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If you don't need two trailers, maybe just don't attach the second trailer?
In Europe, the maximum weight you're allowed to tow with a passengers car driver's license is 3500kg. And even that requires an extended licence for driving with large trailers. Everything bigger than that requires a full truck drivers license anyway (Including all the shenanigans that come with commercial freight traffic like a driving logbook, minimum resting times).
So people will either use a real truck if they need one or they'll use a passenger car if they don't.
Not sure which type of bobcat that is, but you can probably pull that with a slightly bigger station wagon, but surely with a Van.
A van is an enclosed pickup truck.
No, it's obviously not.
A van without enclosure looks like that:
A pickup truck with enclosure looks like this:
One of these allows you to see a three year old standing 60cm in front of your car, the other one doesn't even allow you to see the same kid when it's 3 meters away.
I think he means that the engine, transmission, and frame are the same, not necessarily the body.
Also, I don't think you two really disagree with each other, as his first comment was:
The horrible sightlines of modern pickups is a different issue, and I was actually going to post that same chart in this thread because I was thinking of it too. I will add that the pickup is about the same size as the tank, though, and has a worse view.