As a former full-time farmer, and current part-time farmer I wish people would go back to driving cars instead of trucks.
At best you can find a four door truck with a 6.5' bed and a tiny 2.7 V6 nowadays. If you want anything with enough power to actually haul something and have an 8' bed, they're 90k+ King Ranch Fords or whatever. Because people want short bed trucks with 4 doors to drive around the fucking suburbs so they can haul boards once a year for home improvement projects.
Rant over. Subsequently, I've been shopping for a new farm truck this week. It's not gone well.
Our minivan (Town and Country) can hold 20+ 4x8s and still close the back gate. I've done it with drywall. The guy with the fake pickup truck who helped me loaded them was amazed.
Casually it does seem like there should be an untapped market for "work trucks". 9/10 times when I see someone actually hauling stuff it's in something like a 30 year old pickup with 20% cab
Yup. For example: this is why the US automakers have shoved all the Brodozers down everybody's throats; it let them duck efficiency requirements.