Dickgirl with a CDL here: I love pickup trucks, at least anything bigger than a half-ton. You can get a lot of work done, pull a lot of shit and other things with a properly outfitted truck. I’m tired of people pretending like Japanese light trucks have any sort of similar capabilities, capacities, or safeties that half-tons have.
First of all, bed space doesn’t mean jack if you don’t have the suspension to hold it or the brakes to stop it in motion. Then, the engine: half-tons can have 6.7L Diesel engines while Japanese light trucks only have 0.66L engines by Japanese law. Good luck pulling anything with that.
Next, people LOVE to pretend like there aren’t any uses for half-tons meanwhile I used them every day in my road maintenance job. Sometimes medium-duty trucks are just too fucking big for what you want to use them for. Supply runs and picking up trash is easy in a pickup, but annoying as fuck in a dump truck.
If you want to talk about city slickers who have spotless lifted low-profile tires and shit, then sure. But I love me some half-tons and I’m tired of people shitting on them
If you want to talk about city slickers who have spotless lifted low-profile tires and shit,
As a son of a man who bought a brand new truck every other year and never used them to transport anything ever, I’m laughing exclusively at this group, yes.
People shit on them because while there are people that actually use them for real work daily that’s like maybe if I’m being super generous 5% of the market of trucks. Even out in rural areas like I am where it’s over two and a half hours to the nearest grouping of buildings large enough to even pretend to be called the city the majority of the people out here with their big ass lifted trucks never take them off the pavement and never do any real work with them.
They are just driven around as status symbols and I’m tired of seeing them, the best part being that my little smart fortwo can literally off road better than most of these four wheel trucks out here thanks to it’s short wheelbase, and I have a variable suspension so I don’t even have to be permanently dumb lifted to do it
I live in Wyoming and I want to get a 4x4 half ton with a full bed so in the winter I can slap a hydraulic flat bed on it for two snowmobiles and a snow plow on the front. In the summer it would tow my ruggedized camper and maybe dirt bikes in the bed.
They are super useful but “luxury” and/or urban pick-ups have given them a bad reputation.
I would say that less than half the pickup trucks in the US have ever towed a single trailer, maybe one in four have towed a uhaul to help a buddy move once. Even guys working construction barely do anything that actually requires a pick-up. The boss’s truck will move all the heavy expensive stuff, but a van works even better since you can lock everything up and not have to worry about someone stealing your tools while you are out to lunch.
I think the number of people they kill and the fact that 99.99% of them are used as gender affirming vehicles for cis men or fear totems for suburban white women means we should not have them.
yes, there is a narrow use case. sure. but a sufficiently souped up small truck designed to modern spec without the limits of japanese law would probably do most of that fine, and the ability to do any, or even all of that, is not worth the cost in human lives and greenhouse gasses that these cause.
Dickgirl with a CDL here: I love pickup trucks, at least anything bigger than a half-ton. You can get a lot of work done, pull a lot of shit and other things with a properly outfitted truck. I’m tired of people pretending like Japanese light trucks have any sort of similar capabilities, capacities, or safeties that half-tons have.
First of all, bed space doesn’t mean jack if you don’t have the suspension to hold it or the brakes to stop it in motion. Then, the engine: half-tons can have 6.7L Diesel engines while Japanese light trucks only have 0.66L engines by Japanese law. Good luck pulling anything with that.
Next, people LOVE to pretend like there aren’t any uses for half-tons meanwhile I used them every day in my road maintenance job. Sometimes medium-duty trucks are just too fucking big for what you want to use them for. Supply runs and picking up trash is easy in a pickup, but annoying as fuck in a dump truck.
If you want to talk about city slickers who have spotless lifted low-profile tires and shit, then sure. But I love me some half-tons and I’m tired of people shitting on them
As a son of a man who bought a brand new truck every other year and never used them to transport anything ever, I’m laughing exclusively at this group, yes.
People shit on them because while there are people that actually use them for real work daily that’s like maybe if I’m being super generous 5% of the market of trucks. Even out in rural areas like I am where it’s over two and a half hours to the nearest grouping of buildings large enough to even pretend to be called the city the majority of the people out here with their big ass lifted trucks never take them off the pavement and never do any real work with them.
They are just driven around as status symbols and I’m tired of seeing them, the best part being that my little smart fortwo can literally off road better than most of these four wheel trucks out here thanks to it’s short wheelbase, and I have a variable suspension so I don’t even have to be permanently dumb lifted to do it
I live in Wyoming and I want to get a 4x4 half ton with a full bed so in the winter I can slap a hydraulic flat bed on it for two snowmobiles and a snow plow on the front. In the summer it would tow my ruggedized camper and maybe dirt bikes in the bed.
They are super useful but “luxury” and/or urban pick-ups have given them a bad reputation.
I would say that less than half the pickup trucks in the US have ever towed a single trailer, maybe one in four have towed a uhaul to help a buddy move once. Even guys working construction barely do anything that actually requires a pick-up. The boss’s truck will move all the heavy expensive stuff, but a van works even better since you can lock everything up and not have to worry about someone stealing your tools while you are out to lunch.
…less than one in ten…
I think the number of people they kill and the fact that 99.99% of them are used as gender affirming vehicles for cis men or fear totems for suburban white women means we should not have them.
yes, there is a narrow use case. sure. but a sufficiently souped up small truck designed to modern spec without the limits of japanese law would probably do most of that fine, and the ability to do any, or even all of that, is not worth the cost in human lives and greenhouse gasses that these cause.