Your Truck is Stupid Big
18h 9m ago by lemmy.radio/u/sanitation in mildlyinfuriating from lemmy.radio
You don't fit. Go to your own garage. You are several feet too long.
Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3oadt/your_truck_is_stupid_big/
Fuck these big ass trucks, should be illegal!
They should reduce the height on parking garages to exclude them.
They have a steel beam barrier at 6'2" at the entrance to my hospital parking and some broski rams into it every week.
Why does he keep coming back?
It feels so good when he stops.
Micropenis treatments.
Agreed, but that's probably an issue for fire safety. There's probably some regulation that mandates a minimum height.
And some vans designed for transporting people with wheelchairs/powerchairs could be blocked out.
And vans in general, they've only gotten taller and taller in recent years. Many look like a good gust of wind'd knock them over.
That was actually a problem with briefly-very-popular conversion vans.
I dunno, I've met parking garages I couldn't safely walk through at a modest 6'5"
Because of newer fire codes that required retrofitting sprinklers.
Just let the air out of the tires so they dont have to worry about scraping.
Also I have a tiny old but tall van, it’s exactly 15 feet long and narrower than most modern compact cars, but it’s over 6 ft tall. It does fit in most parking decks, and never sticks out of the spot.
Vans are the real vehicle for trades. You can fit way more gear, it's all locked up and weather protected, and the vehicle footprint is still smaller.
There is almost nothing a pickup truck does better than a van when it comes to work vegicles for the trades.
I really think driving these things around should only be legal for work purposes.
The loophole is many who own their own trades business still drive them for personal uses because they can't afford (don't want) another car.
If only the people who drove them for legitimate work purposes owned them, even as their only vehicle, it would be a huge number off the roads.
They're only common because of tax laws. Everyone else in the world uses box vans for most “work” purposes, and if not box vans, the same frame with something else in the back. Pickup trucks have their uses but they're worse than vans for most trades.
For my field pickup trucks are the way to go, but we often have to go off road to reach a site.
That said this truck is still too large. While we may need the extended bed for additionally equipment storage, the front and basically porfile/height could still be reduced significantly. It's a huge issue with modern truck design
If function were a priority at all for pickup trucks they would have stubby sloped noses like Sprinter vans have. But no, they need to have massively elongated and elevated hoods because the vast, overwhelming majority are sold exclusively as penis prosthetics.
It's comical how empty the engine bay is under those stupid hoods. On Rams with the V6 I can literally stand on the ground in between the radiator and the front end of the engine and still have room to move around.
Don't I know it. Most of my male family members have been tradespeople and all but one chose/chooses a van over a pickup truck.
Yes very specifically had one modified to fit the height of loading docks with a hydraulic gate, to move heavy ass things and a crew of workers, maybe in some cases another vehicle would make sense but we had to get equipment to some pretty remote places as well. Of course one of our employees took it home everyday to do burnouts or whatever. To a certain extent cops are more lenient to a commercial vehicle.
If they used a functional and efficient (and way less expensive) van instead of a pickup for their trade, the ownership and fuel savings would more than pay for a reasonable car to use as a car.
They should require a commercial license, have hardware speed limiters, be restricted to only the right lane of the highway, and require biannual safety inspections. You want to cosplay as a trucker, you get to live by trucker rules.
Don't forget obligated resting times!
It's wild to remember this joke was from 1998, yet I can swear trucks have gotten even bigger since then. I remember most pickup trucks having a compromise between cab space and bed space. My brother's first truck had two seats in the front and two side seats squished behind it - that is, it was such a small space that the seats faced inwards from the wall and we had to fold our legs so our knees went up. It was actually pretty fun to sit back there, I had a friend who'd ask him specifically to drive us places because she loved that feature.
But nowadays it seems most pickup trucks (that I see, in the US) gave up on making that compromise, like the truck in the post image. Full cab in front like it's trying to be a family sedan, then a long-ass bed that makes the thing stick out pretty much anywhere it parks.
