Not to bust anyone’s bubble, but you can thank the EPA and their MPG guidelines for all these stupidly huge trucks. Why we can't have small trucks
73There's this dude on YouTube called oats Jenkins and makes better versions of things, he made a "traffic 2" video and in it he said something along the lines of "oh and you will need a permission ticket for a pickup added to your driving licence if you want one, so that only people who need a pickup truck can have one"
This is absolutely genius in my opinion, and I saw these big ass pickups spreading into europe, and like where I live (pretty small far away town of which there's a ton of in Europe) they would take up somewhere to 3/4 to the full damn road (I saw someone drive one and it really went like that those things are as big as a bus)
41I really love the design aesthetics of older trucks. They were uniquely cozy in their own kind of way. I wish you could buy new small sized utilitarian trucks, but literally nobody in the industry sells them anymore because the consumer keeps buying these behemoth trucks and so luxury has become the standard when it should have only encompassed a small portion of the truck market share.
33Aaaaaaah yes, the pavement princess. Drive like they own the streets, but never done a day's work in their lives
28Frat boy house mate from Brooklyn in college had a dualie. Completely unnecessary for where he lived (home or at school). Dad was a biz kid, he was a biz kid...
I asked him one day "what'r ya haulin'?"
I am no longer friends with this man.
27So I've used huge stupid trucks for work a lot. Bush work. So shitty roads in the middle of nowhere, heavy loads.
Here is what I've learned:
The beds are undersized proportionate to their size, so it's pretty common to put canopies on them, which raises the center of gravity even further than it already is (which is pretty goddamn high). Rollovers are common, and loading the things is in itself hazardous. I've loaded a lot of shit in and out of these things, and had a bunch of close calls. It's a long way to fall, and you're more likely to fall than in a shorter vehicle.
The build quality is overall pretty bad, so the pillars are huge. Stupid large, which creates really big blindspots where there just don't need to be.
These trucks aren't really designed to go off road, so things like traction control tend to really get in the way. That whole system is built off of ABS (which doesn't work in situations where your traction is limited), and this will effectively kill your power when your tires start to spin. You have to override the default settings of these trucks to get them to work as advertised. It will make you stuck when you don't need to be.
The high hood is dumb. You have to look far ahead to maintain safety, because the blind spot in front of your truck is huge. Do you know what happens when you're on a steep climb around sharp corners? You straight up can't see. The only safe way to go is to get out of the truck and drive from memory. It's legit fucking stupid.
The blind spots in the rear of the truck is enormous. I've driven trucks with empty beds where I can see out the rear view mirror, and I've driven trucks with canopies that cover up the rear window. There's basically no difference in visibility.
26I to sometimes feel like I am cosplaying as a man too. I'm not trans, it's just about being an "adult" whatever that means. But I am just a mushy little whiny thing inside of a robust outer shell.
8I love comments criticizing trucks from Lemmy users who haven’t seen sunshine or touched grass in a year.
Do any kind of outdoor activity, maintain a property or mild home renovation on the regular with your sedans and we’ll see how long it takes before they look beat to shit or have mechanical issues.
7Anyone remember light pickups? I had one of the last Nissan hardbody trucks, and I loved that darned thing. I abused the heck out of it and it lasted forever. There's nothing really like it now. Supposedly the rebooted Toyota Stout will be in this range, but I suspect it won't really be the same kind of truck.
7Favorite truck I ever owned was an early 80s Silverado. 8' bed, cloth bench seat, power/computerized nothing. Simple, functional, throw some bricks and sticks in the back without a second thought of scratches and dents...
Fancy crap on a truck is just that much more to go wrong, but I'm sure it makes you real comfy.
7As I mentioned on another thread, I'm trying to reduce my car dependency by walking and cycling more often but I do intend to buy "one more" car; preferably a 80s/90s Toyota pickup but a Land Cruiser 80 series is also in the cards.
6When I was riding, I had a Chevy S10 and a fold-up trailer that I could haul up to 4 motorcycles with, looked like the small truck on the left.
I can't even imagine trying yo use one of today's trucks to accomplish the same thing. It would be a nightmare.
These things are marketed to carry people and stuff, and they're bad at both.
4Serious question: are people actually posting on Tumblr enough for us to make memes?
4Oh man I saw a pair of tiny trucks like those at the junkyard made. Made me sad, they were gutted for parts.
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