<prompt> Human: So my husband does a lot of woodworking and other type projects that are really really really annoying to do right now with the two cars that we have. He has a coupe style car, and I have a sedan. Hes really wanting a truck to make it easier to haul stuff like that in, especially because after we buy a house we plan to do a lot of projects. My problem is that not only do trucks hold their value for a really really long time and are fairly expensive, even when several years old, they get awful gas mileage and he drives about 30 minutes to work right now. In addition, we would never be able to take it on trips or anything like that, and would probably naturally end up using my car for everything and running up on the miles on it a lot faster. So something were thinking about doing is trying to find a really cheap truck just for hauling stuff, and then buying an actual commuter car as his main car. Is this a relatively viable thing to do? Where could we go about finding a cheap truck that isnt absolutely falling apart? I looked on Craigslist and theres only a handful and theyre all 15k. I did see a few on county auction websites, but I have no idea what those actually end up going for when its all said and done. And Im not sure how that works with payment, I know the loan I got for my car was through PNC and they had a lot of stipulations about how old the car could be, the miles it had, etc. So would we need to prepare to pay cash? And would this cost a ton of money in car insurance?  <response>: A trailer is perfect for this and its exactly what I have. Remember that a typical half ton pickup only holds 1000 pounds of cargo. Any cheap trailer can do that. Years ago, I owned a snowmobile and pulled it with a Honda CRX 5 hours into New Hampshire with no issues whatsoever. Chances are, your husband isnt going to go more than a few miles from the lumber yard to your house. 