I'd say "pick a lane," but with the size of these things, I don't have high hopes.
I miss my old four cylinder Tacoma sometimes but my mini van is so much more practical. I have a trailer and hitch when I need to haul something I don’t want in the van. I looked at Tacomas again a few years ago and was floored at how big they were, I swear they are the size the full size tundras used to be.
A while back, i watched my friend help another friends mom into his truck in an icy parking lot- by using the Tommy gate as an elevator to get her the 2.5' up to the other trucks door.
TBF, at least both actually use their trucks for work. Tommy gate is a stone mason and thw other guy I regularly see hauling trees to plant for landscaping.
Top of the line in utility sports, Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
Prophetic lmao
I've seen an increase in these dumb trucks in my small European city. Every single one in pristine condition, so you know the pricks don't use them for work. A few stood out with expectedly dumb details. One had a license plate a la "I love USA", and another had a sticker "0800-EAT-SHIT". I'm pissed EU doesn't have the balls to ban them altogether.
Interesting how giant stupid trucks attract douchebags world wide.
See, that right there.
I used to have a massive F-550, but it was so beat up and had the connections to make use of that towing capacity.
Most of these trucks have never been off the pavement and never hauled more than groceries.
Also, an F-250 now is the size of my F-550 in the 90s.
I've counted. In my area of Canada less than 3% of pickups that I see are being used as anything other than a commuter car at any given time.
These insecure dumbasses define their worth by the size of their truck. The things are just $100,000 fashion accessories. Emotional support vehicles.
I need to figure out some way to plausibly scratch these things with deniability. Maybe an umbrella with a metal tip sticking out of my bag. Whoops, sorry, couldn't be helped, total accident.
Perhaps a simple trip/stumble while holding a handful of sharp metal objects that happen to make contact as you reach out to prevent a full fall, clumsy me…
Tungsten carbide tips on the umbrella.
I think they're banned in the UK. Too big for the roads in a city that was built for horses.
I think that it's going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:
"Speeding. No one thinks big of you."
It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.
In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps "The bigger the trick, the smaller the ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.
Edit: Removed stray period.
Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.
Here in Australia, a ram 1500 nearly hit me on my bike by going the wrong way around a roundabout too. They didn't even slow down to check.
I slammed my brake and swerved.
If they can't even successfully navigate a right hand turn on a roundabout, they shouldn't be here. And the drivers park and drive them at a lower standard, instead of higher too
And the IGA near me is full of large utes during lunch hours using 2-3 parking spots each.
The two utes?
Excuse me, uh did you say yutes?
Yeah your honor the two yutes.
Uh, what is a yute?
Oh excuse me your honor - two youTHs.
Also, I actually drive a Jeep Unlimited (which is actually a fairly big car). And yet, never had an issue fitting into any of these spots. I've literally seen though ute drivers who pull into a spot badly, and not even try to fix the issue. Considering buying some stickers to throw on their windscreen.
Only a cuck, drives a truck.
Something like that?
Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don't care about other people very much.
But these people get off on being jerks. There's something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn't work right.
Speeding. No one thinks big of you.
The automatic linking feature breaks with a URL ending in a period.
Thank you, fixed.
I don't think that will work. The comparison has been made but doesn't seem to phase people. I think IED might be only the solution, since the people who drive these don't seem to care in the least that they are a lethal danger to everyone in a smaller vehicle/on a bike/pedestrian.
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.
Did you mean: Speeding. No one thinks big of you.?
I think you wanted that second period.
Not sure what you mean. When I click the link on my post, it goes to where I intended. Note that I removed an errant period at the end of the URL about an hour ago.
Edit: Well this is getting weird. I tested it three times, now it goes to a redirect page that does require the period.
Edit: I think I nailed it third time around.
my aunt used to seek out parking garages that either were proactive at ticketing vehicles that were sticking way out like that, or had a lowered roof at the front to prevent larger vehicles in the first place. She said she was surprised that they existed but said it made actually navigating it so much easier.
