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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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The communist Justin Trudeau wants to tax carbon 😡

But I need this vehicle to buy groceries 😡😡

AX THE TAX 😡😡😡

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No ground clearance on van, gona get stuck in the mud. less payload on van, can't just drop a skid of what ever or extra long things like hydraulic cylinders into a van with out akward fucking around. less tow capacity on van, notice the tow bar on the back... What are you gona put a welder, diesel cans, gas cans, pales of hydraulic oil for equipment/ slip tanks, pumps and what not into the van too with the occupants? What about the greasy and oily ass clothes. Throw em in the van too? So they stain and fill the cab with VOCs?

This is a purpose built one off, and alot of you are out of touch with how work gets done. Not evey job is hauling standard 8x4 drywall. Alot more trades work than just slinging plaster around.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is totally a male enhancement device due to the lift and frame length. It's weak in the frame and real regular off-road use will crack it.

    It's a fucking joke just like the joke that drives it. "Look at me! I'm such a tough manly manchild. My beard is huge and I listen to country music even though I've never owned a cow and live in the suburbs."

    Real working 4x4/dually trucks tend to be factory height (little higher than factory rear wheel) as you don't want to lift heavy shit higher than you have to. They're also beat to hell because they do real work.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess you also didn't notice the tow bar in the back. Huh. Trucks tend to sit high. So when you load them the truck levels out. Instead of squatting down in the rear. Also I don't know if this truck is a legit tow truck but if it is, say you had a family of 5 or 6 are on a road trip in your grand caravan. Get into an accident with a dumb shit wild deer/fucking phesant/ windigo w/e or brake down cause budy guy at the last gas station was dumping a bit to much home brew corn gas in the tanks. A regular tow truck fits only 4 people. Plus driver. So now you got to wait for another veichle. Out there shits so remote that could be 30 min or 2hrs depending on the stretch of road. Now you got this pigfugly monster. Your Pacifica/oddesy/Siena is on the hook. You and your family are all in the warm cab and no one is freezing. Because it's January. Yeah I forgot to mention it January in Alberta -30ºC

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Most male enahncement devices have towing crap on them so they can tow a boat or a camper once or twice a year. It also makes the manchild feel like a big boy.

    Lifted and that long means it absolutely isn't a real truck. It's a stupid toy.

    Again, real trucks are also beat up as they're tools, not toys.

    I grew up working on a farm, I've been around industrial trucking my whole life since then. This isn't a truck, it's a toy owned by a boy with a masculinity inferiority complex.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bud, how can you not tell that that is not a ball hitch or pintle hitch? It's tow stinger, Mr. Farm. Also, the attitude of beat-up trucks is long gone. Turns out you can get more customers and sales when you don't show up looking like Harry and Marv.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This one of my trucks, it's a 98 chevy 3500.

    I'd post another pic of my 98 ranger with mud, carry rack and towing hitch as well as my play farm but Lemmy isn't taking it right now and i have shit to do.

    That asshole isn't driving a real truck otherwise he wouldn't be taking up four spaces like that in the middle of the parking lot. He'd be parked in tne back row like not an asshole.

    The frame is too long to be a real truck. He spent over $100k to have people that actually work for a living to build it for him.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Comments like this are so ridiculous. Do you really think nothing ever gets build in Europe because people use vans and buses instead of emotional support vehicles? Canada is just another country, not fucking Mars

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Didn't you get the memo, Canada is often colder than the martian equator. 95 percent of the canadian population lives in greater toronto, the lower mainland of BC, and a couple other cities. The other 4 million people live in an area almost as big as russia.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Vehicles like this one are fairly common in the Alberta oil industry areas, and while they are overbuilt, they're driving on roads that are worse than the ones through the old Bundeswehr training areas around Munster...if you took a Volkswagen transporter to a job site there, first you'd rip off the exhaust system, quickly followed by snagging the suspension components on something.

    Here's a picture taken of an oilfield truck from Montana. (Sorry for the r link.)

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hey dipshit there are only 4 places in the world that have oil sands. Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Venezuela. So ther is no need for shit like this in Europe. Also the natural resource exploration pales in comparison to the rest of the world. Because Europe imports most of their natural resources from places that use "emotional support veichles". Also in europe, more often then not your job site isn't going to be 500km+ away from your origin. I've been in a many vans, fuck if I'm going to sit in a cramped ass tin can for 8hrs listening to road noise on an uncomfortable ass captains chair. When I can just sit in my lazy boy recliner in a quiet cab where I don't have to yell to talk to guy beside me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay, I don't want to get into the entire thing why exploiting oil sands is clearly not a necessity and maybe a pretty terrible idea. I agree Europe imports way too many fossil fuels. But switching to alternatives with less reliance on others is clearly a more sustainable strategy.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh I agree there. Fuck the oil sands, garbage low quality oil that takes a massive toll on the environment, a low quality oil incomparison to other types. Cost way to much to extract. And costs way to much to refine. Hell i think there is only like one refinery in the states that even has the ability to refine that garbage. If gasoline sold for 1.10 per L or less, there would be no profits.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    You seriously going to tell me this thing was "purpose-built" for anything more than luxury for the occupants? There are vastly more efficient ways to accomplish anything this thing can do, the only difference is that there's a tiny bit less legroom. Literally every single one of those things can be accomplished with a modified/lifted van and maybe a trailer.

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