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The one on the left is used by people who need to carry things. The one of the right is used by losers.
Left one carries stuff, right one carries fragile egoes
What about people who need extra room for a child's car seat (they're huge nowadays) and also need to carry stuff the way a truck does?
Edit: I live out in the country and I'm in need of a pickup for carrying loads of stuff. Putting it in the back of my Ford Edge is highly inconvenient as it doesn't fit in one load and messed up the interior (the sides of the trunk are scratched to hell now.
And my point was simply that there are entirely legitimate uses for a pickup truck. 98% of people don't have a legitimate use case, but that didn't mean no one does.
What are you carrying around all day with your child that doesn't fit in a minivan?
Or just a regular car
seriously, americans are fucking delusional with what the requirements of life are, 90% of the rest of the world does just fine with regular-sized cars.
But where will I put my fridge when I move every 3 years for my job?🥺
I live out in the country. We don't get garbage pickup. The garbage dump is very close to my child's daycare. It's 20 minutes away. It's open from 8am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday. I either bring the garbage with me when I go to daycare, or I have to schedule time off from work to take out garbage.
I have a Ford Edge, so no, a minivan wouldn't work. To be clear, it's not impossible. But a truck would be 10x more convenient.
Thats a reasonable use case for a truck. The majority of hate I have for trucks are for more city based people who claim they totally need it when they maybe move something 2-3 times a year.
That said, a small trailer could probably handle your garbage behind an SUV or capable car. Although it would still require more parking than the truck so the benefits overall are arguable.
This obviously varies based on where you live, but using a trailer where I'm at incurs a ton of extra costs: *Landfill charges extra when using a trailer to bring your trash. *Tollway charges extra for the trailer *State charges annual property tax on the trailer Granted, I have an '04 regular cab Chevy Colorado (before they started making them as huge as half tons of years past), but I'm dreading the day it dies. There are no small pickups available anymore (Santa Few and Maverick's 4.5' bed is worthless for my use case).
I think this argument is a losing battle on this community. It's clear there is no room for nuance or reason.
You could do what you want for cheaper, and with less impact on the environment. Thats a fact. Thats where you are finding dispute.
A trailer isn't out of the question, it just adds a whole new level of inconvenience. It's extra time to move the car, hook up the trailer, verify the electrical is working (I always check left-right-breaks-4way whenever I connect a trailer), then parking the trailer, disconnecting it, then parking the car. I know it doesn't sound like much, but that time quickly adds up, and it can get 35+ in the summers and -30 in the winters (Celsius). When getting the kid ready to leave for daycare it's easier to load up in the relatively comfortable garage. I know that's a first world problem, but a truck would just simply all of that.
To be clear, I'm not getting a truck because they're as expensive as a sports car now, but the point stands.
Yes you like the convenience of it. Noones saying they aren't convenient. Its not only about your personal convenience, because cars affect everyone nearby.
Theres a reason they cost so much, and will continue to raise as the price gets closer to its actual cost to create and use one.
And I know you know this, because you ended the post saying that if you didnt have the truck now, you wouldn't buy another one. Have you actually thought this through or is it just some automatic cognitive dissonance reaction from owning a truck?
I think it has more to do with your reading comprehension and thinking I said anywhere that I own a truck.
And you are still avoiding my point. I understand you dont have a truck. I wasn't the only one that assumed you were defending your own use case.
I'm saying you admitting you wouldn't buy a truck now betrays how you say you feel about them.
You are saying there is at least one person that needs a truck, and im saying they dont, they just prefer it. Choosing the truck says something about what is important to the person who bought it.
And a flat trailer for your Ford would be even more convenient
How size of your truck is compared to Lada Granta? Because my grandparents drove it with driver + 3 adults + child me + stuff including garbage from dacha.
Well, for one, I don't have a truck. Too expensive.
Second, child care seats in North America were revised recently to be larger so that they can protect children better.
To put it in context, putting a child seat in my 2013 Jetta makes it so that the front passenger can barely fit. Anyone over 5' 6" has to srunch their legs to fit.
The Jetta claim is weird because I fit a 6’ adult comfortably in the passenger seat of my GTI with the car seat in the back.
How big is your car seat?
I don't know the exact dimensions, but it's big enough that I actually had to get rid of my 2015 golf because the front passenger seat became unusable. And I'm not exaggerating. The car seat barely fit with the front seat pushed all the way forward and leaned forward past vertical.
I know this is a common complaint with parents in the past few years in Canada. I don't know if child car seat regulations are different at all in the US. I don't think they are, I'm just not sure.
You've convinced me, oversized pickup trucks surely should stay around to help fit these oversized car seats.
how much garbage do you produce on a daily basis that you need a truck to haul it hoo lee
You live out in the country, you clearly didn't grow up in the country.
I grew up in the country, we had a truck with a full sized bed and a bench. You put the baby seat in the middle of the bench, strap it down like you do in the car and a lap belt and you pick up your chicken feed with your kid in the truck. Ain't rocket science here and you don't need to have a crew cab and a worthless short bed to do things out there.
Shit dude, if you're worried about scratches to your vehicle, maybe you should move back to the suburbs.
