Meh. I'd argue more people need to tow their boat than haul lumber, but I live in Florida where that's visually true.

I think people are taking my comment to read "don't get a truck" when it was really just responding to the suggestion that "return your rental and come back home and realize you need to buy more of some heavy large item" would be such a common occurrence that ownership makes more sense than renting even without some other use.