Bogie,
It hit me some time after I answered you that you might not know what I need the truck for. My current job (and I foresee the same line of work for the next few years) is apartment maintenance. I spend a lot of time shuttling boxes, hunks of plywood, old toilets, tree branches, etc, between the seven buildings. So, yeah, I need hauling space full-time. But I do appreciate the trailer suggestion, which would help every so often when I need to haul the really big stuff with the Tacoma or S-10 or whatever I get.
I've thought about a hollowed-out minivan. Wouldn't those be pricier?