I don’t really understand this. The Frontier is 3 inches taller and two feet longer (in similar four dour configuration. It’s 10 inches longer otherwise). That’s not a bit here and there, in height and length that’s roughly the same difference as between an Frontier and and F150 Super Crew with the 6.5ft bed (though…

What do you consider a “small” truck? The Maverick is almost the same exact size as my former ‘97 S10. The maverick wheelbase is 2" shorter, overall length is 3.5" shorter, but it is 4.5" wider. I consider a S10 to be a small truck.

Trying to boost their numbers by posting old shit. 

You don’t actually have to defend every dumb thing on here, especially when it’s obviously being forced on the staff by the shitty upper management. 

Have you stood next to a Tacoma lately? Those things are pretty big.

Remember when the Dakota first came out in 1987? It really screwed with people’s minds because it wasn’t little and it wasn’t big. It invented the mid-size truck category.

Lobbyists don’t want no repeal on the Chicken Tax.  That would mean too much competition, even if competition is good for us consumers.

The trouble is nobody buys standard cab trucks anymore, so to get a useable bed the truck has to grow in length. As for height, everybody wants to feel macho I guess.

The Goose package will have windows that don’t roll down.

What comes next for the Maverick?

I’m just hoping they’ll have some option packages named “Goose” and “Iceman.”

We could see something like the Chevy S-10 or Dodge Dakota again.

Yeah logging truckers are scary, I drive through one of their routes in SC occasionally and they really just hire anyone with nominally operable limbs to drive those trucks. I’ve seen multiple people pulling onto the shoulder to avoid a head-on collision on the two lane roads they take.

Came here to mention the excellent John Oliver story.

That’s a big hope, but there will be more truck drivers in 10 years, not less. The world will get increasingly globalized, and shit still needs to be moved from place to place. Maybe self driving trucks will do some of the driving, but it’s a fairy tale to think it’s going to be a revolution in the next decade. 

So prices are going up, pay is stagnant, yet profits are at record highs. I wonder where all that extra profit is going...

And now we’re trying to get cheap labor out of younger and younger people. Just like in the old days!

Oh yeah this happens all the time, even more so in this market. 

Ironically, I was an English major in college and even taught HS English for many years before launching my business. Though as a teacher I always got along better with the math and science folks.

What?

Tom writes articles like someone that makes sense of nuanced numbers all day, and I’m here for it.