US trucks are ridiculously oversized and typically never see any actual "truck" usage. They're also insanely expensive and are often redneck status symbols. As an American, I'm sorry they have infested your continent.
Source: I live in a yeehaw state where people own $70,000 trucks while living in a $7,000 hovel.
It's a pickup truck. And probably not used for anything a truck would be used for. They're everywhere in America and just as annoying.
I personally don't see the point in having a vehicle this big unless it's used for work (hauling materials and towing trailers) And 95% of the time, it's not.
I mean the truck bed is like 3 feet long, you can't do anything with it, it's never been off-road, and it has two full size rows of seats. It's an SUV in denial.
I thought it was commentary about how both SUVs and pickup trucks are both classified as light trucks, and aren't required by law to have certain features that come standard in regular cars.
My understanding is that utes are generally unibodies, but that truck definitely has a frame. Based off the wheels and bed cover, it's a useless truck driven by a dickhead, but a truck just the same.
See, my crippled ass is going to squeeze through anyway. Even if that means the metal clasps on my shoulder bag grind against the vehicle, or even if the attachment point for the strap on my cane happens to dig in if I happen to stumble because of the tight space.
Will that result in dents and scrapes? Absolutely. Do I care? Absolutely not.
My non-crippled ass would possibly also have some issues. I might trip with my keys in my hand or something worse. Who's to know what dangers parking like this could pose.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve heard that you can call to get vehicles towed if they are blocking the sidewalk. I don’t know if that’s in every municipality, but I suspect the tow companies and the city would not mind the revenue.
So much of that in England. I get people don't want to block the road, but when you are sitting on the entire footpath so nobody can get passed. You're an asshole.
I was so cross when a van didn't bother to park just a few metres away in a designated parking spot to go to the corner shop and just decided to sit and block the entire pavement at a point to close to a hedge that meant we were forced to go out into the road.
Blocking sidewalks anywhere is a shitty move. If you can’t park without blocking the sidewalk, you shouldn’t park there. This includes your own driveway
While trucks are complete nonsense to have for 9/10 owners, sometimes it's choosing between two evils. Either park it like this, or have it stick out this far at the front, blocking traffic flow.
Instead of being infuriated by the way it's parked, we should be just because it's a truck that Is useless to have, especially in the Netherlands.
Block the flow of traffic. Vehicle traffic has predefined rules to deal with this and it happens all the time. Now you're forcing pedestrians to go onto the road creating a safety hazard. Strollers, like with OP, or disabled people or really you name it are severely disadvantaged by this, just because this person needed a gigantic car thought vehicle traffic was more important than pedestrians.
I mean, the answer is "Your vehicle is too large to park here." It's one of the reasons I drive a smaller car, parking is a removed where I'm from and I'd hate passing up spots because I can't fit.
In my country it's actually illegal to do this. Law states that wherever you are parking you have to make sure there are 1.8m left for the pedestrians.
Ow damn. Weird seeing my city and a car that I know. The owner lives in my apartment complex. There are some 'main character'-parking-toddlers living at my place that get my blood boiling every time they try to redefine the lines on the parking lot.
As shitty as people can be, it’s never appropriate to respond to non-damaging inconvenience with vandalism. That’s you stooping even lower than their level.
why is inconveniencing one person (admittedly on a worse level) worse than inconveniencing everyone that uses the sidewalk (so smaller level, but wider scale)?
why do you believe this? Is it just because the law states one is punished worse than the other?
To be fair, they're really not that different. A common definition for SUVs, to my knowledge, is essentially just a passenger car built on a light truck chassis. Lots of these modern trucks have a full set of front and back seats and a relatively small bed (compared to the size of the vehicle anyway), and further, many are used by people who almost never actually haul stuff in it. In such a case, such a truck is basically getting used as an SUV anyway, just shaped like a truck because lots of people like trucks I guess.