[image] Emotional support truck

Emotional support truck, blocking the sidewalk, sticking out into the road and with an empty driveway infront of it.

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I know this is !fuckcars@lemmy.world but I really hate driving these modern trucks. The hood is too high, the windshield is too narrow, and the height is too high. You really can't tell how close something. It's really dangerous.
On top of all that the assholes that drives these things have the brightest lights in the world. That shouldn't be allowed in the city.
- Absolutely. Had to drive pickups at work and was constantly competing to get the old, beat up, smaller truck because it was just so much more practical to load and unload.
  The target market here is so sensitive about their masculinity that they’ve actually sabotaged the practical use of these vehicles.
  
  All my neighbors have trucks. I rarely see them use the truck bed. The truck bed is already shortened to make room for a back seat. On top that they all have crossover tool boxes. That take another 25% of room on the bed.
  They basically perfected their target marketing.
  
  Man I have one of these as I tow a 16k lb trailer weekly and I fucking hate the thing. I wish I could get a Isuzu two door cab over with the same specs. Even though the Isuzu isn’t small it’s the smallest thing I could see getting where you can see shit. Also it cost just at as much as one of these support vehicles but without a bed. 😥
- As another guy who drives pickups at work. I hate them as well. They have shit visibility, are difficult to park, handle like a tank, and the bed is difficult to get in and out of.
  They design them now as toys, not work vehicles.
  
  I saw one of those small japanese trucks in real life. Hopefully with enough imports truck companies will make smaller models.
- Fortnine has an excellent video about this issue.
  
  I read this as Fortnite. I was really confused...
  I never heard of this channel before. I'm going to subscribe.
  Thank you for the video. Really informative and well edited.
  The hood slants up?! Wtf...
  
  Canada and Mexico have declining rates and the exact same vehicles, it’s not the vehicles, but people don’t want to take accountability for their actions, so they blame something.
- I had to drive a truck recently, (needed to rent a vehicle, and they only had pickups left.) It was a chevrolet Colorado, which I understand to be one of the smaller trucks available in North America, and I was so happy to get rid of it at the end of the trip. It was fine on the highway, but in the city it was just incredibly awkward. Cumbersome handling, blind spots for days...I constantly felt like I was going to hit something.
  I can't even imagine how clueless you'd be about your immediate surroundings in a monstrosity like what's pictured here.

It's got a full bed too, so they can carry the 5 sheets of plywood they'll need to remodel in 3 years
- And it's lifted so they can pick up those sheets of plywood at that Home Depot that is on top of a rocky mountain with no road to it.

It conveniently has a number you can spam

Be a shame if a bunch of people called and complained. It would be terrible if you could zoom in on the rear passenger window and see their phone number
- Hmm my first thought is that it might be the owner's truck.
  
  Yeah, that is probably the case. I'm sure his company isn't online for review

AKA Gender affirming truck.
- Big truck makes me feel like smol girl >:(

Fuck that shit, climb over it on the pathway as destructively as possible

Haven't seen anyone mention the fact that their landscape is shit
- The website is really top notch, too.
  Between the truck and the yard, I wouldn't call them for any job.
  As others have pointed out, that's no work truck, and that yard is bleak.
  
  ©2035? 😂
- Why would you assume it’s their yard? More than likely they are visiting a client, there doesn’t look to be street parking, and some people don’t want you parking on their driveway.
  This really looks like a contractor trying to fit off the street and driveway and managing the best they can to meet a potential client.
- Better than grass wasting hella water.

In most places, blocking the sidewalk like that is illegal
- Probably is there too but good luck getting anyone to fine them for it

the feminine urge to knife those tires
- Oh that would be illegal. Simply deflating them doesn't cause damage and achieves the same effect.
  
  Unless they don’t notice and drive off and the tire explodes and they hurt a totally innocent bystander.
  Maybe don’t vandalize people’s shit, even if they’re dicks, that makes you a bigger dick in almost all situations. An adult wouldn’t seek revenge. The fuck is wrong with people?
  Not adult enough you need to take your emotions out on other peoples stuff? Come on.
  
  Ah yes, luckily ethics is what the law says :)) /s
  the effect is not the same either, you can just get a pump and refill the tires instead of needing to change them

So we complain about women getting a penis but this guy can't get one? They can. Probably cheaper.

At least this truck might be used occasionally for its purpose even if it's raised height only would make the job harder.
Sticking out into the roadway because they would have trouble fitting between it and the other car to get in the door is a huge asshole move.

I call them compensators.
Their size is inversely proportional to the capacity of the user’s head.
Some are big enough to replace both.

This truck and 95% of others like it are tax loophole trucks: https://www.inc.com/dan-furman/the-suv-tax-deduction-loopholeis-alive-well-but-its-not-what-you-think-it-is.html
In fact, if you Google "tax loophole truck," the first result I get is a dealership.

This is a huge hazard for guys like me.
Points to his pony tail

I don't pretend to know what professional landscape contractors need for their job.
I'm all for fck cars but people who have actual jobs that involve moving stuff like gravel and sod probably have different needs than I do, I assume?
- I agree a truck might be useful to a contractor, but not that truck. It's lifted to an unusable height, and those rims are all flash, no function.
  
  "Pavement Princess"
  
  It depends on the use case, though. If that driver's main concern is getting in and out of muddy work sites safely, maybe carrying cargo is less important than 4WD cred.
- I think a significant part of this problem is that, from what we can see in the photo, they 100% should have pulled forward so that they didn't entirely block the sidewalk. Someone coming through there on a wheelchair or with a stroller would have a real bad time. It also looks like it's out in the road a little, which is very inconsiderate as well.
  
  Yeah I'm not excusing the driver parking it like a jackass.
- People moving gravel and sod aren't driving lifted trucks. The lift makes the bed higher and significantly harder to load and unload.
- It looks like a show truck to me. A real landscaper’s truck is FILTHY and beat up all to hell because it gets used to do actual work.
  This looks like the truck the guy who drives around giving estimates drives.
  
  A real landscaper's truck would also not lifted to ridiculous heights because there is no reason to and it makes using the bed a pain in the ass.
- That is a pickup truck that will never pick up and haul anything.
  
  Classic "work truck". In Canada that decal gets you deductions for Gas and oil, repairs, maintenance, insurance, loan interest, leasing costs, capital cost, parking, and licence and registration fees.
- They would not be using that truck for starters...
- There's no way this truck has ever carried bulk gravel or dirt in its box, or anything that would have scratched the paint.
- I assume they dont need to park on the walkway for their job

Hello, police? Yes I'd like to anonymously report a dangerous road obstruction.

Hopefully the contractor is there to talk about there landscaping.

Looks like this truck as not seen a day of work in its life. No... That's not a compliment.

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