Emotional support truck, blocking the sidewalk, sticking out into the road and with an empty driveway infront of it.

  • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
    952·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
      511·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
        163·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          335·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
            233·
            3 months ago

            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.

          • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
            141·
            3 months ago

            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.

          • brianary@startrek.websiteEnglish
            51·
            3 months ago

            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.

      • Sentient_Modem@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        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. 😥

    • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        I saw one of those small japanese trucks in real life. Hopefully with enough imports truck companies will make smaller models.

        • FireRetardant@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          3 months ago

          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.

      • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
        171·
        3 months ago

        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…

        • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          29·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.worldEnglish
            111·
            3 months ago

            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.

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        3 months ago

        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.

    • eatCasserole@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    471·
    3 months ago

    It’s got a full bed too, so they can carry the 5 sheets of plywood they’ll need to remodel in 3 years

    • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    3 months ago

    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

    • RuBisCO@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • etenil@programming.devEnglish
      74·
      3 months ago

      Oh that would be illegal. Simply deflating them doesn’t cause damage and achieves the same effect.

      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        148·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          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? 🤔

      • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        14·
        3 months ago

        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

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    3 months ago

    So we complain about women getting a penis but this guy can’t get one? They can. Probably cheaper.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    I call them compensators.

    Their size is inversely proportional to the capacity of the user’s head.

    Some are big enough to replace both.

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Hello, police? Yes I’d like to anonymously report a dangerous road obstruction.