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In the US, 75% of truck owners tow only once a year or less. Nearly 70% of them go off-road once a year or less. Additionally, 35% of truck owners haul something in their truck beds once a year or less
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Emotional Support Truck
Still only carries 1 person.
Emotional Support Cowboy Outfit.
For when you are too fierce for the chaps there is the F-150.
Replace the bluejeans with a codpiece, and you’re going somewhere.
Taking your golf bag to the course counts as hauling now?
I was about to say: if a trunk would fulfill the same purpose, the bed is not useful: then it’s just a less protected trunk.
So I assume correcting for that, this stat would also be >70%
Everytime someone tells me they need a pick up truck for work purposes, I always think no, 95% of the time you are far better of getting a van. Who wants their tools and materials getting rained on the back of a bed? Vans are also usually lower and easier to load. The fact you can’t see into the back of the van can also prevent theives.
In the rurals, we had need of a truck. Of course, it was an old beat up GM, and as a boy I got in trouble when I tossed a log of firewood into the bed of a shiny new ES truck (bigger than the GM) and missed, damaging its otherwise pristine body finish, which I’d later learn was costly to repair.
It informed how I would eventually compute I, a suburban kid, was too unfamiliar with strange rural conventions for heavy labor.
“No, not the nice pick 'em up truck! That’s the one I use to go line dancing and pick up cousin dates, dammit!”
Fantastic. I’m going to start using this term.
Or if you’re like my neighbor you live in a town house and never tow anything and never use the bed for anything.
I have 4 acres of land and I tow my mower down to my land every weekend to clean up. So I use my truck all the time for towing and I also haul things at least once a month. Not all truck owners do it just for the truck. If I didn’t need a truck I wouldn’t own one.
Are you the neighbor? Weird spot to defend yourself, here, unless you were the neighbor in question.
Which is why you aren’t the target of the meme. It’s the city dwellers who never leave the city but have a 2 ton pickup that barely fits in the narrower, low speed lanes in cities and take up 2-4 compact parking spots who are the target.
I haul, tow, go off road more frequently in my Yaris.
Yeah, but that’s a quality car, that doesn’t count.
Just an example of when folks think they need a truck, most often what they really need/want is a fucking trailer hitch.
Excluding childish hotwheel fantasies, of course.
I have a work truck that I beat the hell out of. Go off road and hit 4 wheel drive 3-4 times per week. I haul 1000-1,500 lbs of gear everywhere for around 4 months of the year. I tow daily for 2-3 months of the year and up 1-2 times per month the rest of the time. My cab is full of gear (it’s basically my mobile office).
Guess what I hop into and drive every chance I get? The small SUV I own. It is much easier to drive, park, go shopping in etc. It takes a lot more more effort to drive the larger vehicles.
If I could swing it I would turn my 1/2 ton work truck in for one of those new small trucks. Unfortunately the weight that I am moving is too much for them. So I am stuck with the large truck.
Or a station wagon
Or if they’re a tradesman of some kind, a van
Would have loved one of those sprinter vans when I did field work, used our utility trailer a lot, but something with a small workbench, lighting and conveniently located inverters would have been amazing.
I own a station wagon, a suburban, and previously a truck. When I owned the truck it was full of shit or hauling stuff constantly. I sold it the moment I didn’t need it. The suburban replaced it because I refuse to put my dogs in the bed while towing the boat to go camping. The wagon is a people hauler because it’s payload is too low most of the time.
There are quite a few people in this world who actually use their trucks. I also completely hate seeing people who own trucks but don’t use them.
The estate car is the ideal car for 80% of all drivers, a hatchback is ideal for 15% of all drivers.
Meanwhile europe where you see people with renault twingos do more with their cars.
Heck people carry more on their bicycles that many ever carry on their trucks.
I regurarly carry some tools and some small boxes strapped to the panier rack of my ebike. Lol.
Actually true lol. I see people here with trailer thingies for their bicycles and they carry stuff with it. It probably has the same bed size as the newest “ford f-550 ultra extreme plus carbon dioxide poisoning engine from cruise ship edition”
Imagine riding your bike every day with the trailer attached just for the odd day every other month when you need to carry something. That’s truck brain logic.
okay but I actually do this with my panniers and those suckers add a lot of drag
I get timber/PIR/plasterboard from the builders merchant, and also take that plus garden waste to the tip, 10+ times per year, in a 4 seat car that weighs under 1 tonne.
Anything truly massive, they just deliver it to me.
The day I discovered that a 2.4m 6*2 would fit inside was a very good day.
As was the one I bought roof bars.
And it is because of these people that I have to custom order a poverty spec work truck, because manufacturers will only send dealers 100k “family trucks” with fancy nonsense
man I miss the s-10 form factor. now everything is absurdly huge.
Used to drive a five speed Ranger for work. I loved it.
Horse shit, you want a base Colorado? I’ll get you one 8% off MSRP. I’ll only charge $1000.
I once sat behind a dude in line filling four propane tanks that he put in the back seat of his pickup truck.
Meanwhile I learned I could fit a 100lb propane tank in my sedan.
This is quite dangerous, though I admire the ingenuity.
Not dangerous. See Mythbusters on the topic of exploding LP tanks.
Definitely dangerous. May not explode, sure,
but could displace enough oxygen to cause hypoxia.
Could vent fast enough to cause dangerous overpressure.
Could slide out of the seatbelts not meant to hold that shape and become a wrecking ball in an accident.
