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[–] 135 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Honestly, this should be a ticket. Parked vehicle outside of a parking spot, obstructing traffic, etc.

"Well what else am I supposed to do?"

Use the truck parking spots.

"But they're far away/nonexistent"

Take a cab or otherwise figure it out.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    “Well what else am I supposed to do?”

    Don't care, that is your problem. I have a similar response to people complaining about roads not being increased in size because cars are getting larger. The road was here first, you then decided to buy a larger car. Really it seems like a you problem.

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (32 children)

    I get piled on every time but no one needs a modern pickup. There is a more suitable vehicle for your needs if you are in trades, and a pickup isn't it. Need people space? Same deal.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (27 children)

    What do you suggest for the trades? A van?

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Or an older pickup with equivalent bed space and no weight wasted on a second row of passenger seats.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Okay how old? We talking pre 2008? Because anything before that are pigs on fuel, perform significantly worse, and lack of basic saftey features.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Do you have any numbers to attach to those claims?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Efficiency has improved over the decades despite the trucks getting larger: https://carbuzz.com/ford-improved-f-150-fuel-economy-five-decades/ you'll also see how the old inefficient engines had less power than the new more efficient ones.

    Electronic Stability Program became mandatory in the US in 2012 and the EU in 2014. I've driven a '05 Grand Cherokee that didn't have it (or even traction control if I remember correctly), though German cars mostly started getting it in late 90s or early 00s. ESP can be an absolute godsend in the winter because unlike your right foot, it can control each wheel's brakes individually to prevent skids.

    It's not just trucks, all vehicles have gotten safer and more efficient over time because of regulations that have forced manufacturers to adopt new technologies. I've never heard anyone question this before, as it's so widely known.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    D’uh. Vans are more lockable, there’s more space, you can just walk straight into them, they have much shorter hoods so that more of their length can be for storage than for just being long for the sake of it, and they are way more modifiable than people think. A work van is still body-on-frame so they’re perfectly capable towing vehicles to boot.

    Trucks do one thing better, and that is having a bed that can be removed/taken up for more useful things like fifth-wheel hookups and towing rigs. I guess you can also maybe put a single haybale in there, but actual farmers who aren’t cosplaying don’t move their shit one bale at a time while pretending they’re Ford Tough(TM).

    U-haul rents pickups but there’s a reason you never really see them. Why would I go through all that trouble and cost and not at least get the van?

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    [–] 33 points 5 months ago (26 children)

    Not for long

    These will be pretty rare in 10 years time if things continue the way they are. That said I’m in a country adopting EVs, so YMMV

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Ah, yes, because EVs can’t be made into giant ugly trucks

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    gahh, every time I see a Hummer EV, I think people can't get stupider

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I learned recently that the stated target demographic for the original hummer was "people who didn't serve in the armed forces, but felt like they should" and it's funnier every time I think of it. They knew their market SO well, and I'd been wondering for years "who the hell is this for?"

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    10 years? The longer Operation Epstein Fury drags on, these guys will be struggling to gas up in months.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Yeah, they will get even heavier so you will never see a road without craters in it

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Yeah nah as time goes by it’ll go the other way. Batteries will get lighter as tech improves.

    The argument going on about this reminds me of what my grandmother told me about the horse to car transition. Pretty much all the same stuff, including how big they were in comparison to a horse.

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    [–] 28 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I suggest vehicle length and width limits for parking lots. Parking fines for those who exceed them, and make the fines bigger the more the vehicle exceeds it.

    At least where I live, vehicle technical data is publicly available by license plate, so it'd be trivial to implement too. The Europark guys will literally stand around and wait for your parking clock to expire if you stay for 2 minutes too long, how about they do something more useful instead.

    Either it'll make people reconsider driving these large beasts in the city, or the owners of the parking lots get extra revenue. Either way at least it'll cost the giant truck owners money.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly, requiring a separate license for larger vehicles would probably be more effective. It's already pretty common to have separate licenses for different classes of vehicles.

    Make it require a more rigorous driving test, and maybe more expensive too. We should probably also outlaw consumer vehicles with such shit visibility anyway, but that's a different issue.

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    [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    Honestly, even if we ignore how obscenely selfish and un-neighborly this guy is being, even if we assume he only cares about himself and his emotional support vehicle...shouldn't that make him worry about that truck getting hit by someone driving by? How many times is he going to lose his truck's bumper because he parks it with the nose sticking halfway through the travel lane?

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I bet that paint scratches easily

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    No women has ever orgasmed in that family.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    At some point “bigger truck” just becomes “public infrastructure stress test with cupholders.”

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    With gas prices, they're screwed...

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Diesel probably gets 1200km +- 200km per full tank approx 120L tank size. So 240$ cad for a full tank. It's still nothing compared to the new imports using turbo 4s and having to put in premium. Because of the NOx reduction legislation.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I absolutely hate these people parking in garages. I'm sorry but that shit is just absolutely unnecessary.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Time to make zig zag stiles for parking garages. Narrow turn opening in fence

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    This, but in traffic unsafely blocking my left line of sight so I can't safely do anything until they take their sweet time trying to go.

    ...At least during a turn I can "use" them as protected cover.

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