Tell you what, I didn't expect to be writing a nice word about a Cybertruck this morning, but here we are. A driver over at Torque News says his two-hour dump run, hauling about 10,000 pounds, now gets done on a single charge in his Cybertruck. And the part that got my attention is what it did to his plans for the diesel.

So the setup goes like this. The man owned a Denali 2500 diesel, the kind of truck I grew up believing could pull a house off its foundation if you asked nice. His plan was sensible enough. Keep the diesel for the heavy work, run the electric truck for the easy stuff around town. That's the arrangement most folks with an EV and a trailer would figure on.

Except the Cybertruck kept finishing the job. Two hours out to the dump and back, 10,000 pounds behind it, one charge. No drama, no range anxiety, no hunting for a plug in the middle of a workday. After enough of those runs, the plan changed. The electric truck was doing the towing work he'd figured the diesel would have to handle.

Now let me be straight about what this is and isn't. A two-hour loop is about the best-case scenario for towing with an EV. You start full, you come home low, you plug in overnight, and you do it again tomorrow. That's a dump run, not a 600-mile haul to a job site in the next state. Anybody who tells you an electric truck replaces a one-ton diesel for long-haul towing hasn't hooked up a gooseneck and pointed it west. The math just doesn't work yet, and I've got no patience for pretending it does.

But that's not what this fella needed, and that's the part worth paying attention to. He had a specific job, a specific route, and a specific load. The truck did the job and held up when it mattered. Around a farm or a property with a fixed circuit of work, that's a real thing. My standard hasn't changed in thirty years of judging trucks: does it work when the road gets ugly and the load gets heavy? On this run, apparently it did. I'd guess he's saving money over feeding a big diesel too, but that's my speculation, not something out of the story.

I still wouldn't trade my setup for one. I want a truck I can fix with a socket set and a flashlight, twenty miles from the nearest paved road, and I want a fuel gauge that doesn't care about the weather. But I've also been around long enough to know that dismissing something outright because it's new is its own kind of foolishness. The same fellas who swore fuel injection would ruin trucks are still driving fuel-injected trucks.

So credit where it's due. One man, one dump run, one charge, and a plan that got rewritten because the truck kept getting the job done. No revolution in it, just a truck doing its job, and I can respect that much.