As someone who works in heavy industry as a crane operator, regularly totes around big rigging, outrigger pads, and all of the gear and tools required for my trade, and then drives onto job sites that look like apocalyptic motocross tracks with deep mud, gravel and sand, I need a full size pickup. You can’t take your car where I need to go.
That said, I’d guess 95% of full size truck owners probably drive theirs to the office parking lot and back, and use their bed for nothing but groceries. It’s a cultural thing, that what should be a specialized work vehicle is co-opted as a hillbilly luxury/status vehicle.
So, don’t hate all of us. I’m guessing you need the roads and bridges and infrastructure and apartment buildings that I build. I need a truck to make it happen.
It’s always easy to spot the difference between cars that are used for heavy duty and those that are used to make someone feel all rugged and heavy duty while farting in their specially crafted office chair because regular chairs make back all hurty hurty.
Hey, if I see a pickup that looks like it’s doing work (some grime, work equipment, etc.) then more power to the owner. If it looks like it just got the third layer of wax done, maybe not so much.
Hey now, just because my truck works doesn’t mean I don’t keep it looking slick. Then again I’ve only had it a year or so. I’m sure the job will eat it up pretty quick.
I drive pickup because I’m a farmer. The comment here about pickups being terrible terrible at most jobs obviously comes from someone who doesn’t use one for work. Are they really suggesting I buy three different vehicles and the environmental costs associated with producing them? I don’t even like traveling for fun. My pickup is a 99, so it’s not even that tall compared to what they sell now. I can do all my deliveries, pickups, and even took the back seat(4 door) out for more cargo space.
That being said, modern pickups have gotten too bulky without any gains 8n function. A dream build for me would be an 80s era square body with a modified Tesla rear end.
If we really want to start comparing, SUVs don’t offer any more function over a classic station wagon. Build one of those with modern crumple zones, materials, and make it an EV and you have the perfect around town errant vehicle.
I drive pickup because I’m a farmer. The comment here about pickups being terrible terrible at most jobs obviously comes from someone who doesn’t use one for work.
But they are terrible at most jobs. Your job just happens to be one of the few exceptions.
And even that might be debatable, I don’t see most farmers here use those things, they drive a tractor for the heavy shit and a small car for most othet things. But that might be a regional difference, I’m not a farmer myself.
Either way, those huge pickups have no business in a parking garage.
Small farm. Pickups are good for quickly hauling tools, fertilizer, seed, etc… to fields. Huge, thousand acre fields might use tractor trailers with flatbed or liquid holding tanks. We have a box truck for big deliveries, but a pickup will be good for small deliveries. More fuel efficient and easier in irregular parking lots then a box truck. I’ve also made a grease pumping setup on skids that I use to pick up wvo. That can go in most pickups.
When I have to drive though gridlock in NYC, what I see are yuppies in SUVs that wont make eye contact while they sit their asses in the middle of the intersection. I’m surprised those even fit in parking garages. They should really put a height limit on privately owned vehicles in cities.
Yeah, to the person below saying “vAn gUd, tRuCk sToOpId”, how many times have you had a truck bed full of soil, gravel, or a drop in fertilizer spreader, or a sprayer vessel, or any number of things that you can’t put in a van.
Don’t hate trucks. Hate the yuppies who drive them. They’re the same people wearing big belt buckles in the suburbs who’ve never seen a fucking cow irl.
The comment here about pickups being terrible terrible at most jobs obviously comes from someone who doesn’t use one for work.
It probably comes from someone who doesn’t use one at all. If you actually use it for work, this comment is not about you. The top 3 selling vehicles in the US are massive pickup trucks, and have been for decades.
There are simply not that many farmers. They’re being used to commute back and forth to the office because they’re comfortable and they “like riding high above everyone else”.
I totally agree. I have a friend who works with forresty and managing a very large area. She has one 8f those big range rowers and it gets absolutely beaten and used heavily every day driving through the terrain while hawking chain saws, tools and gear.
Tho I still find the size to be somewhat comically and unnessearyly large and inelegant.
For domestic use it’s even more stupid
A van is usually the same truck chassis driveline and engine as it’s comparable full-size truck, like, and econoline 150 is an F-150 on a van body. Only I can drop my 500lb spreaders directly off the hook of my crane into the bed. Literally same vehicle with different capabilities. Id have to torch a big hole in the top of your van to do that.
Jesus Christ you’re relentlessly toxic and ignorant. The rigging I’m talking about are the cables hanging below my 8000lb load block, rated for 60,000 lbs. they regularly lift close to their capacity. With other rigging, I regularly lift an upwards of 120,000lbs.
Contractors don’t spend 4 million dollars on a crane that has 3/4 million lbs of counterweight just so I can swing the rigging around and look cool.
I don’t give a shit what your rigging lifts the payload you mentioned would go in a trailer just as well as it goes in a tray you ignorant red neck shit.
