• Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    So much accusations and assumptions. What if the owner is a construction worker doing custom kitchen deliveries, and needs this monster for living. You sure can’t haul a kitchen kit in your man’s Toyota Aygo or Fiat 500.

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      3 months ago

      How about a rancher, car hauler, or farmer.

      Far too many people have no concept for legitimate need for such a monster of a vehicle because they only know assholes who want a big truck for the sake of having a big truck.

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        3 months ago

        How come not a single contractor, farmer or hauler needs one in any other country?

        If you turned up to a building site in one of those you’d get absolutely laughed at for your fucking stupidity

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          3 months ago

          Other countries have vehicles that are sized to accommodate the conditions; smaller roads, less space, and different emissions laws. America wasn’t built based on 1,500+ year old roads.

          You can’t have an 8ft wide dually with a 20ft trailer to take an excavator to a job site in London, you need a lorry. You would be laughed at because you can’t maneuver that setup around and would get fucked in pinch points on a one-way street.

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            3 months ago

            Said like someone whose driving test involves mostly ordering a burger at a drive through 😂

            Yous’ll think up any excuse for your tiny-penis trucks despite nobody else in the world, including those in bigger countries with worse roads, requiring them

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          3 months ago

          Have you ever been to another country though? The kinds of cars handymen in Europe prefer are usually a van like T6 or Sprinter, the latter being 20 feet long. For a good pro, their van usually contains a supermarket’s worth of tools and materials nearly assembled and ready to use. You can’t just assume America is the only place that needs hauling stuff.

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            3 months ago

            That was exactly the point I was making. For a contractor, a pickup is one of the least useful vehicles.

            My point was that in other countries, everyone uses vans or lorries

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      3 months ago

      The cropping makes me suspicious. I don’t know what vehicle it is or where it is. Feels like engineered rage bait.

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        3 months ago

        How do you know it isn’t? The picture looks intentionally framed to obscure where this vehicle is parked or even what it is.

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      3 months ago

      You sure can’t haul a kitchen kit in your man’s Toyota Aygo or Fiat 500.

      I wouldn’t be so sure about that. With Ikea flat-pack cabinets and a small enough kitchen design (e.g. galley kitchen in a tiny apartment), I wouldn’t be surprised if you could fit everything except the appliances in one of those tiny cars.

      Of course, it’d probably be easier to fit them on a bicycle with a proper trailer.

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        3 months ago

        That’s an amazing trailer! Add in an ebike and you could haul almost anything you need for the vast majority of home projects.

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          3 months ago

          What, the tiny car thing or the bike trailer thing?

          I don’t have an Aygo/500 or a fancy Bikes at Work trailer, but I have hauled stuff in the Hyundai Accent hatchback I used to own and towed cargo in a cheap Instep bicycle trailer.

          (I admit, a Hyundai Accent hatchback is quite a bit bigger than an Aygo or 500, especially with the rear seats folded down. It can hold enough that I’d be more worried about maxing out weight capacity when hauling flat-pack cabinets, rather than having sufficient cargo volume for them.)