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Cheap lorries often get a bad name. Often the concept is that used tow trucks for sale make no sense. They don’t regularly get good mileage. They are big, often loud and rarely very pretty. Here’s why old pickups should be valued, not scorned.
1. Poor mileage, compared to what?
My 1980 Plymouth Arrow Pickup gets twenty-five miles per gallon. My 1976 Chevy C-10 gets fifteen mpg. Akin new trucks are loads more powerful, but not very much better on the mileage. So, you can never make a case for a new lorry just on mileage.
2. Energy cost to make a new lorry.
An old auto, car or lorry, sitting there’s a store of value and energy. All the energy, human and fossil, that went into building that vehicle is stored right there ready to work. Scrap the automobile and almost all 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. Scrapping handy trucks is a terrible waste.
3. No money time bombs.
Older automobiles generally are inexpensive to maintain. That is’s partly because of all the infrastructure that’s’s already there to keep them going. Buy the newest and greatest and the maintenance issues could be far bigger than you dream. Take batteries. How much will a battery replacement cost for a hybrid down the road? What is the environmental cost of battery recycling and replacement? These are lurking money time bombs that may make many more modern autos unaffordable for poor folks.
4. Parts are everywhere.
Used parts and the people to install them are the way to keep old wagons working. Many autos hit the scrap heap not because they are worn out or outdated. It’s just because parts are high priced and the abilities to handle that particular model are uncommon. Drive old Chevy, Ford and Dodge wagons and forget about all that, at least for the moment.
5. Tools not toys.
trucks are tools like shovels and hammers. They can be art objects too. But older lorries keep going because they make sense. Does the newest vehicles stand the test of time? Perhaps, but perhaps not.
Inexpensive wagons represent a large amount of energy and work that has been spent. Scrap a van and you’ve made unavailable big amounts of energy invested in planning and putting that machine together. Keeping wagons working is way more environmentally judicious that scrapping them and replacing with new.
What about comparing an old Chevy pickup with newest hybrid pickup trucks SUV. No comparison again. Look at what you can move with old lorries and have a look at what your small half-breed will do. The old truck is a different beast that excels at what it does.
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