I can defo understand that, it's hard enough parking as it is, and thats without a vehicle taking up half the roadway as well.
It's really bad where I live, in Seattle. The vast, vast majority of parking spots are compact (even the ones not labeled as such). And you've got these and giant SUVs making it hard to park and, even moreso, get in and out of a regular car.
Remember when Hummer came out with a consumer SUV back in the early 90s? I remember thinking they were gigantic and too big for the roads/parking spots. Quick search tells me the wheel base was 130inches (3.3m or 10.8ft). Here it is completely in a parking spot.
A modern F250 supercab with an 8-foot bed is 175.9in (4.5m / 14.7ft). A 6.75-foot bed, the wheelbase is 147.8in (3.75m / 12.3ft). I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer...
I can't help but think the H1 is fucking cool. They're not that long but they are W I D E.
Leg room is shit in the humvee if you’re tall but they’re beefy bois that can crawl through damn near anything.
Damn, I'm tall
Would cost an absolute fortune to fill with gas these days lol
It's diesel.
Life-Pro-Tip: Just reverse-power a diesel generator to produce diesel with your own solar energy.
I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer...
I wish there was a size max for cars where even the hummer would not be allowed on the road. Cars like pickup trucks and SUV's increase danger for others. It would be better if there was more public transportation and less cars, and the only cars out there are just plain cars and vans for delivery / mechanic services etc. Because why should other people have a higher risk of dying just because someone has a micropenis?
"Normal" SUVs are something like 70% more likely to kill the pedestrian in a collision with one that cars like sedans.
SUVs are anti-social cars.
IMHO, it's a great example that The Law isn't really done to protect common people that those things are allowed on the road when they're actually unecessary (unlike, say, delivery vans) and almost twice as deadly for other people than normal cars.
why should other people have a higher risk of dying just because someone has a micropenis?
Always has been. These days this just also enables "normal people" with micropenis to endanger their fellow citizens.
But micropenises basically, in all of history, sent other people to their deaths. Be it war, starvation, random generic atrocities, you name it.
I feel micropenis is a metaphor for something else here.
I remember when they first came out, someone tried to take an H2 down this narrow one way brick road with high curbs in our town, and managed to wedge himself in between the curbs completely stuck, threatening to shed his sideways if he went forward of backwards
LoL nice I would have just stood there and laughed at that loser
then it catered to SOCCER mom types, which were made absurdly large.
The actual HMMWV is actually a pretty cool and reasonable vehicle for medium utility tasks and off roading. What the Hummer became and what passes for consumer light trucks is ridiculous.
It's an old geezer's car compared to a stadium super truck, if they were street legal...
emotional support truck
Gender affirming truck.
Truck Nutz are literally gender-affirming prosthetics for trans-gendered trucks.
And these assholes usually the first to whine about how expensive gas is.
you would too if you needed a mortgage to fill up the car
My neighbour used to park his truck sticking way out like that, but it wasn't all the way back in the spot.
I left a note on it saying: "It's not as big as you think it is, you have to put it all the way in."
From then on it was parked properly.
I too would retell that anecdote at every opportunity.
Only silver lining of gas going to is including these guys are paying even more to drive that ugly pos. Not worth everything else going up in price, though.
(I think that's f250 according to the side, but a 6.7 diesel? $7.50 is the rate for diesel around here and it's got something like 13 to 14mpg real world stats so lol.)
Seen one recently. Don't know how it is in Americas, but for the rest of the world this is unnecessarily, stupidly, obscenely big. It doesn't fit anywhere, it consumes fuel in barrels, visibility is near zero, the pickup format is extremely impractical for everyday use. This is a climate-churning, people-pressing machine that makes 0 sense.
There's only one reason for having this truck: micropenis compensation.
