When did a pickup truck become a "rig" ?

[psp8ball]

I've noticed it a lot lately. Especially with western hunting shows/podcasts/etc that everyone refers to their truck as a "rig." Is that the commonly used term now? Or is it a regional term? Or something else?

I'm from Wisconsin, and everyone here still calls it a pickup or a truck. The only time someone uses "rig" is if they are referring to a semi tractor trailer.

If you know the answer, great. Otherwise feel free to chime in with what you call your vehicle.

 

[bowkill02]

It's what yuppy men say to feel macho bahaha

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[Trr15]

Gas engine = pickup/truck, diesel engine = rig? Maybe? Hell if I know.

 

[Jimmy]

I think most people still call a pickup truck a truck. I've never called it a rig, but then again I'm not a very cool guy. I don't even call a good buck a 'stud'.

 

[EastMT]

Eastern Montana it’s an “outfit”.


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[Trr15]

I think most people still call a pickup truck a truck. I've never called it a rig, but then again I'm not a very cool guy. I don't even call a good buck a 'stud'.

I'm willing to bet the brim on your hat is curved like a horseshoe.

 

[Jimmy]

I'm willing to bet the brim on your hats is curved like a horseshoe.

The world isn't flat and neither is my hat.

 

[Trr15]

The world isn't flat and neither is my hat.

Lol. Mine either!

 

[DAOutfitters208]

I heard it referred to as a rig all my life. As well as truck. Maybe its not as common on the east coast or in big cities? I should expand, a jeep, suv, suburban, truck, etc could be called a rig. A car was always a car.

 

[3forks]

Horse drawn wagons were called rigs. It carries over to any vehicle today depending what region of the country you’re in.

In my opinion, a “truck” should refer to a semi. A pickup is what must of us drive and is what a lot people refer to as their “truck”.

 

[sndmn11]

Probably about the same time that "run" became in favor over words like use, wear, carry. @Back Country Hunter 2 has me all confused because he is running some pants, while running a sleeping bag, and running some boots, and running a tripod and just, everything is running in the same sentence.

 

[black dawg]

I heard it referred to as a rig all my life. As well as truck. Maybe its not as common on the east coast or in big cities? I should expand, a jeep, suv, suburban, truck, etc could be called a rig. A car was always a car.

same here

 

[Top147]

when did the rifle become a “rig” or my desktop computer.

 

[generalist]

Regional I bet. Where I'm at if someone asked me "what rig you running?" I'd probably respond with "depends on what I'm fishing for.."

 

[cmahoney]

Long before a gun was a weapon system.


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[dtrkyman]

A friend of mine calls em rigs, he’s from Tennessee and the first time I heard him say it was close to 20 years ago


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[SWOHTR]

Interesting. I’m from WI as well and have always said truck/pickup.

Terms that bother me are “pulled the trigger” and “game changer.”

 

[Btaylor]

Seems like around here a truck is a rig, an SUV is a truck and a car is a waste. And it's da boat. "We kin hook da boat up to my rig so's we dont get stuck, your truck(suv) might not make it."

 

[Huntindog45]

i have always referred to whatever I was driving as my rig.

 

[Trr15]

Interesting. I’m from WI as well and have always said truck/pickup.

Terms that bother me are “pulled the trigger” and “game changer.”

I was about to pull the trigger on a new rig but the conversation with my wife was a game changer.


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