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SyndicalistCPA OP t1_j89uvdv wrote

With how big American cars and trucks are becoming and in addition to their electrification (batteries are heavy as fuck), maybe its time we start considering this here. The increasing weight means that getting hit by a vehicle means there is a lot greater chance of serious injury.

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DirectorBeneficial48 t1_j8a72lt wrote

The weight and size are truly ridiculous. A push back to smaller trucks would be a great start. The vast majority of pickup owners are compensating, rather than actually using it as a means of hauling stuff.

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xTheShrike t1_j8at9d3 wrote

I bought a pickup truck when I was renovating the house I lived in. Originally my wife and I just had sedans and we would use the pickup once or twice a week to haul stuff around. This proposal is insane and not seeing any type of nuance to the problem. There are many people who use their pickup trucks once in awhile and are in no way "compensating for anything".

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nasty_brutish_longer t1_j8bb61a wrote

I did 15 years in commercial renovation. You didn't need a pickup truck. I know this because I never had a pickup truck.

There are a lot of people out there who like to feel that they need a truck, and buying one is incredibly easy. I can't know if that applies to you, or if you honestly thought it would make your life easier. But with truck sales being almost entirely feelings based these days, it's hard to give anyone the benefit of the doubt anymore.

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xTheShrike t1_j8bc6tb wrote

I don't understand, if you did commercial renovations you probably used your companies equipment? I didn't have that luxury. How are you coming to the conclusion that truck sales are "feelings based"? Your own feelings?

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nasty_brutish_longer t1_j8bmqhz wrote

I got supplies delivered. I hired out carting. My equipment fit in a hatchback. It's not hard. Plenty of trades do need a truck--though usually a van--but that tends to be for a mobile toolbox, not hauling.

I can't, of course, know what motivates everyone's vehicle purchases. But with truck sales up, new home builds flat or declining and recent spikes in disposable income, it's hard not to see vanity when highways become seas of clean pickup beds and king cabs.

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DirectorBeneficial48 t1_j8bkday wrote

What you said has virtually nothing to do with what I said. Please re-read what I posted, starting with

> A push back to smaller trucks would be a great start. The vast majority of pickup owners are compensating, rather than actually using it as a means of hauling stuff.

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DancingCavalier t1_j8e5qx3 wrote

Yes, this is the thing. I don't think people realize that pick up trucks being as large as they are is a new phenomenon. 40 years ago they were way smaller. I can't imagine that the needs of most individuals changed in that time to require them to be as enormous as they tend to be now.

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well_damm t1_j8aac5h wrote

I agree, nothing more infuriating than some obtuse person buying a big vehicle as a form of “protection” for themselves.

We see plenty of these individuals on the road, they think because they’re driving some Escalade, Cherokee , X5, etc they don’t have to pay attention or are worse drivers because they got a “big car”.

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