You don’t fit. Go to your own garage. You are several feet too long.
Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3oadt/your_truck_is_stupid_big/
Remember when Hummer came out with a consumer SUV back in the early 90s? I remember thinking they were gigantic and too big for the roads/parking spots. Quick search tells me the wheel base was 130inches (3.3m or 10.8ft). Here it is completely in a parking spot.
A modern F250 supercab with an 8-foot bed is 175.9in (4.5m / 14.7ft). A 6.75-foot bed, the wheelbase is 147.8in (3.75m / 12.3ft). I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer…I can’t help but think the H1 is fucking cool. They’re not that long but they are W I D E.
I’ve seen an increase in these dumb trucks in my small European city. Every single one in pristine condition, so you know the pricks don’t use them for work. A few stood out with expectedly dumb details. One had a license plate a la “I love USA”, and another had a sticker “0800-EAT-SHIT”. I’m pissed EU doesn’t have the balls to ban them altogether.
I need to figure out some way to plausibly scratch these things with deniability. Maybe an umbrella with a metal tip sticking out of my bag. Whoops, sorry, couldn’t be helped, total accident.
Perhaps a simple trip/stumble while holding a handful of sharp metal objects that happen to make contact as you reach out to prevent a full fall, clumsy me…
See, that right there.
I used to have a massive F-550, but it was so beat up and had the connections to make use of that towing capacity.
Most of these trucks have never been off the pavement and never hauled more than groceries.
Also, an F-250 now is the size of my F-550 in the 90s.
And they fucking insist on parking in the front of places. You can drive a piece of shit like that but you can’t walk from the back of the lot? Lazy little dick.
Another reason why I like the European vehicle weight and speed restrictions, especially with a damn trailer. If the gross weight of a vehicle is over 3.5 metric tons (7700 lbs) you are limited to 80 km/h (50 mph). Depending on the version and/or the load, your Ford F-250 is in the right lane with the rest of the trucks and trailers. Any sort of modifications, like raising the damn truck, requires a thorough technical inspection.
Costs $22 worth of gas just to start it up
It’s wild to remember this joke was from 1998, yet I can swear trucks have gotten even bigger since then. I remember most pickup trucks having a compromise between cab space and bed space. My brother’s first truck had two seats in the front and two side seats squished behind it - that is, it was such a small space that the seats faced inwards from the wall and we had to fold our legs so our knees went up. It was actually pretty fun to sit back there, I had a friend who’d ask him specifically to drive us places because she loved that feature.
But nowadays it seems most pickup trucks (that I see, in the US) gave up on making that compromise, like the truck in the post image. Full cab in front like it’s trying to be a family sedan, then a long-ass bed that makes the thing stick out pretty much anywhere it parks.
I’d say “pick a lane,” but with the size of these things, I don’t have high hopes.
I miss my old four cylinder Tacoma sometimes but my mini van is so much more practical. I have a trailer and hitch when I need to haul something I don’t want in the van. I looked at Tacomas again a few years ago and was floored at how big they were, I swear they are the size the full size tundras used to be.
Don’t worry, they are crying at the gas station.
Nah they brag about it. I’m not even joking. Had a dude say it the other day. And I’m in Cali.
They also can never find their signals and are by far the most aggressive drivers on the road.
Poor sand into the gas tank
And these assholes usually the first to whine about how expensive gas is.
you would too if you needed a mortgage to fill up the car
Only silver lining of gas going to is including these guys are paying even more to drive that ugly pos. Not worth everything else going up in price, though.
(I think that’s f250 according to the side, but a 6.7 diesel? $7.50 is the rate for diesel around here and it’s got something like 13 to 14mpg real world stats so lol.)
I think that it’s going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:
“Speeding. No one thinks big of you.”
It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.
In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps “The bigger the trick, the smaller the …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you
Edit: Removed stray period.
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.
Did you mean: Speeding. No one thinks big of you.?
I think you wanted that second period.
Not sure what you mean. When I click the link on my post, it goes to where I intended. Note that I removed an errant period at the end of the URL about an hour ago.
Edit: Well this is getting weird. I tested it three times, now it goes to a redirect page that does require the period.
Here in Australia, a ram 1500 nearly hit me on my bike by going the wrong way around a roundabout too. They didn’t even slow down to check.
I slammed my brake and swerved.
If they can’t even successfully navigate a right hand turn on a roundabout, they shouldn’t be here. And the drivers park and drive them at a lower standard, instead of higher too
And the IGA near me is full of large utes during lunch hours using 2-3 parking spots each.
Also, I actually drive a Jeep Unlimited (which is actually a fairly big car). And yet, never had an issue fitting into any of these spots. I’ve literally seen though ute drivers who pull into a spot badly, and not even try to fix the issue. Considering buying some stickers to throw on their windscreen.
The two utes?
Only a cuck, drives a truck.
Something like that?
Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.
But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.
I don’t think that will work. The comparison has been made but doesn’t seem to phase people. I think IED might be only the solution, since the people who drive these don’t seem to care in the least that they are a lethal danger to everyone in a smaller vehicle/on a bike/pedestrian.
Speeding. No one thinks big of you.
The automatic linking feature breaks with a URL ending in a period.
Thank you, fixed.
I really think driving these things around should only be legal for work purposes.
The loophole is many who own their own trades business still drive them for personal uses because they can’t afford (don’t want) another car.
They’re only common because of tax laws. Everyone else in the world uses box vans for most “work” purposes, and if not box vans, the same frame with something else in the back. Pickup trucks have their uses but they’re worse than vans for most trades.
If only the people who drove them for legitimate work purposes owned them, even as their only vehicle, it would be a huge number off the roads.
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Fuck these big ass trucks, should be illegal!
They should reduce the height on parking garages to exclude them.
They have a steel beam barrier at 6’2" at the entrance to my hospital parking and some broski rams into it every week.
Why does he keep coming back?
It feels so good when he stops.
Agreed, but that’s probably an issue for fire safety. There’s probably some regulation that mandates a minimum height.
And some vans designed for transporting people with wheelchairs/powerchairs could be blocked out.
And vans in general, they’ve only gotten taller and taller in recent years. Many look like a good gust of wind’d knock them over.
I dunno, I’ve met parking garages I couldn’t safely walk through at a modest 6’5"
There should be an oversized vehicle parking area in the most inconvenient section of the garage, and if your vehicle is too big, you have to go park there.
