You can't do that. You can rent a truck no problem, but a truck that you can actually use as a truck cannot be rented. They carefully check to ensure you didn't scratch any paint, and that means no hauling.

There are work a rounds, but they are limited (home depot will rent a truck but the fine print is only to go from home depot to your house, no other trips). If you have a CDL you can rent a commercial truck that lets you work it. However for general purpose I need a truck to be a truck the average person can't rent.

I don’t know about your state, but here in WA you can rent a “commercial” big box truck from UHaul, Penske and others with no CDL. I rented a 26 feet box truck for my move and drove it around town just fine. They do care about damage, but they don’t consider scratches to be damage.

This is just wrong. Besides Home Depot, who aren't going to literally sic the gestapo on you if you use it to run a 2nd errand, there are plenty of companies that rent beater trucks for hauling anything you like.

You can rent from U-haul and use it as an actual work truck no problem.

I damaged a U-haul once and it was fine, it was all covered.

We rented a U-haul this year and hauled about 2000lbs of stuff to the dump with it in one trip.

Home Depot et al also rent pickup trucks by the hour (something like $20) and they're quite capable and nobody checks the paint.

As long as you bring it back and it's not on fire they're unlikely to care.

You can even optimize by buying your own trailer so you can load and unload at your convenience, and only rent the truck to move the trailer - and trailers (even enclosed ones or dump ones) are significantly cheaper than trucks, and really only need tires as maintenance.

your comment is flat out wrong. Lots of places will let you rent a pickup truck and use it for work - that is literally the point of a pick up truck.

Who said anything about 5 times a year?

And most people on this site are driving ICE cars and SUVs which are much less efficient than an F-150 EV and are themselves very oversized.

George Bush was giving everyone $10k back on new fullsized pickup trucks. Why not get one was my question at the time.

$10k and getting a brand new truck every tax year has to be one of the greatest and most successful "carrot" tax incentives ever conceived of by a government office.

This is also an argument against most people owning a car larger than a subcompact like the Honda Fit.

There's a lot of things you can move with a car that are simply easier and less hassle with a truck.

And I say this as someone who owns a fleet of station wagons.