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Plannning the day just to go and rent is a big pain in the rear. Had my first little truck in college because I wanted to do construction to make money and was also fun. I have had one or more ever since. You will be suprise how often you will find yourself driving it. Even when you don't really need it, why teat up the minivan with just 2 pieces of 2x4 or a bag of gravel for your yard. I see that you are in CA, if you have the room, I say get the truck. I can't live without a truck or a large vehicle. I am in the construction business, but do not really need a pick-up too often. Instead I drive my S2000 a few times a week.
You could find a Ford or GM full size crew cab, or whatever you call them with the rear seats for 3-4k in pretty good shape. One of my men just bough a Dodge 3/4 ton truck like that 4 months ago for 3200 bucks and the thing was well taken care of and in very good shape. It had 120k miles. no problem yet and he drives it everyday. If you can find a good older diesel truck ( I have a older cummins), they last a long time without too much maintance. I drive my truck once every 3 weeks or so. It starts right up and have not put much money in it. It just turned 100k miles.
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