Trailers can be nice- you can always find a use for them. We have an old 16' car hauler and a trailer made from the back half of a GMC. They're both very useful. Depending on how much you travel, it can be very much worth it for reliability. If your truck (Power unit) goes down, you can pull it with another truck. A one-piece assembly can't do that. I owned a Ford E350 box van- it was an unreliable piece of junk. When it broke down, it caused major problems for us. With a trailer, I could have just hooked it up to the old Chevrolet and been back on the road in no time.
A Dakota with a cap should have about the same room for stuff as a cargo van. You have a permanent "bulkhead" in the form of the back of the cab, but 4x4 capabilities are well worth that compromise.
For more serious loads, a Chevy K2500 with a cap, and pulling a cargo trailer, would offer a lot of hauling capacity.
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