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Fact #405: January 2, 2006
Pickups Off-Road

Sixty-two percent of pickup truck owners say they never drive their trucks off-road, according to a recent survey. Another 20% of the respondents say that they use their vehicle off-road less than once a month. Only 4% of the pickup truck owners surveyed indicated that they drive their pickups off-road on a daily basis.

Question: How often do you use your vehicle for driving off-road?
Graph showing survey results of respondents when asked how often they use their vehicle for driving off-road: daily, weekly, monthly, less than monthly, and never.

Supporting Information

Question: How often do you use your vehicle for driving off-road?
  Share of Respondents
  Daily Weekly Monthly <Monthly Never
Driving Off-Road 4% 6% 9% 20% 62%

Source: R.L. Polk and Company, Pickup Truck Usage Study, prepared for Environmental Defense, September 2005, N=301. Survey respondents owned 2004 or 2005 model year pickup trucks.

 

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