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For many years I worked as a tree surgeon at a big firm over west. When I started out the runaround/quoting vehicles were all Vauxhall Astra vans or VW Caddys - could fit all you’d need for a day doing quotes, running forgotten saws to the lads or whatever else. My Astra was a rocket ship and could tow fairly big bits of plant with ease.
The 2 directors had Mitsubishi Warriors to float around the suburbs in.By the time I left almost everyone above a certain level had a lifted Ford Ranger with macho accessories as a company motor.
Yes, very occasionally they’d end up towing something or pulling a stuck box truck out of the mud on site but they were utterly useless.
I refused to take one and hung onto my Astra van until it finally shit the bed.
Those pickups are dogshit to drive, loads of blind spots(especially the lifted ones) and shit to park. Any 3pt turn is a 7pt in one of them.Anyone who chooses to buy one is definitely a bit of a bellwhiff.
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This is the aspirational vehicle of choice for all the hardman builders and roofers around here (outer western London burbs).