[YTNUKLR]

I'd say a truck is very handy about 2-3 times per year for moving large stuff. Probably less frequently if I wasn't in college and moving every year or so to a new place. Each time I've rented a truck from Enterprise and it has been painless; they give you a new, low-mileage truck for about $80-100 per day, you get your job done and move on.

Additionally, you don't have to live with a truck on a day-to-day basis, getting low MPG and driving a lumbering truck that is hard to park. You don't have to store it at your house. And you don't have to worry about maintaining it or washing it.

Unless you really need a truck, every day, I'd say you would be miles ahead just renting one.

My 2¢.