The government is taking aim at big SUVs and trucks.
    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      I am probably going to break down and get truck again. Most uses people give are bs. A tarp and car will let you haul 90% of what you want. Chicken, dog, cat, pig feed. Car is fine. All of those animals too (though 300 lb pot belly pushes the limits).

      If you stick it out the back of the trunk you can haul long lumber. You can load a surprising amount of rocks and concrete too.

      You are probably loading and unloading appliances that often. Or furniture.

      If it wasn’t for the travel trailer I would suffer through it, but its the straw that broke the cammals back. Renting is just such a pain in the dick too. I would rather have a piece of junk desiel that I am tinkering with the schedule a day to pick up a truck to race around trying to use it before I run out time.

      If I need to clear brush. I just want to go do it. If I need rocks I just to get a load. Friend or family moving I can just bring the truck.

      Don’t get me wrong I hate a lot of the truck out there. I don’t need a new house worth of truck to move junk around.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        16 days ago

        I just want a god damn little single cab S10 style truck with a full size bed. I don’t need passenger space, I don’t need crazy ground clearance, I don’t need huge tires. I need room for furniture and lumber that my 5’3 ass can get in and out of without having to climb. Bonus points if it’s electric. And no a Maverick is not just as good.

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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          2 days ago

          My literal dream. I’ve actually been looking at Edison Motors retrofit kit for hybrid diesel electric to try and revive a junker rather then selling two kidneys for the down payment on a truck I couldn’t afford to get scratched.

      • Elkenders@feddit.uk
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        16 days ago

        Maybe the size of the country has an impact. Does the average person need to buy a lot of animal feed?

          • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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            16 days ago

            Farmers owning a truck makes sense (although I hate how blocky and dangerous the hoods are), but what about all the tech bros and finance bros who drive giant pickups? I swear half of the men who work white collar jobs and live in the suburbs drive giant pickups and SUVs these days

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I swear the number of car-brained people who have told me (when discussing a pedestrian or child death in a car):

    Well what were they doing in the road???

    Why the FUCK does it matter what they were doing in the road. I don’t care where the parents were. I don’t care what they were doing there. There is no excuse, I don’t care if it’s the freaking freeway, if you see someone you stop. But these people can’t even see over their hoods so they have no clue there’s even someone there, so they’ve shifted all blame to the other person. It couldn’t be my fault, it must be there’s!

    Fuck I’m so mad at them, and the auto industry is also to blame for promoting that way of thinking. "If you’re in an auto accident, your family will be safe. Just fuck those other people right?)

    It’s America’s selfishness, just blatantly on display.