Emotional support truck, blocking the sidewalk, sticking out into the road and with an empty driveway infront of it.
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I know this is !fuckcars@lemmy.world but I really hate driving these modern trucks. The hood is too high, the windshield is too narrow, and the height is too high. You really can’t tell how close something. It’s really dangerous.
On top of all that the assholes that drives these things have the brightest lights in the world. That shouldn’t be allowed in the city.
Absolutely. Had to drive pickups at work and was constantly competing to get the old, beat up, smaller truck because it was just so much more practical to load and unload.
The target market here is so sensitive about their masculinity that they’ve actually sabotaged the practical use of these vehicles.
All my neighbors have trucks. I rarely see them use the truck bed. The truck bed is already shortened to make room for a back seat. On top that they all have crossover tool boxes. That take another 25% of room on the bed.
They basically perfected their target marketing.
On top that they all have crossover tool boxes. That take another 25% of room on the bed.
People have families and don’t want to have multiple vehicles, and what would you prefer in this case? Someone’s tools loose in the bed just so YOU can see it’s used, or for someone to just take them? Most of these boxes also allow sheet good under them, you’re not limiting much. People don’t need to justify their vehicle to you, but you sure seem to want to judge people for them.
But of course this information doesn’t fit your bias.
I’d prefer if they didn’t drive at all—they make great cargo bikes nowadays that can fit multiple passengers, and of course mass transit has no passenger limit. But if that’s not an option, they make vehicles that are designed for carrying large numbers of passengers. They’re not pickups though.
Still, I want to point out that it’s relatively few families these days that have more than 2 kids. If you absolutely need a car then one compact car or hatchback works great. No need for these behemoths—except for ego.
Those trucks kill more people than any other vehicle and they pollute the environment. Drivers of these vehicles are more likely to have their high beams in city traffic and they are more likely to remove their air filter so black smoke comes out of their exhaust.
Horrible people with fragile egos.
The portion of people that have these vehicles and fit the very narrow use case that it specifically satisfies is observably very small. People that don’t need a truck often can rent one. As mentioned by others, many of these trucks aren’t particularly good at what they were ostensibly built for. As my grandfather might have said, “those are just for sellin’”.
Judgement is fair, partly because these trucks only exist because of the scam legal definition of “light” trucks, partly due to the climate impact, but most immediately because of how dangerous they are to everyone else.
Man I have one of these as I tow a 16k lb trailer weekly and I fucking hate the thing. I wish I could get a Isuzu two door cab over with the same specs. Even though the Isuzu isn’t small it’s the smallest thing I could see getting where you can see shit. Also it cost just at as much as one of these support vehicles but without a bed. 😥
As another guy who drives pickups at work. I hate them as well. They have shit visibility, are difficult to park, handle like a tank, and the bed is difficult to get in and out of.
They design them now as toys, not work vehicles.
I saw one of those small japanese trucks in real life. Hopefully with enough imports truck companies will make smaller models.
Their attitude tends to be more on the side of begging governments to ban or heavily tax their competitors, that way the “free market” can decide which trucks consumers want.
Fortnine has an excellent video about this issue.
I read this as Fortnite. I was really confused…
I never heard of this channel before. I’m going to subscribe.
Thank you for the video. Really informative and well edited.
The hood slants up?! Wtf…
Canada and Mexico are two countries that have identical vehicles, but opposite trends.
It’s the drivers that are the different factor, but people don’t want to accept they are the problem, so they blame anything else they can. Like in this case the size of a vehicle, maybe it’s who you’re allowing behind the wheel and the road laws… nah… it’s the vehicles surely, but let’s not look at Canada or Mexico.
FYI, Fortnine is based in Canada.
Increases or decreases in the frequency of pedestrian-driver fatalities is affected by lots of things, although I suggest that poor road design and traffic laws might have a positive feedback effect when combined with limited forward visibility (e.g. a truck with poor forward visibility isn’t a huge liability in Canadian road designs might be a larger liability in typical US road designs).
Unfortunately I don’t know if we collect the right accident statistics. Perhaps the more relevant question is: are pickup trucks over-represented in pedestrian fatalities as a result of vehicle collision compared to other vehicles, and has that representation grown as truck grill heights have grown? I found a doc on Canadian pedestrian fatalities, but it classified all passenger vehicles as a single class – and unfortunately that doesn’t tell us much since most 4-wheel pickups are classified as passenger vehicles.
Canada and Mexico have declining rates and the exact same vehicles, it’s not the vehicles, but people don’t want to take accountability for their actions, so they blame something.
Supporting data from The Economist:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/09/05/what-to-do-about-americas-killer-cars
I had to drive a truck recently, (needed to rent a vehicle, and they only had pickups left.) It was a chevrolet Colorado, which I understand to be one of the smaller trucks available in North America, and I was so happy to get rid of it at the end of the trip. It was fine on the highway, but in the city it was just incredibly awkward. Cumbersome handling, blind spots for days…I constantly felt like I was going to hit something.
