yeah, the only downside i'm not liking with the hauler is the small *** cargo space it has (at least right now for me lol... 16t) doing the hutton orbital CG going on now (yeah that's a load of fun lol... 1.5 hour travel time to it :p and I did it 4 times yesterday!) I eventually am going to upgrade to a T6 I think.
Yah, it's quite tiny, sadly...that's why I chose the Adder as my second ship. I suppose they actually tried to make the Adder look like a space shuttle, but it just looks like an RV to me. ;_; The Hauler looks so nice, especially on the wireframe model.
I was saving up for the Federation Dropship, so I can empathise with the grind--so much money for such a crappy ship, but I like how it looks LOL.
But you played mostly on the Beta then? I remember you said you played quite extensively. If you ever want to wing-up just drop an invite on Steam or such, or can give you the CMDR name also. Due to the instancing, and size of the game-sandbox, it's really almost impossible to run into other people you know purely randomly. :/