I am not a contractor but I do find myself needing to get some lumber, a few sheets of plywood, some mulch, etc. fairly often to maintain my home and/or to do s

I am not a contractor but I do find myself needing to get some lumber, a few sheets of plywood, some mulch, etc. fairly often to maintain my home and/or to do small projects. This thing would be perfect for this and would be a real improvement over having to rip everything out of my wife's minivan once a week to knock out our projects. Annoyingly I cannot use the hose to spray all the dirt/sawdust/bugs out the minivan when I am done, so that somewhat limits what I am able to do with that car. It would also be pretty convenient for when I want to toss a few bikes in the back and go explore some trails with the kids without having to strap a bike rack to back of one of our existing vehicles. I think that if the penalty for owning a truck is small (by making it easy to drive and park and by having it be fairly fuel efficient as this new Ford is) then the convenience factor becomes really compelling, even if you don't "need" a truck all the time per se. Even if you only needed to use the bed once a week, so long as the form-factor isn't a cost the other 6 days I would think this would be a pretty solid thing to have at your disposal. In a similar vein, most people don't "need" seating for 5 in their daily driver sedan but it is simpler to just have that extra space available at all times for the twice a week that you put the whole family in and go to a restaurant.