Id say the pickup is just fine. Its these borderline semi trucks that are not. Ill take an old nissan or toyota truck any day and it'll do what i need it for. This is just a "big" dick truck.
in almost all cases, a van is a better working vehicle
have had my taco for 18 years and parts availability is starting to be an egg hunt, but i aint trashing it just yet. ive done as much or more work with mini me, than any coca cola cowboy
this looks like the micropenis ones, small bed by a massive 4 door front.
I saw a lifted oversized pickup in my town in the UK. It was hilarious. Like this one it was long, way bigger than those big Fords which are becoming more common here. And lifted. It also made a big brrr noise.
this one looks lifted too.
Does the rest of the world never need to move around equipment or trailers? In America these are every bit as useful as whatever country your from lol. Most of the time people here use them as daily drivers which is obscene but if it's a business truck a big diesel can be more than necessary. A gas 4 cyl Tacoma is NOT pulling near half what a 2 ton chassy with a diesel V8 can
When normal people need to move stuff, they attach a trailer to their normal-sized car.
Even the car in the foreground is considered large in my country.
Normal people don't need to haul over 30k lbs on a regular basis. Businesses sometimes do! These vehicles are not supposed to be daily drivers their supposed to be work horses. A 2 ton diesel chassy is made for hauling big loads, and if you don't need to haul big loads you don't need one simple as that! Really the only "regular people" I can fathom owning a rig like that are farmers otherwise they really are only useful in construction and other contracting gigs that require lots of equipment hauling to job sites, or in the case of where I work the need to haul multiple vehicles on a gooseneck at a time.
Yes, and businesses have business vehicles with cheaper taxes, which cannot be used privately. Small/solo businesses can be partly exempted from this.
The size of that thing is completely ridiculous and would be a major nuisance/hazard, to drive around in a city
Yes the rest of the world needs to move around equipment and trailers. And they can do it without obscene trucks like this lol.
What makes America so incompetent that they need a truck like this to do it?
Right so what do they use in the rest of the world to tow a skid steer + equipment or multi car good neck haulers or anything in that 30k+ lb payload? A gas 4 cyl Tacoma isn't going to cut it. Neither will a V8 or V8 half ton truck. Do they just hire out tractors to do that kind of payload hauling? At work we somewhat regularly have to pull 20+k lbs so we have a big crew cab long box cummings to haul shit like that. Thing is a country mile long but it stays in its parking spot unless it's getting a trailer hooked to it. If that seems excessive what vehicle do you recommend it gets replaced with? And don't limit yourself to us mkt I'm genuinely curious !
You're listing specific examples that literally no one has a problem with. Yes, if you're moving large equipment you need a large tool to do so. The general public doesn't do this, like... Ever. The dude in the photo has almost certainly never towed anything with it. These kinds of vehicles serve a purpose, but the vast majority of them are sold to people who will NEVER use it for that purpose, who just take up excess room in lots and on the streets, rolling around with visibility that makes a fucking TANK look like it's got a clear line of sight.
There's a whole host of political and cultural reasons that these vehicles are as popular as they are. Almost none of it is actual, practical requirement. No one cares about the worker using the tool to do a job, we're pissed at the pavement princesses who drive around like they own the place without doing an honest day's work in their lives. Hope that cleared some of the confusion up.
Fair enough. There isn't much more frustrating than going to the regional transfer station in my little 5 speed hatch back and throwing out a load of trash every bit as large as the 3/4 ton big boy toy next to me LOL. For what it's worth at least in my state anything over 10k lbs has a significantly higher annual tax rate and their paying for their stupidity with 6$ a gal diesel rn. I just felt as though some were bashing trucks like these for existing as if there isn't legitimate use cases for them, although if I had to hazzard a guess maybe 1/3 of units sold actually get used for anything a civic couldn't fulfil and thsts probably being generous.
Anything too big for an SUV typically goes on a transport designed to haul large loads. Goose necks for pick up trucks are mostly a north american thing.
The example you bring up also mentions how that truck is just for work, which isn't really the problem. The problem is when the boss decides to drive that massive truck everywhere because his ego is so big he thinks hes needs the truck to go anywhere.
