“I LOVE trucks! It was my first vehicle that I learned to drive in and I’ve been begging my husband to buy one – especially since we’re looking for a new vehicle! I love that you can throw all sorts of stuff in the back. I like a vehicle that is stronger and tougher and can handle just about anything you throw at it from hauling kids to lumber.” – April Ockerman, I decided to ask my girlfriends who have trucks, or whose husbands have trucks that they drive, why they love their trucks! Is a diesel truck for you? See what we thought about the GMC Sierra Denali. So when I talk to friends from other states I’m always surprised when they don’t share this love. Because in Texas, it’s a universal truth. I guess I’ve always taken the term, girls love trucks, for granted. I’m still the first one to offer to drive the moving truck, test drive the biggest newest pickup on the market, and any project that requires a truck is a good project in my book. I took my permit test and drove home in our family’s 15-passenger van. We went a few years without a truck, but we always had big vehicles. I’d even learned to drive the John Deere tractor and mow the fields. I’d driven the lawn mower plenty of times. One day he tossed me the keys and said: “Drive up and down the driveway while your brother picks up the big rocks and puts them in the back.” And I did. When I was a tween my dad upgraded to a 1993 Dodge Dakota. I loved riding beside my dad when we’d take the truck out for a weekend to go fishing or to clean out a barn and bring home some natural fertilizer for the family garden. That little truck hauled firewood almost every weekend. It was a beater that had seen better days, and at some point, it was either silver, white, or red… I’m not sure which color was the original cause someone had pieced it all together. It was a little Toyota from back in the day before they were called Tacomas. But a lot of girls love trucks, and for these women, considering anything else for their next purchase would seem like a compromise! The Best Trucks Bring Back Good Childhood Memories Some ladies choose vehicles based on what’s practical for their current stage of life, or what they think looks fashionable. Photo: Erica Mueller Not every girl dreams of owning a pickup truck. Me and my friend, Jo Ann Holt Causey, checking out the best trucks at the Texas Truck Rodeo.
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