But as with S.U.V.'s, this new national fleet of pickups comes with sobering attendant costs, including serious harm to the cars the trucks hit and low fuel mileage.
The family home had a fleet of pickup trucks, one said.
The following March, when the Seleka reached Bangui, they rode in a fleet of pickup trucks with shooters in the back.
Squatting along a metal fence, Hazaras, Tajiks, Pashtuns, Uzbeks and Baluchis from all corners of the country watch the local drivers move through a fleet of dilapidated pickups — raising hoods, inspecting dipsticks.
GM will have a fleet of superbig pickups, too, with engines up to 8.1 liters.
ALTe Powertrain Technologies, another start-up, converts existing fleets of full-size pickups and vans to plug-in-hybrid powertrains, and wants to see federal credits expanded to include conversions of used vehicles, John Thomas, the chief executive, said in a statement.
A company fleet of 50 pickup trucks are in radio contact.
That brigade claimed more than 100 fighting men and a small fleet of armored pickup trucks.
"We have tried to settle the issue of Kunduz through negotiation but we have been forced to choose a military solution," he said.] At the front lines, the most colorful moment of the day came when a fleet of Toyota pickup trucks came rumbling across the no-man's land from Kunduz.