No kidding! Do contractors in your country own their own equipment or is that a more common thing in USA? We have equipment rental places in the USA but I feel like any business that uses machines regularly ends up owning them. Feel like it would be weird to own equipment and have no way of transporting it LOL
I'm in Canada so I'm very familiar with contractors owning goose necks and large trucks, it just doesn't work like that everywhere in the world. The more remote/small the community, the more it makes sense for small owner/operators to be able to haul their own equipment.
But how else is he supposed to convince himself he's not an insecure, emotionally stunted man-child?!
If he buys a longer truck, then maybe his dad will hug him just once.
Cybertruck
When I see people with clean, big, unused trucks, I always give them this hand signal: 
Wag your index finger, and it looks like their small limp dick, blowing in the wind. You get double points if you look them in the eyes. They usually get the message. Be careful, though. I've gotten into a few fights over just that hand sign.
I'd definitely reserve it for those pissers who ride your ass or park like assholes, but get ready for a fight.
extra points for snipping off that little end where air gets put into the tire off.
them big tires is expensive, and odds are half their paycheck or more goes towards the car payment.
(obviously this must be done without them present)
That's one way to say you don't understand how tires work
Sure the tires are expensive, but replacing a valve stem is only going to cost maybe about $50, if you call around a little you might even find somewhere that will do it for like $20.
Now if it's not just a stem and has a tire pressure monitor, that gets a little pricey, that might be over $100. Most of those aren't just a rubber stem but made out of metal, so not as easy to just "snip." But usually it can still be replaced with a plain stem as long as they're willing to ignore the light on their dash.
And they fucking insist on parking in the front of places. You can drive a piece of shit like that but you can’t walk from the back of the lot? Lazy little dick.
What is even the point of these, from what i seen the truck bed does not seem that much bigger if at all then a normal pickup truck?
Cosplaying as a "real worker".
The bed is like the truck balls, it's only there for manly affirmation, but really serves no practical purpose.
They store the vehicle's pee and warn the other drivers?
Do...you think balls store pee?
I agree in 90 percent of cases but I have one with a fucked up bed and it's only six months old. I use it every other day to do deliveries.
Big diesel crew cab rigs are for towing trailers while hauling a crew. Think land scaping, construction etc.not too useful for the average joe using it as a Honda civic but for the right business they are exactly what you need.
Even then, most companies would be better off running 2 trucks and sets of equipment rather than 1 big truck hauling everyone and everything. It would cost a bit more than one big truck but significantly improve operational flexibility.
normally youd get more torque because its a bigger engine but this dudes truck in the city so theres actually no point but the point is so you can pull stuff out of mud or tow your tractor or somthin on your farm
They also can never find their signals and are by far the most aggressive drivers on the road.
One of the few moments where I'm glad gas is insanely pricey.
Well bully for you cuz it's a diesel rig and that's even MORE expensive 😂
Trucks are driven by trades people.
They have the luxury of passing the cost of things like gas on to the customer by simply raising their price.
Costs $22 worth of gas just to start it up
Don't worry, they are crying at the gas station.
Nah they brag about it. I'm not even joking. Had a dude say it the other day. And I'm in Cali.
It's a 6.7l diesel guy is getting probably better fuel economy than that Honda crv. I know my cummins does better my 4 cylinder toyota.
There should be an oversized vehicle parking area in the most inconvenient section of the garage, and if your vehicle is too big, you have to go park there.
Another reason why I like the European vehicle weight and speed restrictions, especially with a damn trailer. If the gross weight of a vehicle is over 3.5 metric tons (7700 lbs) you are limited to 80 km/h (50 mph). Depending on the version and/or the load, your Ford F-250 is in the right lane with the rest of the trucks and trailers. Any sort of modifications, like raising the damn truck, requires a thorough technical inspection.
The US government classifies it as 8 tanks.
But it’s classed as a motorcycle for fuel consumption requirements.
