Zac Quinn 
Automotive media is largely comprised of self-indulgent layabouts with soft skills that largely have to perform a role play to get into the minds of an intended customer. This might be why they’ve traditionally struggled with trucks, a general animosity towards trucks, or why truck outlets have usually taken the form of some kind of specialized offshoot. How many auto journalists have ever actually worked a job where a capable work truck represents their livelihood, such as a painter, plumber, or mason? The answer is near zero. This is why what we’re about to share with you is so important: it’s a Ford Maverick review from the perspective of a general contractor. How good is it as a work truck? We’ll let FollowThroughDude tell you.
Ford Maverick: General Contractor Review
The gas mileage of the Ford Maverick is undoubtedly a plus side when purchasing a truck of any kind, especially when it offers All-Wheel drive. With a plethora of tools, equipment, and lumber for contracting work, the Maverick was getting around 23 mpg at 5,000+ feet in elevation. That’s mainly within a city with very little highway driving. However, when driving the Maverick on the open road in Texas loaded with equipment, the host stated that his mileage typically runs around 26 mpg.
The biggest complaint that he had from using the Ford Maverick as a work truck is the size of the bed, which certainly has been a focus of some criticism for many who have attempted to use the bed for practical purposes like hauling material. For the most part, he stated that it’s fine, and if you’re creative enough, you can certainly make it work. He intends to build a rack that will allow him to have more usable space when hauling more oversized items, and if it’s enormous, pulling a trailer is always an option.
Overall, the video presenter stated that the Ford Maverick is a contracting secret. It allows him to spend money where he needs it, rather than on irrelevant things. Gas mileage generally burns up the cost of doing work as you drive around a truck that typically gets 12 miles to the gallon. Contractors pull trailers for their bigger jobs most of the time, so the bed size isn’t a horrible drawback when fuel economy is added to the equation. So overall, the Ford Maverick is undoubtedly a viable work truck. As stated within the video, the payload is only slightly lower than his Toyota Tundra. Sure, the bed is smaller, but being innovative and adding in a bed rack or even an over-the-cab rack is inevitable for any contractor.