But I don't have a truck.
I said "mess up the interior" with "leaky garage bags". But yes, the inside is scuffed also.
Thanks for gatekeeping where I live, you clearly know everything about me.
WTF do you expect when you post anonymously about "needing" a gigantic truck with a extended cab and a tiny worthless truck bed because you have a kid in a car seat and don't have the sense to know that if you actually grew up in the country, you'd damn well know you can strap in a car set in on a truck bench.
And here's another judgement, it's a pretty piss poor excuse for trying to justify "needing" once again a huge, wasteful, dumb short bed truck because you have a car seat and have a want to haul a few bags of trash. Ever heard of double bagging? Or a trailer? Or if you did grow up in the country, a burn barrel?
You're right that I don't know everything about you, I only know what you share on a anonymous social media board, and what I have read so far, you sure do sound like one of those suburban transplants wasting good farmland.
I never said "need" once.
Cause THAT'S environmentally friendly.
A bunch of assumptions there.
LMAO, that'd be a helluva fast way to get fined around here. I'm in the "country", but it's not in the middle of nowhere. It's a neighborhood built just a bit out from a small town of 5000 people. It's "country", but kind of isn't at the same time. I have to register with the county each time I want to have a fire in the fire pit. And burning garbage is a fast way to get in crap. And not to mention monumentally stupid.
Pretty sad that you feel you have to put so much effort and so many words to justify why you shouldn't be a suburbanite like you should be.
I mostly agree with the fact that most people who have pickup trucks don't actually need them.
That being said, the only thing sad in this comment section is how much energy you are wasting to gatekeep this one person's 'countryness', just because they posted a random comment.
I think they are just frustrated the poster didnt reply to any of their counterpoints.
This still doesn't matter make sense. Lots of people have multiple kids and/or a spouse. Manufacturing more vehicles just to please your ego is not the economical or environmentally friendly thing to do.
This doesn't make any sense. You live out in the country, you're probably going to need a truck. You aren't going to haul horse shit, lime, a crap ton of chicken feed, or water for your cistern in a car or even a SUV. But you should be buying a vehicle that actually fits the work being done and if it's a small truck then buy a small truck and not giant penis extender with no ability to haul a damn thing.
Ok, so is this whole discussion a misunderstanding?
I'm saying "there are valid uses for a truck" and (from what I thought) everyone else is saying "all trucks are bad, you don't need a truck".
But now you're saying that the discussion is explicitly the exact truck that's in the photo and small trucks are ok? Is that what you're saying?
Could be. I'm not in the camp of all cars are bad.
The whole discussion about the, in my opinion, worthless truck in the picture and when you state you have a car seat without clarification about a ute or a compact truck, then it's assumed you're talking about the need for one of those dumb things that all suburbanites seem to want and buy.
And I'm not saying that just blanket small truck ownership is okay either, I'm of the opinion you should buy the car that fits what you need and wish we had a society and cities that could get me to not even driving day to day. So to me even a guy that lives in a small town only to drives to and from work only and never hauls a thing still doesn't need a small truck that gets crappy gas mileage.
How'd they get someone pregnant with that medically diagnosed micropenis?
Lol. This isn't an insult to me the way you want it to be.
Good. I wasn't trying to insult you.
What is "carrying stuff the way a truck does"? No offense, I really do not understand
Well, I can't shove drywall, leaking smelly garbage, construction scrap, etc into a Ford Edge without seriously messing up the inside. So that kind of way.
Why would you need to shove it IN car, when you can carry it ON car?
To get a roof rack installed on my car would be over $1000. I checked.
You can't make this argument while also stating in other comments that a truck is too expensive.
I'm not arguing that. You have a fair point.
But my argument about a use case for a truck isn't about MY truck (I don't have one), it was merely about the valid use for owning a truck.
I'm getting by right now by wrecking the inside of my car (it's already done). I looked at getting a roof rack, but the quote I got was around $1400. But that only would help with getting new drywall. Not broken up garbage drywall, and wouldn't help with bags of garbage.
I know you don't have a truck. As I said, I read your comments.
I still don't understand your other issues. They seem like they'd be solved with a tarp and good garbage bags (that keep smells contained). I haul garbage and yard waste all the time in my Golf.
A truck wouldn't be a panacea for your issues either. Truck beds also get scratched up and if you're responsible you'd have to secure your loads.
I'm not getting a truck. I'm not in the market for a truck. All I said was "here's a good use case for a truck". I'm not looking for suggestions or help. This wasn't meant to be a round table discussion to fix my predicament.
It was just a counterpoint to "all trucks are stupid".
And all I said was it's not a good use case for a truck. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ok, fair. But I know people who need a truck because they have nowhere to store a trailer. A friend of mine works in construction and uses his truck for carrying materials, tools, hauling away garage, etc. And he lives in an apartment.
How?
Although maybe your car doesn't have rack mounts from factory. For lada it's about 20€ and tightening few bolts.
What an absolutely bonkers suggestion. Do you legitimately think this solves the problem?
If someone actually did this, strapped drywall, leaking garbage bags, and other random garbage on top of their vehicle, there would be a post on here so fucking fast calling the driver a moron.