Parking like this for your benefit

It really depends on WHERE you park if you are going to park this way. Parking it in the boonies, way way out at the end of the parking lot? Saintly.

Parking it as close to the entrance as possible? Dungeon. 1000 years dungeon.

But generally I agree. This is the purpose of a truck. To haul heavy items that would not fit in a standard or small vehicle. But don't buy a fucking truck for status or for your office job.

Yeah, God forbid he wants to actually take stuff home.

That said, if you've got a huge truck (and I live in the country and work blue collar so I get it, sometimes you need one), have a small car too. Trucks aren't cheap, you can afford a Civic for the city.

For shopping at Trader Joe's while they're trying to dissolve the NLRB, yes, also the truck thing

IKEA started as a furniture shipping company (thus the flat packages and the warehouse aesthetic) and many furniture companies like IKEA still ship to your doorstep or beyond often for a similar or better price compared to what individual transport costs.

But they're not only driving to Ikea. They're on our roads and streets and pedestrians and cyclists.

You think this is just his ikea vehicle?

That’s why they have loading areas. Park your land yacht way in the back of the lot or on the street until you’re ready to put your flat pack couch in it.

Yea you're right they should buy a second smaller car for when they go to certain stores...

True heroes do this.

If you have a 22 foot long truck, you should understand that normal infrastructure is not built for you. Either park way at the back of the lot where you’re not inconveniencing people, or on the street.

Because its too long to park without sticking out into traffic?

Like I don't care what you're using it for, if you cannot park it properly, then don't take buy it or at least don't take it with you.

Most vans and pickups aren't even that long so it's not even as if it's necessitates being that long either.

Ikeas have super large parking spots, they have parking spots for big vehicles and buses. If your car can't fit there, you bought the biggest asshole car in the universe

I don't think ikea even sells furniture that requires such gigantic vehicles in the first place.

That said, furniture is an excellent example of why you could just drive a normal vehicle, a bicycle or a bus to go windowshopping and later have the new furniture delivered to your doorstep by a specialised company and/or vehicle or rent a specialised vehicle for the odd occasion. The cost for society will actually be a damn lot lower.

You can fit that in a normal pickup. I don’t think IKEA sells anything that requires a 22 foot long pickup. Also, who buys entertainment centers and bunk beds on the reg?

If it's from Ikea, I can probably fit an entire bedroom worth of furniture into my two door Honda civic.

Everything they make is flat packed, and you have to assemble it into it's 3D form after purchase.

I can stack so many of those Ikea items in my tiny shitbox.

you know they deliver, right?

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mercedes-benz-vito-2014-van-lwb-vs-dodge-ram-2010-pickup-2500-crew-cab-4wd/

One of those would be better at IKEA

One that large to a furniture store that exclusively sells flat pack furniture, and parking it in an inconvenient way in the parking lot, yes.

You can fit an IKEA bedroom set in a lot of cars, and in all pickups with a >4ft bed.

It's Ikea, king of the flat-pack. You could fit literally an entire room's worth of Ikea furniture in a subcompact hatchback, depending on which pieces you buy.

(Okay so that's on top of a tiny car, not in it, but you get the idea.)

I’ve bought tons of furniture and had no problem at all with my 16 foot long truck that fits in one parking space. I don’t think IKEA sells anything that wouldn’t fit in my truck.

Dodge Ram can be 21’+

It also implies, statistically speaking, they have a DUI.

Yes, crew can with an 8ft bed.

I don’t see them often, but they are almost always used as actual work vehicles. Very few people who want a “big” truck want a long truck. It’s just a total pain.

Then get a van

I did give them the benefit of the doubt... by not actually putting that sign on their car!

If they're one of the very rare "I actually need this vehicle", fine, but we don't know.

If they're one of the common "I NeEd tHIs gIAnT veHicLE" people compensating for their own insecurities... not done, but also more likely.

No one here genuinely hates tradies (etc) who genuinely use large vehicles... we hate people who buy them without needing them, because too many of them suck for everyone.

You're going to purchase a 22ft truck just for Ikea trips? How often are you going to Ikea for large furniture?

If we're talking working at IKEA as like a delivery guy yeah but as a normal dude you don't need a full size pickup for a once a year thing even I a dude who lives in the middle of nowhere Vermont and have to haul firewood to stay warm during winter my willies jeep does the job just fine and that's a car that doesn't even have a bed I just have a crap ton of horsepower and a trailer people forget that jeeps entered the civilian market as a work vehicle for farms and lumber yards

I believe Ikea have their own vehicles.

I once rented a cargo van to buy a mattress and bed frame from IKEA. It turned out that I didn't need the van at all and could have packed everything into the 4-door sedan I had at the time. Part of it was because the mattress was rolled up in a compact manner. I seem to recall that the van could easily fit in one spot.

Looks like a dodge ram pickup. Stock they are 229 inches long. That's 19 feet. If they have a front cattle guard and some kind of towing accessories in the rear it could be 22 feet. Hopefully a work truck, and I assume it is with the note....... Otherwise definitely small dick energy hahahahaha

There's also much longer vehicles that suit different purposes that people use without issue. We have no idea what their day-to-day work is and this might be the best possible option for them.

The small dick kill the environment type trucks usually don't focus on long truck beds.

Are those tradesmen hauling heavy equipment like the above commenter mentioned? A small van works great for a plumber, not so much for an excavation company. Although i doubt this guy is about to dig up the ikea parking lot.

If it does, can someone tell me where I can buy one?

Edit: asking for a friend. Obv.

That's definitely worth having an oversized vehicle for. I'm not questioning that at all. The supersized pickup with an 8ft bed and seating for 12 is where the fuck cars frustration comes in.

