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Cheap trucks regularly get a bad name. Regularly the idea is that tow trucks for sale make no sense. They do not often get good mileage. They are huge, often 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 twenty-five miles per gallon. My 1976 Chevy C-10 gets 15 MPG. Akin new trucks are miles more strong, but not very much better on the mileage. So, you’ll never justify a new lorry just on mileage.

2. Energy cost to make a new truck.

An old vehicle, car or lorry, sitting there’s a cache of value and energy. All the energy, human and fossil, that went into building that auto is stored right there prepared to work. Scrap the car and most 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. Ditching handy trucks is a terrible waste.

3. No money time bombs.

Older automobiles sometimes are inexpensive to maintain. That is’s partly because of all the infrastructure that is’s already there to keep them going. Buy the latest and best and the maintenance issues might be far larger than you dream. Take batteries. How much will a battery replacement cost for a half-breed down the road? What’s the environmental cost of battery recycling and replacement? These are lurking cash time bombs that may make many more recent autos unaffordable for poor people.

4. Parts are everywhere.

Used parts and the people to install them are the way to keep old wagons working. Many vehicles hit the scrap heap not because they’re worn out or out of fashion. It’s simply because parts are expensive and the skills to address that model are rare. Drive old Chevy, Ford and Dodge lorries and forget all that, at least for now.

5. Tools not toys.

wagons are tools like spades and hammers. They can be art objects too. But older wagons keep going because they make sense. Does the newest vehicles stand the test of time? Perhaps, but perhaps not.

Inexpensive trucks represent a lot of energy and work that’s already been spent. Scrap a truck and you’ve made unavailable big amounts of energy invested in planning and putting that machine together. Keeping trucks working is much more environmentally judicious that dumping 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 wagons and take a look at what your small cross-breed will do. The old truck is a different beast that excels at what it does.