>>508451454Trucks are originally for guys working outdoors, so they became a symbol of masculinity for a certain variety of conservative.
These conservative guys are usually really concerned about their own masculinity and trying to percieve themselves a certain way. So they will buy a truck, the bigger and more wasteful, the better.
They don't actually use the truck to haul anything. In fact the truck is well polished and unscuffed, and usually has a very short flatbed so it can have a large backseat for his kids and groceries.
This ludicrous vehicle can barely carry anything the flatbed is so short, has a ludicrously overpowered engine it doesn't need, and spends 98% of its time hauling the driver to the store and back, or dropping the kids off school. A glorified minivan, with very little space inside to provide for the ridiculous flatbed. A strange and wasteful vehicle that only exists for the driver's phony masculinity fantasy.