One of my first jobs was working at Lowes and the most entertaining part was watching idiots overload their vehicles.
In the average moron's mind:
1. Minivan is as good as a truck! Its totally legit to put a pallet or two of paver's and a dozen 80 pound bags of concrete in the back of an Odyssey.
2. Trucks are invincible, especially big tough looking ones with no real load capacity. (looking at you Fiat Ram!) My favorite was the new Dodge 1500 that the owner insisted we put two full pallets of wet sod in the bed. I'm guessing the total load was around 4k-5k. But its a big tough looking truck! Get er done!
3. There excuse is always I'm not going far, one time I asked exactly what that meant...half way across the state of CT down I95, about 40 miles...oh that's not far at all.