelled out by the DOT?
In other words, the definitions that actually count.