Yes it’s dangerous, no it won’t kill you most times you do it.
If the steel bottle somehow instantaneously dissolved, then sure.
I will continue to fly in airplanes assuming that the laws of physics will continue to apply.
Any compressed gas can be dangerous.
I am a fleet manager for a company that solely delivers them. However we know people will do this. It’s your gas, but there is a reason there are many regulations for when gasses are transported. Things can get ugly really fast if anything is not right.
Plastic bags can be dangerous. Better not put them in your back seat.
/s
just don’t get in an accident. ez.
That’s what the seatbelts are for
Lucky me that propane tanks didn’t explode like in video games lol. (Also yes I anchored the tank properly after this photo)
I’m sure that guys a chump. But it might actually be better than having them roll around in the bed.
If you have a pickup you should have either bungee-straps, wratchet-straps or ideally, both.
For sure. You don’t load your truck without making sure things are down tight.
And you gotta gently smack the item and say “That’s not goin anywhere”
Nah. Smack that bitch hard. You gotta make sure it knows it’s not going anywhere.
I wonder how these terms were defined. Off road as in a dirt road or on a beach where any normal vehicle could go? Haul something in the truck bed as in something that an SUV could fit, too? ‘Bout the only thing unique would be towing, that’s usually a truck job. Boat, trailer, whatever.
Modern SUVs can haul most things these days including boats, small utility trailers, and small campers.
My Volvo station wagon is can tow 3000 pounds
Modern SUVs are actually tiny, but look big, as far as I’ve seen here in Sweden. I’ve more then once parked next to a SUV I thought was big, then as I get out of my Volvo V70 I realise it’s very often just a Kia Picanto-esque car which had been raised, given a muffin top and ridiculously big wheels.
A few years ago I got into a friend’s Jeep Grand Cherokee and was amazed that it was the same size inside as my Jetta Wagon. But mine regularly got 40mpg and his got 20mpg
From my north american perspective, SUVs are getting bigger. Full size SUVs like a chevy suburban, toyota highlander, and even hyundai telluride are bigger than many older full sized trucks. The bumper heights are increasing and these SUVs are replacing the family minivan or hatchback to spend most of their lives just getting grocceries.
Over here the “biggest” suvs I regurally see are the size of VW Tiguan. I believe Volvos XC40 and XC60 are pretty popular amongst the richer crowd.
But the most common is probably Kia Sportage. The text book example of a SUV which is engineered to look big, but it’s actually not at all and is overall a very cheap car.
Volvo V70 used to be the most popular car over here, now we’ve all fallen for the SUV scam :(
Depends on the SUV, and trucks can generally haul larger loads. I didn’t want to waste commentary pedantically covering every eventuality, and why I said “usually”.
I own a cast iron pan, but I only bake 15% of the meals I cook in said pan.
I am such a huge disgrace for not needing to utilize my tools every time I cook.
Gonna go microwave something in my cast iron so I can be cool like everyone here.
Your cast iron pan isn’t driving you to use a shitload of extra fuel (electricity or natural gas) in this case, while it hangs on your wall waiting to be used.
But having a giant truck instead of a low-pollution economy car does exactly that. Imagine if you had to lug your cast iron pan on your back everywhere you went. (Say if we were still migratory, as a society.) Then you’d be rethinking your cast-iron pan choices, if lighter options were available.
Emotional support trucks are much like emotional support guns. The only thing they’re supporting (other than facilitating rampage killers and suicides) are emotions.
TBF, because I think about this sort of thing, yes, here in the states, our boys are trained that they have to keep up manly appearances, we worship sports figures and deride intellectual prowess as super-villainy material, and these are issues for which ES Trucks and Guns (and rampage killings) are a symptom.
Theres A difference between a pan lying around in your lockers and a 3t vehicle driving around on public streets and putting people who walk at risk to be run over, because you don’t see shit.
Your usage rate is like literally a hundred times that of the stats listed (assuming they’re true). The vast, vast majority of truck owners would be better off with a regular car and renting a truck from Home Depot, Uhaul, or whatever local business does that sort of thing.
But do you only use your cast iron pan once a year or less?
I’d say about 35% of the time actually.
All while the US actively outlaws small cars.
I would say more like actively discourages small cars by encouraging large vehicles and allowing them lower standards (emissions etc)
But they don’t
But they do, a lot of Kei trucks and cars are banned because they can’t stand up to an accident with a 10,000lb (not an exaggeration) hummer.
I think their joking.
Kei cars have been banned in Massachusetts, Georgia, Maine and New York with restrictions in Alabama and Arkansas.
Not to mention the 25 year delay on new Kei cars
While this sounds very believable, an actual source would be nice. I can’t find any such image on the website to view the sources they may or may not provide
Primary sources? We don’t do that here 🛻🛻🛻
@Zagorath@aussie.zone please consider linking sources.
Not my OC. You’ve got all the information I do.
Yeah, your source is just a website and not the article/page related. Also, the website’s search bar is broken. I couldn’t find anything related, nor simple with it. Such as “car.”
Feeling good about my mid sized truck in the mountain west. Haul weekly, trailer monthly, off road monthly, at least (remote trailhead access)
I don’t know what I couldn’t do which would necessitate one of the huge new full sized trucks, aside from towing construction equipment or line a shit ton of welding gear or live stock. The number of people who do THAT must be microscopic
Towing really. Have more than one quad to transport? Full pickup, one quad in the box and the other in a trailer, or one bike and a camper etc…
