I got supplies delivered. I hired out carting. My equipment fit in a hatchback. It's not hard. Plenty of trades do need a truck--though usually a van--but that tends to be for a mobile toolbox, not hauling.

I can't, of course, know what motivates everyone's vehicle purchases. But with truck sales up, new home builds flat or declining and recent spikes in disposable income, it's hard not to see vanity when highways become seas of clean pickup beds and king cabs.