• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Just a heads up, farmers used to drive small trucks. They are easier to load and unload. How often do you use the bed of your big truck? It must be a pain in the ass. (If you don’t use the bed, you don’t need a truck. There are other vehicles with the horsepower that don’t have a ton of dead space in the rear.)

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      2 months ago

      to be fair, depending on the kind of trailers they’re hauling a truck might still be the best available option

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      2 months ago

      Horsepower isn’t all that matters. Torque and the ability of the frame and transmission to tow matter, too. If your response is “van”, check the gas mileage between a van and comparable truck. Vans tend to have worse gas mileage due to a higher frontal cross section. That gives them worse highway mileage.

      Just let workers choose what they need. By all means, make fun of the people who use their oversized trucks to go to Starbucks and back.

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        2 months ago

        For sure, all that matters. I was just pointing out that some people like to say an oversized truck is the only thing that can tow, which is not true at all, and comes with many drawbacks. Personally, I’d love for us to get back to small trucks, but you literally can’t but them anymore.

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          2 months ago

          Well there’s only one country that needs big “trucks” so I guess their farming technique is wildly different and inferior.