Again, you can absolutely carry those things in a van, but if you don't want to do that you can just hitch a bed to something else. There are billions of people in territories where pickup trucks are not commonplace, I promise you we move those things around just fine.
It's not even a superiority thing, the presumably American OP said he didn't want a pickup but thought he didn't have alternatives, I mentioned vans.
It's not like anybody outside the... pickupsphere? ever felt superior about driving around in a van. I promise you there isn't a bunch of people buying Kangoos and Ford Transits as a status symbol.
I sometimes don't know how to not appear to be feeling superior when talking to Americans. If driving around on a rickety cheap van with holes on the floor now counts as a show of arrogance against people driving cars that need ladders to climb inside I don't know what level of humility is adequate here. Should I just praise baseball or something? Embrace pounds and ounces? I have a measuring tape that lists inches, if that helps.
Ya, I said I have a van in my very first comment. But that's my choice for my purposes. I'm not trying to tripple down on "why don't people select my preferred vehicle shape!?"
Haha. Alight bruv, naw, you were out here on some other evangelical tip. Talking bout "have you heard about our lord and savior, van?". Writing essays and posting videos like mfers never heard of a transit before. Get off it already, people know vans exist. Lol.