As mentioned in our first look at the Tundra, Toyota pulled off the gloves with their new full-sized pickup and made it just as big as its USA nameplate rivals and even went so far as to begin manufacturing them in Texas, of all places. And Toyota isn’t just going after the recreational pickup truck owner, someone moving up from the Tacoma or another mid-sized Japanese pickup. Toyota engineers and designers slogged through construction sites and dodged cowpies to find what real truck users needed. After all, the casual driver can use a work-ready pickup, but someone who needs a work truck can’t make do with less. At least not for very long.

So the Tundra had to meet the standards of the work truck user and in fact, go beyond them to earn the trust of those who depend on their truck for a living.

We can’t give you the answer to that question. We can, however, report on what it’s like to use Toyota’s work-ready pickup on a day-to-day basis. Our tester was a 2008 Toyota Tundra CrewMax SR5 4×4, a big white - did we mention is was big? - pickup with the optional off-road suspension.

We discovered that it was big - did we say so? - but overall not a bad place to be. See what we mean in our authentic carbuzzard.com review of the 2008 Toyota Tundra CrewMax SR5 4×4. And be sure to tell us (look down this page) what you think.