Yeah, and we don't use mattresses or couches in Europe either because we can't fit them in our cars.

considering the "bed" is just over 10ft long and about 6ft tall, I could fit most mattresses, as well as most normally sized couches in the back too. A single king sized foundation would need to be angled though.

My first vehicle was a Ford Ranger, and up until a few weeks ago it was my favorite.

that's why we don't have couches or tables outside of USA. You just can't go buy them and there's no very easy and practical way around it.

If only there were companies (perhaps even the ones you bought furniture from) who had speciallist delivery vehicles for the twice in a decade time you need to move funiture.

Alas it isnt to be.

You can just rent a truck for such cases. Most truck use cases are so rare for the average person that renting is cheaper than buying a large truck. Also, a lot of these large pickups have a auprisingly short 🛌.

When I last moved, I fit my six person dining room set in my VW Passat at the same time. The table was partially disassembled, all the chairs were whole. Pretty sure there was other stuff in the car at the time too. Regular people don't need these giant pickups.

I fit an entire Kivik (sofa with chaise) into a Nissan Rogue no problem. It's impressive how effective their sizing and modularity is.

my compact SUV

Oh, so thats why he’s defending a truck.

Use a trailer, get a rental truck, get it delivered. All options a heck of a lot cheaper than buying a truck and paying the cost of a truck plus the fuel for such a horribly inefficient daily driver

Unless you're transporting couches regularly of course. Then a truck makes sense

That's why just about every shop selling items larger than the boot of a regular car offers delivery.

Like sure, it's not free, but it's cheaper than the difference between a regular car and a Fall Guy truck.

How often are you buying furniture? Every day? Every week? Every month?

I need the third dimension on that box. I absolutely could fit a 37" × 69" × 12" box in my SAAB 900 SPG, load in smaller boxes, and still close the hatch. I know this because I fit a bureau in the back that was 40" × 70" × 30".

What if he’s got to move these refrigerators? What if he’s got to move these color tv’s?

That ain't workin'. That's the way you do it.

To be fair, the majority of truck owners have no need for the utility, and just want a big truck

How come not a single contractor, farmer or hauler needs one in any other country?

If you turned up to a building site in one of those you'd get absolutely laughed at for your fucking stupidity

Exactly this here. Give people an open online discussion platform and they will turn it into Twitter.

How do you know it isn't? The picture looks intentionally framed to obscure where this vehicle is parked or even what it is.

That's an amazing trailer! Add in an ebike and you could haul almost anything you need for the vast majority of home projects.

You never tried that yourself, am I right?

Cool. How many trips? Would you do it for a living?

double that if you're really trying hard

yeah school busses outside of parking lots at schools or depots are pretty hard to deal with. Unless you want to park it in your driveway, maybe.

To be fair, its ikea. Its appropriate to have a truck there to carry a lot of furnuture back.

uh yeah, have you ever seen a moving truck? They're all large big box trucks, if you've ever been in a more affluent neighborhood you'll have seen an RV, whether towed or not. You've seen garbage trucks (though those don't really count, as do most other industry trucks)

especially considering this is relevant to ikea.

like i'm cool with removed about f150s being large and shit, but trucks that are 22 feet long are a bit of a different story.

Well at a furniture store I can understand. Maybe it's someone from a business buying a lot of furniture.

They should stop on the dealership lot lol.

My friend and I used a Uhaul to move cross country once, and it was hard enough for us to park places along the way, and we could mostly fit into normal parking spaces IIRC.

We had considered also pulling a trailer, but I have no idea how we could have gotten food in towns, parked in crowded lots, etc. It would have been a lot more planning if we had a longer vehicle.

I once fit an IKEA mattress, bed frame, and slats in the back of my hatchback, with enough room leftover to make a grocery run.

Yeah there's that too lol.The further back the better.

Short for "boondocks," which just means out in a rural area (or in this case, the far end of the parking lot).

I'm too lazy to look up the etymology though.

i'm willing to bet lots of money this is actually just a box truck, look at the interior and roof line, it's just a box truck.

In the US, all metal tubes/pipes/stock for metal-working related tasks (welding, plumbing, structural stuff) comes in 20ft sections. The three options that I know of for transporting them are: trailer, box truck or roof rack.
A 22foot truck with roof rack would be perfect for someone who works with metal e.g. a plumber. A smaller truck would work but then you’ve got a bunch of pipes hanging off like you’re in a jousting tournament.

Towing, in particular with a fifth wheel or gooseneck trailer.

Better idea: Don't buy a truck that's too big to use safely....

Do you have a source for your claim that parking spots are getting smaller? I've personally seen the exact opposite.

If you can't fit a parking spot, you wasted money on too big of a vehicle.

No, they don't. It's bad that someone buys this to begin with, and yeah it sucks that they're taking up two parking spaces, but why direct your hate towards a person who actually seems to have a better attitude than 99% of people driving similar vehicles?

"Wow, your bed is in such good shape." is great subtle shade throw at a truck owner.

I completely understand. I've caught myself saying to my fiance "that's a work truck" a lot whenever I see trucks I like. I drive a truck that I use for work. My definition of a work truck is a lot like mine, not a small bed, if there is a lift it's for function, not looks so unless you know what you're looking at you don't notice it. It's got a single or extended cab and it's got some dings and scratches. If you don't know the size of the bed in your truck you don't use it enough. I haul sheets of plywood and drywall often and an 8ft bed would be great but my 6.5 does the job just fine. I'm changing jobs so I don't know if I'll need it anymore but that truck was my livelihood for a long time.