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If you're only going to haul small loads, why do you want a truck?
If you're going to haul heavy loads (or pull a substantial trailer weight), then you will not be able to maintain road speeds going up hills. (Of course this may not matter in most of Texas.) Even my 4-cyl Toyota has trouble maintaining highway speeds up a 6% or better grade when heavily loaded.
All told, I think the optimum solution is to have a high-mpg car for most driving, and a reasonable mpg truck that you use only for hauling, or when you're going on roads where you need ground clearance and/or 4WD. '80s Toyotas are reasonably priced, get halfway decent mpg, will haul about as much as you can put in them, and last pretty much forever.
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