I and other professionals disagree. There's absolutely a thing we may call information overload. Whether done on purpose or not when pertinent information is included with other unimportant data it's less likely to be understood, absorbed, and utilized. In the long run you're correct but in the short term it's more harmful then helpful.
Or you could have been reading the thread on mobile and not have seen the part with his truck in it and not known?
Speaking of not pertinent data to helping the original poster; are both of your posts after someone else tried to give more useful information? ***.