Clearly designed by someone who hasn’t used a pickup truck to it’s real potential. Image
Lawyer here: I concur!
Submitted 2 months ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
[deleted]87Six@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
not one of the weird oversize impractical monstrosities that so many people seem to swoon over these days
I heard a real kicker recently. It was something like
My truck looks like it shouldn’t be able to haul it but it can. Yours like it should be able to but can’t.
Best instagram roast of a modern truck guy I’ve ever seen.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve got some big ass American iron too, but it’s old and actually worth a shit. Never understood lifts you need and ladder for, and 3’ beds. Totally worthless vanity boosters.
Trucks are for doing shit, not hauling your sorry ass to the grocery store.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
final destination vibes
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I had a giant metal ladder fall off of the top of a work van and come right at my windshield while I was driving to my own wedding. i barely braked in time, but it had some serious Final Destination vibes. All things considered, I still think that the scariest thing that day was the final bill for the wedding.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I strap my shit good. This is pre-tie down. Plus I was just going a couple blocks in town.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought the roof was attached to the truck and it was like a mobile hangout
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Chicken coop.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Make a little birdhouse in your truck
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wanted to get one of those tiny grandpa trucks when they were going for like $4k new, but apparently they’re illegal everywhere in the US. We’re stuck with $60k “entry level” monster trucks.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re illegal in some places, but I think they’re mostly fine. The deal is you can’t import a foreign made car unless it’s more than 25 years old, so the poor American car companies don’t have to compete.
The real scam is the importers get 'em in Japan for a couple hundred bucks at auction, haul 'em over here and sell 'em for 8k plus. They’re pretty rad, but parts can be kind of a bitch.
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ceci n’est pas une truck
zeejoo@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Et les “kei trucks”? N’est-ce pas un truck?
j4yc33@piefed.social 2 months ago
Non, ce sont longues autos. /s
ddplf@szmer.info 2 months ago
OMG I love this Korpiklaani song!!!
Smaagi@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That thing looks like a contraption I built in besiege or some game like that
Nycto@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Cool! But I’m struggling with the title of the article. This cab truck was the most single ever? There were other cab trucks that were single, but this one was the most single of them all? Am I misreading this somehow, or is that title just weird?
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Single cab trucks prioritize cargo space over seating space, generally having only a single bench seat that fits 2 adults and a child, or three often uncomfortable adults. This truck prioritizes cargo space to a much greater degree, having only a single seat, so it’s aggressively “single cab”.
Mountainaire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is so wild!!!
hakase@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It may be because a large enough load could quickly block the driver’s left-side mirror.
Oooh, another thing is that a heavy enough load may imbalance the vehicle enough to make it unsafe on turns.
Anyone see anything else?
chocrates@piefed.world 2 months ago
Yeah, nom uniform suspension or adaptive suspension might be important.
Probably not a good idea for 70 miles per hour but it might be a kick ass farm truck
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That was my first thought. Either the load will make it uneven, or the lack of load will. Also, very weird wind resistence at speed.
But fine at low speed
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Large enough load would escape when braking. No wall up front. Add one and visibility goes to shit.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Heavy enough people? Take a 300lb person in the front and a 200lb person in the back and you’re gonna have a bad time making a quick turn
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
My first thought was weight distribution, but I imagine there’s suspension technology these days to account for that.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Wouldn’t wind resistance be a problem that higher speeds?
Like with 30km/h, it probably doesn’t matter but 90km/h? Idk.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 months ago
With a big enough load, the driver’s entire left-side visibility could be blocked.
pigup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A enough load would block the entire left window. the driver would be unable to see to their left.
kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Xerxos@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Probably bad aerodynamic. Don’t they use something like that on the airport? Since they don’t drive far, aerodynamics are probably not that important.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I’d imagine if you’re transporting long, heavy things, you wouldn’t want to drive too fast anyway.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Depends on what you consider too fast, is driving the speed limit outside of a town “too fast”?
deacon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those aren’t used for transport, they are mobile conveyors for loading things into the belly.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
You joke but this is basically what a vintage British Bus looks like, except the non-cab side is for the Engine.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 months ago
rotkehle@feddit.org 2 months ago
there’s one parked in my street and for sale. it brings up a smile every time I walk by.
davetortoise@reddthat.com 2 months ago
It would “work”, but it would be aerodynamically unstable so would be limited to low speeds (<~25mph). This is why this configuration is quite common in construction/industry site machinery, where high speeds are unnecessary and unsafe.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
But why not make the windscreen the width of the vehicle, maybe wrap it around a bit. Should be similar in aerodynamics?
davetortoise@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Sure! But at that point you might as well just have a minivan with the seats folded down or removed
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You could put spoilers on it.
laranis@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Because the steering wheel is on the wrong side.