I can’t even imagine how clueless you’d be about your immediate surroundings in a monstrosity like what’s pictured here.
It’s got a full bed too, so they can carry the 5 sheets of plywood they’ll need to remodel in 3 years
And it’s lifted so they can pick up those sheets of plywood at that Home Depot that is on top of a rocky mountain with no road to it.
It conveniently has a number you can spam
Be a shame if a bunch of people called and complained. It would be terrible if you could zoom in on the rear passenger window and see their phone number
Hmm my first thought is that it might be the owner’s truck.
Yeah, that is probably the case. I’m sure his company isn’t online for review
AKA Gender affirming truck.
Big truck makes me feel like smol girl >:(
Fuck that shit, climb over it on the pathway as destructively as possible
Haven’t seen anyone mention the fact that their landscape is shit
The website is really top notch, too.
Between the truck and the yard, I wouldn’t call them for any job.
As others have pointed out, that’s no work truck, and that yard is bleak.©2035? 😂
Why would you assume it’s their yard? More than likely they are visiting a client, there doesn’t look to be street parking, and some people don’t want you parking on their driveway.
This really looks like a contractor trying to fit off the street and driveway and managing the best they can to meet a potential client.
Better than grass wasting hella water.
In most places, blocking the sidewalk like that is illegal
Probably is there too but good luck getting anyone to fine them for it
So we complain about women getting a penis but this guy can’t get one? They can. Probably cheaper.
the feminine urge to knife those tires
Oh that would be illegal. Simply deflating them doesn’t cause damage and achieves the same effect.
Unless they don’t notice and drive off and the tire explodes and they hurt a totally innocent bystander.
Maybe don’t vandalize people’s shit, even if they’re dicks, that makes you a bigger dick in almost all situations. An adult wouldn’t seek revenge. The fuck is wrong with people?
Not adult enough you need to take your emotions out on other peoples stuff? Come on.
I agree, would also like to point out, if someone vandalized the tires, how is the driver to know it was because of how they parked? 🤔
Ah yes, luckily ethics is what the law says :)) /s
the effect is not the same either, you can just get a pump and refill the tires instead of needing to change them
At least this truck might be used occasionally for its purpose even if it’s raised height only would make the job harder.
Sticking out into the roadway because they would have trouble fitting between it and the other car to get in the door is a huge asshole move.
This truck and 95% of others like it are tax loophole trucks: https://www.inc.com/dan-furman/the-suv-tax-deduction-loopholeis-alive-well-but-its-not-what-you-think-it-is.html
In fact, if you Google “tax loophole truck,” the first result I get is a dealership.
I call them compensators.
Their size is inversely proportional to the capacity of the user’s head.
Some are big enough to replace both.
I don’t pretend to know what professional landscape contractors need for their job.
I’m all for f*ck cars but people who have actual jobs that involve moving stuff like gravel and sod probably have different needs than I do, I assume?
I agree a truck might be useful to a contractor, but not that truck. It’s lifted to an unusable height, and those rims are all flash, no function.
“Pavement Princess”
It depends on the use case, though. If that driver’s main concern is getting in and out of muddy work sites safely, maybe carrying cargo is less important than 4WD cred.
That would be a pretty poor off-roader too. Lifting a truck can be helpful for ground clearance, but that much is just vanity. Instead of hitting the bumper or the frame, you’d just hit the diff, etc. and you’ve moved the centre of gravity up so much, tipping over is a concern. And once again, those rims aren’t functional and will get mud everywhere and make things worse.
I think a significant part of this problem is that, from what we can see in the photo, they 100% should have pulled forward so that they didn’t entirely block the sidewalk. Someone coming through there on a wheelchair or with a stroller would have a real bad time. It also looks like it’s out in the road a little, which is very inconsiderate as well.
Yeah I’m not excusing the driver parking it like a jackass.
People moving gravel and sod aren’t driving lifted trucks. The lift makes the bed higher and significantly harder to load and unload.
It looks like a show truck to me. A real landscaper’s truck is FILTHY and beat up all to hell because it gets used to do actual work.
This looks like the truck the guy who drives around giving estimates drives.
A real landscaper’s truck would also not lifted to ridiculous heights because there is no reason to and it makes using the bed a pain in the ass.
That is a pickup truck that will never pick up and haul anything.
Classic “work truck”. In Canada that decal gets you deductions for Gas and oil, repairs, maintenance, insurance, loan interest, leasing costs, capital cost, parking, and licence and registration fees.
They would not be using that truck for starters…
There’s no way this truck has ever carried bulk gravel or dirt in its box, or anything that would have scratched the paint.
I assume they dont need to park on the walkway for their job
This is a huge hazard for guys like me.
Points to his pony tail
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