So this year when I decided to head back to Alaska for one more shot at silvers, I decided to substitute a fishing guide with something far more practical: a rented pickup truck.
Also nearby is the Chevrolet SSR, for Super Sports Roadster, which has the visual impact of the Plymouth Prowler but is much more practical, thanks to a pickup bed with a hard cover.
Example: If you only haul large items a couple of times a year, it might be more practical to rent a pickup truck when needed rather than drive a gas guzzler every single day.
The Lincoln Blackwood, a fancy pickup with few practical uses, failed spectacularly.
This effect is exploited in a variety of practical devices such as microphones, phonograph pickups, and wave filters in telephone-communications systems.
The antiques market is famously volatile — unlike, say, a bar of gold or a pickup truck, items with no set market value or practical utility aren't always easy to offload.
It is more true, however, that the necessary negotiations and improvisations of pickup ball — and especially playground ball — do teach lessons in practical politics.
We skipped over pickup trucks and full-size SUVs in that they're all eminently practical rides, but their fuel economy is lacking.
Concerns are more practical than emotional for some, like Mahmoud Ghannam, 35, a mechanical engineer who works on Ford pickup trucks and lives in nearby Windsor, Canada.
