Does the rest of the world never need to move around equipment or trailers? In America these are every bit as useful as whatever country your from lol. Most of the time people here use them as daily drivers which is obscene but if it’s a business truck a big diesel can be more than necessary. A gas 4 cyl Tacoma is NOT pulling near half what a 2 ton chassy with a diesel V8 can
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Allero@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Seen one recently. Don’t know how it is in Americas, but for the rest of the world this is unnecessarily, stupidly, obscenely big. It doesn’t fit anywhere, it consumes fuel in barrels, visibility is near zero, the pickup format is extremely impractical for everyday use. This is a climate-churning, people-pressing machine that makes 0 sense.
innermachine@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
When normal people need to move stuff, they attach a trailer to their normal-sized car.
Even the car in the foreground is considered large in my country.
innermachine@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Normal people don’t need to haul over 30k lbs on a regular basis. Businesses sometimes do! These vehicles are not supposed to be daily drivers their supposed to be work horses. A 2 ton diesel chassy is made for hauling big loads, and if you don’t need to haul big loads you don’t need one simple as that! Really the only “regular people” I can fathom owning a rig like that are farmers otherwise they really are only useful in construction and other contracting gigs that require lots of equipment hauling to job sites, or in the case of where I work the need to haul multiple vehicles on a gooseneck at a time.
Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Yes, and businesses have business vehicles with cheaper taxes, which cannot be used privately. Small/solo businesses can be partly exempted from this.
The size of that thing is completely ridiculous and would be a major nuisance/hazard, to drive around in a city
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Yes the rest of the world needs to move around equipment and trailers. And they can do it without obscene trucks like this lol.
What makes America so incompetent that they need a truck like this to do it?
innermachine@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Right so what do they use in the rest of the world to tow a skid steer + equipment or multi car good neck haulers or anything in that 30k+ lb payload? A gas 4 cyl Tacoma isn’t going to cut it. Neither will a V8 or V8 half ton truck. Do they just hire out tractors to do that kind of payload hauling? At work we somewhat regularly have to pull 20+k lbs so we have a big crew cab long box cummings to haul shit like that. Thing is a country mile long but it stays in its parking spot unless it’s getting a trailer hooked to it. If that seems excessive what vehicle do you recommend it gets replaced with? And don’t limit yourself to us mkt I’m genuinely curious !
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
You’re listing specific examples that literally no one has a problem with. Yes, if you’re moving large equipment you need a large tool to do so. The general public doesn’t do this, like… Ever. The dude in the photo has almost certainly never towed anything with it. These kinds of vehicles serve a purpose, but the vast majority of them are sold to people who will NEVER use it for that purpose, who just take up excess room in lots and on the streets, rolling around with visibility that makes a fucking TANK look like it’s got a clear line of sight.
There’s a whole host of political and cultural reasons that these vehicles are as popular as they are. Almost none of it is actual, practical requirement. No one cares about the worker using the tool to do a job, we’re pissed at the pavement princesses who drive around like they own the place without doing an honest day’s work in their lives. Hope that cleared some of the confusion up.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Anything too big for an SUV typically goes on a transport designed to haul large loads. Goose necks for pick up trucks are mostly a north american thing.
The example you bring up also mentions how that truck is just for work, which isn’t really the problem. The problem is when the boss decides to drive that massive truck everywhere because his ego is so big he thinks hes needs the truck to go anywhere.
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I saw a lifted oversized pickup in my town in the UK. It was hilarious. Like this one it was long, way bigger than those big Fords which are becoming more common here. And lifted. It also made a big brrr noise.
JayJay@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Id say the pickup is just fine. Its these borderline semi trucks that are not. Ill take an old nissan or toyota truck any day and it’ll do what i need it for. This is just a “big” dick truck.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 days ago
this looks like the micropenis ones, small bed by a massive 4 door front.
mattyroses@lemmy.today 6 days ago
in almost all cases, a van is a better working vehicle
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 days ago
have had my taco for 18 years and parts availability is starting to be an egg hunt, but i aint trashing it just yet. ive done as much or more work with mini me, than any coca cola cowboy
Zink@programming.dev 6 days ago
All of those things are true in the US. It is just somehow culturally acceptable here that a third of the cars commuting to the office or stopping at the grocery store are giant trucks that should be commercial vehicles.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 days ago
this one looks lifted too.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
There’s only one reason for having this truck: micropenis compensation.
PagPag@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Eh, unless you need to haul heavy equipment. Damn, Lemmy is worst than Reddit when it comes to these things.
Not sure if it’s mostly kids or just naive adults.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Not just Americans haul large things, yet you don’t see these monstrosities in Asia, Africa, South America or Europe. Don’t know about Australia, never been there. Other countries just use lorries of any size. Americans use these micropenis compensators for shopping carts. Also, in the 80’s and 90’s pickup trucks were much smaller yet the bed size wasn’t much different. So why have it this enormous when there’s no benifit to it, other than an ego boost? It’s just so fucking dumb.
Right back at ya mate.
PagPag@lemmy.world 5 days ago
lol k
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yeah the real point is that the vehicle you haul your dirt bikes in and the vehicle you park at the airport are ideally different, but it’s very understandable that they aren’t. Also I’m certain that truck isn’t backed in all the way. It’s stupid big, but not 2x longer than the space big.
PagPag@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yeah. I think inconsiderate usage of them are the bigger problem…
Also, people that have these trucks, never use them to haul shit, lift them up and put low profile large rims on…deserve every bit of hate.
Driving them around unloaded is a terrible experience. The suspension is designed with a minimum load in mind. Without this preload the whole thing is significantly over-sprung and a terrible ride.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
A bunch of people have these in my apartment building, I assure you they never haul anything except maybe 3 cases of eater bottles. People are morons buying these as daily drivers to the office.