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Yeah, I am much more picky when it comes to letting people borrow my truck than I am my car, and the car is newer and worth substantially more money. When peopl
by freehunter 11y ago
Yeah, I am much more picky when it comes to letting people borrow my truck than I am my car, and the car is newer and worth substantially more money. When people want to borrow my car, they just want to get from A to B. Worst thing that can happen is they spill their Starbucks or they're a little too hard on the throttle and they burn up my full tank of gas.
When they want to borrow my truck, they want to haul things with it. When you're hauling with someone else's truck, weigh limits don't matter because transmissions don't usually fail spectacularly the first time you haul 3000 lbs over the towing limit. Frames don't get bent and shocks don't get blown the first time you load the bed down with 500 lbs too many cinder blocks. What's the tongue weight limit on your friend's truck? What's the bed weight limit? Doesn't matter, right? Plus the liability if they don't hook up the trailer right, aren't using the lights or sway bar, etc. And god forbid they drive it in four wheel drive on dry pavement and wreck my center differential.
The very nature of "I need to borrow a truck" is the very reason why I don't lend mine out, and likely the reason why renting a truck is so expensive. Driving a rental car hard is nothing compared to driving a rental truck hard.