And a small business for tax purposes.
A non passenger vehicle is likely whats its designated as. Or a "light truck".
Poor sand into the gas tank
Buttermilk into the cabin air intake at the bottom of the windshield. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
These stupid vehicles and ones that are noisy for the sake of being noisy have one root element: attention. They're designed to force you to pay attention to the owner. Admittedly it's for negative attention, but still it's a cry for help.
Too many people grow up where the only attention they can get is negative. Since humans crave any attention, they'll seek it any way they know how. We'd rather get positive attention, but if you don't have a source or tools to get it you'll go negative in desperation.
I hate that these vehicles are designed to hurt people and they're often on the road because the owner doesn't know how to get attention any other way.
Clearly a Penis Compensation Device.
Remember kids, the owner of the parking lot is not responsible for any damage or theft. Something that big is just a damage magnet, and that's just accidents.
Remember that when your car gets hit.
Lol. That's not even big compared to some of the ones around here. The thing has a moderate leveling kit to give it more ground clearance. Douche nozzles around here easily stick on 6 inch leveling kits. Heck, I've seen guys take F-650s or comparable, and turn them into pickups.
I don't get it.
I have newer honda pilot, and that thing is a boat. I only like it because kids + hockey means I need a fair bit of storage space, and it's great in snow. I drove a Mazda 3 before kids, and was plenty happy in that.
People only need trucks of they do truck stuff like hauling or towing. But you don't need something that sticks out that far.
You can haul or tow pretty well with a van. Unless you need a hookup for a goose neck... But those are rare, even for truck bros.
Maintaining my own home and garden justifies the continued use of my 98 pickup, plus I'm "the friend with a truck", but it's not my daily car and I dread the day I have to replace it. Contemplating an EV conversion kit if it can manage the same loads.
Reddit links though?
Even equipped with the longer bed there’s just no way that’s backed in all the way.
The wheels look disproportionally small.... Like a big bellied guy with small legs
Now if you all could see the uncut picture you probably would see that he's got something in the back of the truck provably preventing him from backing up. This truck also is a base model work package. Steel rims steel bumper, white.... could it be possible it's a contractor forced to work in some shit hole condominium? Or is loading/ unloading something at that moment? Yall a fucking bunch of stupid. The good stupid you mind.
That moment when you close reddit because the All feed was meh, to see the same post here too
trucks that big should only ever be sold to verified farmers and licensed contractors
Stop hating the plebes
Where are the pictures of the predator elite classes' private jets?
Y not both? Plenty of hate, enough for plebes and elites
Seems like a hateful way to exist, doesnt advance any causes and just makes lots of people dislike you
But you do you
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
do you think saying "f reddit and f spez" its moving the needle in "f-ing spez"?
or does bringing reddit content to lemmy and attrackting more lemmy users is moving the needle in fucking spez?
IDGAF. My comments will continue when I see a connection.
You’re preaching to the wrong crowd.
car racism why :(
car brain why :(
why big car bad :(
Literally poking out into where traffic is supposed to be? Gets in the way? Wastes more gas just cuz big=“cool” (big != cool). Has same size truck bed/towing capacity as Japanese trucks literally half the size
Besides other reasons mentioned cars like this have a much higher chance of causing casualties when they're involved in accidents. Driving those things is harmful to the environment and everyone around you.
They're actively raising fuel prices (by driving up demand), destroying roads, fucking up the environment and cause 61 traffic fatalities a year on average (according to the IIHS).
What's not to love?
"racism" fucking lmao
I mean, it is really big and looks like it's in the way, although I wonder if it's also parked wrong.
Maybe the owner needs a large pickup, but relatively few owners of large pickups do. For the rest it's conspicuous consumption, which is always gross, and in cars seems to correlate with antisocial behavior.
What?
Just a troll
Car racism, that term made me smile. :)
On a related topic, most cars today are white, gray or black. Other colors are rare. Its said to be because people think those colors are elegant. I just think they are boring for cars...