Most (not all) ham club type guys have no clue about what you would want out of a mobile radio for trail comms. Many of them sit in a hut and talk all day, and the radio gadgetry is all they focus on or care about. Digital is great for them, they are in a fixed position on an ideally positioned and tuned antenna with ample power and are easily overkill for anything they want to talk to in the nearest 50-100 miles. Even on their mobiles, they run around town no more than 5 miles from a repeater. They are not worried about actual "mobile" use because it's not something they do much (and frankly no one here does it that much either despite being set up for it.....I know I don't because I only have 1 friend I run with semi regularly that has ham....)
Now I'm not knocking them, I've chatted with guys like this on my commute. They are super friendly and on occasion quite interesting characters. But they have a different perspective on how they use a radio than someone looking at it as a tool for the traveling off road vehicle in a remote place.
For a vehicle radio, you just want the darn thing to work, and work with the radio of whoever you travel with. You want to just set it to a channel and leave it, you don't want to have to fiddle with it much while driving, and when you do stop to use it, you just want it to tune a repeater easily.
I have a Kenwood TM-D710GA. Yes it cost too much, and yes it's overkill. It's the best APRS rig you can get, as it was made for APRS with input from the guy who invented APRS. If you don't care about APRS, it's of no use to you. In my opinion, it's a darn good radio and I wouldn't trade you 2 Yaesu's for it. It does not do digital voice at all. APRS is the only "digital" communicating it does natively. But it will run as an APRS tracker all by itself and leave you a whole analog radio half to talk on.
I don't know much about digital. I know I don't really want it because I have a hard enough time getting anyone to share a single radio service let alone a common digital mode. I know Yaesu has it's own flavor, Fusion I think, then there is the more generically adopted DMR, and a few others used enough to be considered common, like D-star.
Ham is a hobby, and there are many aspects of it I enjoy as a hobby. (I'm a big fan of APRS) But as a useful tool, I have not been impressed with ham radio. It's wonderful if I find someone else who uses it to travel with, but that is rare.
My recommendation would be get your Technician license ASAP (go for General if you like, I'm a General, never used HF once though...) and get you a HT. I like a Baofeng, some don't, but if you study over it, program it, and listen on it and learn it, you can run about anything, it will only get easier from there. You'll want an HT no matter what you put in the truck so no money lost. The more you play with it and talk to the locals, understand how radio works, you'll get a better idea what mobile you need.
I will make this jab at ham though, because I see people using "emergency use" as a reason for ham. It's not. If you want emergency comms, get a Garmin inReach. Ham radio is for people who would rather tinker around for an hour than actually get help. I can think of no emergency situation where my first thought is let me see if I can reach someone on ham...... Even if it's not a real emergency, an inReach can set up reliable comms with a contact of your choice to help coordinate assistance. As long as you know someone who will reliably check their texts, you are good. You can tinker on ham while you wait on that person to get going. And of course, if it is a real emergency, you can get emergency services moving within minutes and 2-way comms with someone who's job is to sit there and watch for your message.
