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Written by man on January 31st, 2010 in Other.
Cheap trucks often get a bad name. Regularly the concept is that used tow trucks make no sense. They do not often get good mileage. They’re giant, regularly loud and rarely terribly pretty. Here’s why old pickups should be valued, not scorned.
1. Poor mileage, compared to what?
My 1980 Plymouth Arrow Pickup gets 25 miles per gallon. My 1976 Chevy C-10 gets 15 MPG. Comparable new trucks are much more dynamic, but not too much better on the mileage. So, you’ll never make a case for a new truck just on mileage.
2. Energy cost to make a new lorry.
An old automobile, car or van, sitting there is a store of value and energy. All the energy, human and fossil, that went into building that auto is stored right there ready to work. Scrap the automobile and the majority of that energy is now not available to be used. Sure, you can recycle the basic materials. You can’t recycle the value-added design and producing that went into that truck. Dumping handy trucks is a terrible waste.
3. No money time bombs.
Older vehicles sometimes are inexpensive to maintain. That’s’s mainly because of all of the infrastructure that’s’s already there to keep them going. Buy the most recent and greatest and the upkeep issues might be far larger than you dream. Take batteries. How much will a battery replacement cost for a cross-breed down the road? What’s the environmental cost of battery recycling and replacement? These are lurking money time bombs that will make many newer autos unaffordable for poor people.
4. Parts are everywhere.
Used parts and the people to install them are the way to keep old lorries working. Many vehicles hit the scrap heap not because they are worn out or outdated. It’s simply because parts are highly priced and the talents to address that model are uncommon. Drive old Chevy, Ford and Dodge lorries and forget all that, at least for the moment.
5. Tools not toys.
wagons are tools like shovels and hammers. They can be art objects too. But older trucks keep going because they make sense. Will the newest vehicles stand the test of time? Maybe, but maybe not.
Cheap lorries represent plenty of energy and work that has already been spent. Scrap a van and you have made unavailable big amounts of energy invested in planning and putting that machine together. Keeping trucks working is much more environmentally prudent that ditching them and replacing with new.
What about comparing an old Chevy pickup with new hybrid pickup trucks SUV. No comparison again. Look at what you can move with old wagons and look at what your little hybrid will do. The old lorry is a different beast that excels at what it does.
