Well, it certainly "hauls." I can load up the sides with eight xmart bags, a pizza on the back platform, and still have room in the trunk for rain gear, helmet, tools, sweater, dry shoes and other stuff. I do get noticed. Now that gas prices are once again up over the $3/gal mark, I'm glad I went to bicycle commuting. The pickup truck gets driven only when something is too big to fit on the bike, like this weekend when I needed to get a cubic yard of compost. The bike looked at me and said, "Uh, uh. You're not putting that on me."

Last week I hauled 75 lbs of stoneware clay on the bike.
Oh, and the motorcycle trunk is removeable at the press of a button.