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.
"What, do you expect society to accommodate your special needs vehicle? You some kind of woke commie?"
Exactly.
Just because your vehicle doesn't fit in parking bays doesn't mean you can just park anywhere you like.
“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.
yeah, it's too big for the spot
simple
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.
My favorite thing to do with my prius is pass a bunch of empty new pickups while my 2012 prius is loaded with a full roof rack, bike rack, and 4 passengers
Even worse they COULD make trucks that do everything new trucks do without being so huge. Kei trucks would do most of what people use American trucks for.
Hell, American trucks used to do everything modern ones do at half the size.
What do you suggest for the trades? A van?
9/10 trades on site aren't hauling anything to the job.
Or an older pickup with equivalent bed space and no weight wasted on a second row of passenger seats.
Yes, obviously, but they are already making pick up trucks that have a sealable bed. They also have pick ups that have a raised construction on the bed with a roof. Next step is a double door on the rear and they will just be vans again.
Yes, that is what they all use here because its just better. A roof keeps your tools dry and if someone wants to steal it they need to break in rather than just grabbing it.
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?
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.
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.
Vehicle over 2 tons? New license tier, restrictions on where it can park, and put a speed limiter in them capping it at 70mph.
Over 4 tons? New tier that requires the previous tier as well, more strict parking restrictions, speed limiter to 60mph.
Not to mention I'd say vehicle size as well as weight should factor in too.
I feel like speed limiters might cause a bunch of difficult-to-predict issues. But increased penalties for moving violations in higher size/weight tiers would probably be atleast as effective.
I've had a ticket for not fully parking in the bay before, this should more than qualify
No women has ever orgasmed in that family.
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
I feel like that is happening because people were made aware of the energy security side of running your car on electricity rather than imported fuel. I'm not convinced that will happen in America
Yeah they’re a major producer, plus the influence from the car lobby there is insane.
Also the tax incentives
So those exist in the US too? That’s a problem in Australia as well, tradies getting tax rebates on huge RAMS and F500000s
Ah, yes, because EVs can’t be made into giant ugly trucks
gahh, every time I see a Hummer EV, I think people can't get stupider
Me too.
And then I see a Cybertruck
10 years? The longer Operation Epstein Fury drags on, these guys will be struggling to gas up in months.
Yeah, they will get even heavier so you will never see a road without craters in it
At some point “bigger truck” just becomes “public infrastructure stress test with cupholders.”
Pretty sure that point already passed
The one silver lining in gas being $5 a gallon is these jackasses have to pay out the nose to drive this ego on wheels.
It's obscene.
Antisocial behavior
That pickup is civil war grade stuff.
I bet that paint scratches easily
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?
With gas prices, they're screwed...
Time to make zig zag stiles for parking garages.
I absolutely hate these people parking in garages. I'm sorry but that shit is just absolutely unnecessary.
We have one of these that parks just on the other side of the gate to get into the parking deck at work and makes it tricky to drive past sometimes.
I also live in the middle of, let’s just call them salt of the earth people, and these pavement princesses are fucking everywhere. I’d kill for a train that goes by my office so I could just get on and not think about the 30 min it takes to drive there.
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