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These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

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These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us




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  • SpaceChimera

    Nothing like being blinded by a dude with a desk job driving his mini tank with headlights that are the perfect height to catch my rear view mirror

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  • BornGorn

    I bought a Ford Maverick hybrid and I love that thing. Compact 4 door truck that fits into the same parking spaces a Prius would. The gas mileage is insane, too. 60mpg to the grocery store and back with city driving.

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  • Ah84VEVO

    Somehow no matter how fast you’re driving over the speed limit, someone driving one of these big ass trucks always rides your ass

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  • dizzysn

    Forgetting the weight of these things, the sheer SIZE of trucks and SUVs anymore is appalling and create massive visual obstructions to cars around them.

    I drive an absolutely regular ass 2010 Audi S4 sedan. It isn’t lowered. When I park next to an SUV or truck, it’s a fucking nightmare trying to back out. They visually block EVERYTHING around them. It makes trying to safely navigate around them impossible. It’s so dangerous that to see past them, I have to put half my car forward, because their hood line and bed line are above the windows of my car.

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  • CAMx264x

    Always makes me laugh seeing the 90k+ trucks with a lift at my work and I roll in with my scratched 15k truck that I regularly use as a truck to haul and take in the woods.

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  • Mooshtonk

    People use them as status symbols. I see people driving Escalades and Suburbans and other huge suv’s and they have like 1 kid or even no kids. No need to have something so big other than they just want it.

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  • humbuckermudgeon

    There’s clearly a market for 80s sized small pickups like Toyota and Nissan used to make, but they’re not making them today.

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  • teenwent11

    Farmer here with a rather large and unwieldy pickup truck. We’ve got three vehicles: a Mazda 3, a Corolla, and a truck. This guy is 100% correct about everything he says. We rarely drive the truck as we can get almost everything we need to done in the mazda. Sheesh, I can even haul a cow behind it.

    The sedan is cheaper, faster, more efficient, and just plain smarter. We only use the truck for very large objects or loads such as concrete, glass, dirt, or multiple animals. It does have its use, but I’d say not more than once every two weeks. It’s also more draining to drive due to its width. I’ve got to pay attention because I don’t have much space within the lanes compared to when I drive the sedan. Generally this leads to drives being longer and more stressful as compared to sedans.

    Anyways, I thought I’d put this out there and hope that I can save someone from buying a truck. If I swapped my sedan for a slightly larger station wagon, I’m pretty sure I’d be able to do everything I’ve done in the truck……except move loads of logs. But that’s something I can live with 🙂

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  • hostile65

    This video is pretty dead on.

    I live in a rural area.

    I have an old ranch truck. My truck doubles as a fire suppressor in the dryer months.

    I hate that people in cities have made full size pickups luxury vehicles that are expensive af.

    I love my truck but I do not want to drive that around a cities or the burbs everyday.

    I have a small fuel efficient sedan for that.

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  • _Glibnik_

    I have a 1994 Ford Ranger with 250k+ miles and people are constantly trying to buy it from me. That size is perfect for normal human needs and isn’t a monster on the road.

    Edit: To clarify a couple of things, this isn’t my only vehicle. I have a 2022 (car) for daily driving that has all the new safety features. Thank you to everyone concerned with my safety.

    I would love to buy a newer truck for the features, comfort, safety, and gas mileage, but I don’t need a big ass truck 99% of the time.

    My Ranger is the perfect size for my needs, its cheap to repair, and costs $13 a month for insurance. If I could get a new version of the same truck, at the same size, I’d buy it tomorrow.

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  • tallmantim

    Ford and GM used to make very popular sedan sized trucks for trades workers in Australia. Called utes (utility vehicles).

    Once the gov stopped heavily subsidising the local car industry they left – and now every tradie drives a huge Ford Ranger or similar.

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  • Snarcotic

    This massive, high front styling basically came into fashion over the past few model design cycles, with GM being the worst offender. Look back a few model years, and even the fullsize trucks had sensible sloping low profile front ends for better visibility. Blame it on the brodozer arms race…

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  • JVonDron

    Farmer here. I hate it as well.

    I really liked small trucks for running around. S10’s, Rangers, Dakotas – I had one of each at one point or another. So why not get another? THEY DON’T EXIST. I mean, even today’s small trucks, like the Colorado, are not small anymore. But most importantly, they all have backseats. WTF do I want a backseat for? I haul me, my dog, and a shitload of crap in the back, from fenceposts to compost. You cannot buy a 2 door longbox small truck anymore from anyone.

    We also had dad’s 350 for hauling and the gooseneck trailers. Think that’d be easily replaced on the used market with today’s pavement princesses never seeing heavy use? Nope. It was much cheaper and easier to buy a used daycab Kenworth and 45′ dropdeck flatbed.

    Latest replacement, I spent a long time looking at used markets, but I ultimately said fuckit and bought a brand new, 2021 GMC 1500, refrigerator white, 2 door longbox. Most boring purchase ever was my first completely new vehicle, and I still beat the shit out of it. It’s just thicker and wider everywhere that it doesn’t really need to be, for both crash protection and aesthetics. The seats are straight out of their other truck lines with one major problem no previous regular cab trucks ever had, they don’t fold down so you can get at stuff behind it. Some electronics are welcome additions like the backup camera and bluetooth in the cab, but why the fuck do I need to use the fob to unlock the tailgate.

    I don’t regret it, but it’s a sad thing to see how the great American pickup has fallen – from something as iconic and hardworking as the square body chevy and fourth gen F-series, to this bubble and plastic 4 door grocery getters with tiny beds.

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  • rdewalt

    Oh the parking lot princesses at my kids’ school drive these things, have to practically get a set of stairs to climb up into them, can’t park for shit, and refuse to notice anyone else trying to drive. Every, Single One of them was piloted by a mom who probably couldn’t even change the tire if their life depended on it. Hell, Dollars to Dicks they’ve never once TOUCHED the things tires.

    AND they have to park it backward, why? because it takes longer and they hold up EVERYONE doing it. It is controlling, making OTHERS wait for you, and you are Better Than Them.

    And boy fucking howdy, when they get out of their car in anger, they have their cell phone out and recording already. Karen’s gotta Karen. My daughter accidentally -touched- (with her bare hand) this Lot Leopard’s fuck off bright “Denali” (They typoed denial, come at me bro.) and LOST HER SHIT at my nine-year old, because, she had to squeeze past this BADLY parked thing, and put her hand rather than let her bag scrape it.

    I don’t ever have to worry about stopping to offer help. They’ve got their cellphones glued to their heads and will get their dude to come fix it.

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  • kwirky88

    Whenever i see a large body on frame vehicle rolled over in the ditch it’s gruesome. They have a high center of gravity making them easy to roll and little structure preventing harm when they land upside down. When we were shopping for a vehicle capable of hauling things well secured while also carrying passengers we were looking at European station wagons, the Subaru outback, and the bmw x3/x5. Anything else has a rollover warning on the drivers side visor. I think audi, subaru, and bmw are the only manufacturers of “crossover” vehicles that don’t have rollover warnings.

    Is like the touch screen center console. Mazda found through research that drivers drift into the right lane when interacting with a touch screen so they disable any touch input while their vehicles are moving. But everyone wants tesla’s big touch screen and any manufacturers not delivering that are losing sales.

    People are idiots and unfortunately we have idiots in big metal objects moving at deadly speeds.

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