Source: 'Merica!
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
That’s one of the few things where the US actually follows most of the world!
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 months ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if they start putting them in the middle
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It also looks like it’s a Kei car. We don’t do smart things like that here.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used to work at a furniture factory and we got all our steel delivered in a truck with this configuration. 8m and 10m lengths on the shortest possible wheelbase. No backseat though.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Cybertruck designer here: Just had a huge whipper, some dishwasher style metal pannels, and we can sell these babies for 200k.
ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I’ve already preordered
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I bought it before Elon went crazy btw
Gormadt@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Looks very similar to our yard mules
Beautifully dorky
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One issue for a vehicle allowed in traffic is that ypu typically can’t have things sticking too far out of the vehicle in any direction lest someone drives into them. Thus long haulage is put on long beds, even when not very heavy.
Advantages of long beds is also that you can better secure your load along the length, can use standardised vehicles and parts, as well as have an easier time with load balancing and view management.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
Aksually If you hang a red flag off of it. It becomes legal.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The drivetrain doesn’t have a place to live. The nose of a truck holds the guts, freeing up space for load in the other half. Moving the guts to a cab-over would shrink the available engine size. Having all the power train to one side would require entirely new engineering to have 2 double length axles with no counter spinning force, so torque on the frame would twist the chassis up at the far point like a lever.
Or it would be underpowered to prevent it, effectively a kei truck engine in a full sized truck body. It is going to work much harder in some way to be as successful as existing trucks.
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
the first-gen honda acty this drawing is obviously based on had its boxer-four under the bed. i don’t see why that wouldn’t work here.
saxrussell@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Don’t you hate it when you have a genius idea, only to find out someone else thought of it long ago? Nice try, Einstein. Back to the sandbox.
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
soo … a tiny yarddog?
mlg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As someone else already mentioned, these do exist but you don’t see them on the road because it usually easier to just get a bigger truck.
sketchyenchantment@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
1960 DeKalb Lumberjack
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
istdaslol@feddit.org 2 months ago
Would be perfekt for jousting, if it wasn’t a drawing
Trex202@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It could probably hold 3-4 pallets, if it wasn’t a drawing
nullspace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can get this functionality by driving a hatchback and putting the passenger seat down. Those cars fit way more than you would think.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In a collision, you are much safer if you are facing backwards because your spine aligns with the back of the seat instead of you rag-dolling forwards. So turn those seats around, too. The design is very human.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If this appeals to you then check out the Telo truck
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Another case where vans are the superior utility vehicle: strap your long stuff onto your roof rack.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I would fucking by the real version of that.
conditions:
No more than one computer.
Rolling chassis frame with a hitch.
Left hand drive.
Good HVAC with front and rear vents.
Physical controls for everything, giant central screen, no cellular.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A port made entirely of air? Who do you think I am, some kind of idiot?!
bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, it’s Japanese so the port side is on the right.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Introducing the new Apple AirPort
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Sometimes you come up with a genius idea only to realize you’ve reinvented the train.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Honestly take these as wins. Clearly it was a good idea.
… or just pulled the idea from subconscious memory…
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought I invented the word “tragicomedy”
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Adam Something, is that you?
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Convergent evolution
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 2 months ago
How do you move the planes around if the entire tarmac is filled with these? Seems a little impractical.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
you will notice the tires that enable movement;)
deacon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you are thinking of belt loaders, which have a long flat bed on them.
Except, BAM - it’s not a flat bed, it’s a moving conveyor belt that is raised to carry the bags and cargo from those carts into the plane.
Unless you’re thinking of something else. But I think you’re thinking of something like this:
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TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Or, it’s a self unloading flat bed ;)
picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah I was thinking if the OP has never seen the airport and these vehicles.
In addition to that belt loader, there are a plethora of different kind of half-cockpit vehicles there. Ofc its easier there as these likely dont need to be registered for road use.
I’ve seen so many different types and makes.
mech@feddit.org 2 months ago
Hmm, makes sense.
You’d need a long bed to transport the planes.