Comparison left vs right for a craftsman who doesnt know which one he should buy:

  • l/r same bed size

  • r lower bed for way easier loading/unloading

  • r less likely to crash

  • r less fuel consumption and costs

  • r less expensive to repair

  • r easy to park

  • r easy to get around in narrow places like crowded construction sites or towns

  • r not participating in road arms race

  • l You get taken serious by your fellow carbrained americans because ““trucks”” are normalized and small handy cars are ridiculed.

So unless you are a fragile piece of human, choose the right one.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I agree with the idea with the exceptions of towing capacity, passenger capacity, and possibly (probably) bed weight capacity.

    But if you’re one guy that doesn’t tow anything and needs to haul a few sheets of plywood, sure, it makes sense.

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      1 year ago

      The percentage of trucks on the left I see actually doing that is functionally 0%

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        1 year ago

        Oh that may be true- but if we’re talking to working craftsman and builders as opposed to “anyone buying a truck” I think it matters.

        Most truck buyers don’t need one. I don’t have a truck but I do have a 3600lb pop up camper that we tow with a Honda pilot. It’s basically the exact same car as the Honda Ridgeline pickup but with a hatch instead of a bed. It’s also a kid and vacation mobile.

        In my case I’m not a craftsman but still couldn’t get by with the little truck because of towing and passenger capacity, that’s all I was saying.

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          Yeah for the whole 3 times a year you tow that thing.

          That’s just it: 99% of the time these vehicles are not being used to their capacity.

          And people think that 1% somehow justifies the entire other 99%

          It’s laughable.

          • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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            Well first off, we go camping 3 seasons a year, sometimes twice a month. Renting a car for camping, sometimes hundreds of miles away a dozen times a year doesn’t make any financial sense. Second, it’s our only big car and it’s used every time we have to pack the kids, dog, and luggage to go somewhere. My daily driver is a 4 door Subaru, not a Tahoe.

            If I only need to tow or pack a vehicle once a year, I’d definitely consider renting, but that’s just not the case. I just hauled about 1000 lbs of lumber from home depot today- it literally gets used for its purpose on a weekly basis.

            I’m not arguing the point there are lots of pickup bros that just run around in a king ranch solo and spend their weekend polishing it and taking all the parking spots at the mall, I’m just saying I really don’t think it’s really 99%. I see hundreds of tradespeople and weekend home improvement warriors on a daily basis.

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              1 year ago

              Every pickup bro think pickups are justified. And they trot out all the same points you just made.

              I offer you challenge: count every pickup you see, and record whether or not it has a load. I actually did that for a month, and its literally below 1% usage.

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                Every sedan bro think sedans are justified. And they trot out all the same points you just made.

                I offer you challenge: count every sedan you see, and record whether or not it has all seats filled. I actually did that for a month, and its literally below 1% usage.

                That’s what you sound like.

                Yes, too many people have large trucks that don’t really use them for their purpose, but some of them are not that different from a sports car or sedan when not hauling a load for mileage and shouldn’t be expected to be used 24/7. SUVs are probably worse overall than trucks when it comes to excess unused space and mediocre mileage, but nobody complains about those.

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                  1 year ago

                  but some of them are not that different from a sports car or sedan when not hauling a load for mileage

                  Sports cars sure, but sedans? Buuuuullshit.

                  and shouldn’t be expected to be used 24/7.

                  Why not?

                  SUVs are probably worse overall than trucks when it comes to excess unused space and mediocre mileage, but nobody complains about those.

                  Are you serious, people complain about oversized SUVs all the time. Please.

                  You’ve now reached the tone of desperate justification that people with oversized vehicles always fall back to.

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            I think ideally most people would prefer a smaller car as a daily driver and a larger one to be used as needed but insurance and registration costs wipe out any gas savings. And renting a vehicle for long trips is often prohibitively expensive. So that leaves this option of using a car that 99% of the time is not necessary.

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          1 year ago

          I see a truck towing something maybe once a week. I see hundreds of trucks a day. 1/100s < 1%

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          We don’t need a lot of anything bar food, water, oxygen and sex. I’m all for sensible cars Vs that monstrosity on the left, but as hobbies go - boating is not the most offensive.

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            The problem I have with boating is that it takes a number of related environmentally irresponsible “wants” and chains them together into a series of linked “needs”. One “needs” the truck because they have a boat. That’s expected to be the end of the discussion, but really it isn’t because it is fair to continue to question the whole chain. People are bad at distinguishing wants and needs, or alternatively people are very good at presenting their wants as needs when a justification is needed.

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        Well now you know one person who uses their huge truck for the purpose it was designed for! 350 owner here. If I didn’t actually need it, I wouldn’t have it. I use it to haul pallets, trailers, sometimes I hotshot. Right now I’m restoring a house built in the 1870’s and it’s cheaper to haul the equipment myself rather than pay someone to deliver it.

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            1 year ago

            The payload capacity is likely too low (never mind having cab space for a secure tool storage separate from the exposed hauling area in the box)

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            No, I can’t. I can haul more than 35k lbs with my truck, what’s the max for the one on the right? I doubt you’d be able to fit a pallet, let alone the 3 the bed of my truck can hold. I can pull a semi with my truck, can the one on the right do the same? What about a 5th wheel?

            There are very valid reasons to own the truck on the left. And more often than not, if you’re going to spend $90k on a truck, it’s because it’s needed.

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      I agree with the idea with the exceptions of towing capacity, passenger capacity, and possibly (probably) bed weight capacity.

      How often are people really towing that much though? Maybe a couple times a year at most? It would be cheaper to just rent a big truck for the few times you need it per year than have that absurd truck as a daily driver.

      • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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        Well like I said craftsman and home builders do all the time. I’m a weekend home improvement warrior and I need to haul or tow a few thousand pounds of stuff at least once or twice a month, sometimes more. We have an suv with a tow hitch for that but the idea is similar.