As someone who works in heavy industry as a crane operator, regularly totes around big rigging, outrigger pads, and all of the gear and tools required for my trade, and then drives onto job sites that look like apocalyptic motocross tracks with deep mud, gravel and sand, I need a full size pickup. You can’t take your car where I need to go.
That said, I’d guess 95% of full size truck owners probably drive theirs to the office parking lot and back, and use their bed for nothing but groceries. It’s a cultural thing, that what should be a specialized work vehicle is co-opted as a hillbilly luxury/status vehicle.
So, don’t hate all of us. I’m guessing you need the roads and bridges and infrastructure and apartment buildings that I build. I need a truck to make it happen.
It’s always easy to spot the difference between cars that are used for heavy duty and those that are used to make someone feel all rugged and heavy duty while farting in their specially crafted office chair because regular chairs make back all hurty hurty.
Hey, if I see a pickup that looks like it’s doing work (some grime, work equipment, etc.) then more power to the owner. If it looks like it just got the third layer of wax done, maybe not so much.
Hey now, just because my truck works doesn’t mean I don’t keep it looking slick. Then again I’ve only had it a year or so. I’m sure the job will eat it up pretty quick.
I drive pickup because I’m a farmer. The comment here about pickups being terrible terrible at most jobs obviously comes from someone who doesn’t use one for work. Are they really suggesting I buy three different vehicles and the environmental costs associated with producing them? I don’t even like traveling for fun. My pickup is a 99, so it’s not even that tall compared to what they sell now. I can do all my deliveries, pickups, and even took the back seat(4 door) out for more cargo space.
That being said, modern pickups have gotten too bulky without any gains 8n function. A dream build for me would be an 80s era square body with a modified Tesla rear end.
If we really want to start comparing, SUVs don’t offer any more function over a classic station wagon. Build one of those with modern crumple zones, materials, and make it an EV and you have the perfect around town errant vehicle.
That puts you in the like 1% minority of pick-up owners
But they are terrible at most jobs. Your job just happens to be one of the few exceptions.
And even that might be debatable, I don’t see most farmers here use those things, they drive a tractor for the heavy shit and a small car for most othet things. But that might be a regional difference, I’m not a farmer myself.
Either way, those huge pickups have no business in a parking garage.
Small farm. Pickups are good for quickly hauling tools, fertilizer, seed, etc… to fields. Huge, thousand acre fields might use tractor trailers with flatbed or liquid holding tanks. We have a box truck for big deliveries, but a pickup will be good for small deliveries. More fuel efficient and easier in irregular parking lots then a box truck. I’ve also made a grease pumping setup on skids that I use to pick up wvo. That can go in most pickups.
When I have to drive though gridlock in NYC, what I see are yuppies in SUVs that wont make eye contact while they sit their asses in the middle of the intersection. I’m surprised those even fit in parking garages. They should really put a height limit on privately owned vehicles in cities.
Yeah, to the person below saying “vAn gUd, tRuCk sToOpId”, how many times have you had a truck bed full of soil, gravel, or a drop in fertilizer spreader, or a sprayer vessel, or any number of things that you can’t put in a van.
Don’t hate trucks. Hate the yuppies who drive them. They’re the same people wearing big belt buckles in the suburbs who’ve never seen a fucking cow irl.
Farming and construction are the only fields that need a truck. Everything else can be done better with a van, yeah.
It probably comes from someone who doesn’t use one at all. If you actually use it for work, this comment is not about you. The top 3 selling vehicles in the US are massive pickup trucks, and have been for decades.
There are simply not that many farmers. They’re being used to commute back and forth to the office because they’re comfortable and they “like riding high above everyone else”.
I totally agree. I have a friend who works with forresty and managing a very large area. She has one 8f those big range rowers and it gets absolutely beaten and used heavily every day driving through the terrain while hawking chain saws, tools and gear. Tho I still find the size to be somewhat comically and unnessearyly large and inelegant. For domestic use it’s even more stupid
I’ve done heavier towing in a van than that Ford can legally come close to. A digger in the back with 3.5 tons of equipment on a dual axel trailer.
No one needs these pointless wastes if space. They’re a fashion statement not a working vehicle.
A van is usually the same truck chassis driveline and engine as it’s comparable full-size truck, like, and econoline 150 is an F-150 on a van body. Only I can drop my 500lb spreaders directly off the hook of my crane into the bed. Literally same vehicle with different capabilities. Id have to torch a big hole in the top of your van to do that.
Oh, and my full-size pickup gets 24mpg.
Just ignoring trailers which is the whole claimed purpose of those ridiculous yank tanks.
Oh and the hydraulic crane on my trailer had no issues getting stuff inside my van.
I’m talking about a 300 ton lattice boom crawler crane with 210’ of boom, we’re not talking about the same thing here kiddo.
I too need a 300 ton crane for 500 pound objects.
Right tool for the right job.
Jesus Christ you’re relentlessly toxic and ignorant. The rigging I’m talking about are the cables hanging below my 8000lb load block, rated for 60,000 lbs. they regularly lift close to their capacity. With other rigging, I regularly lift an upwards of 120,000lbs.
Contractors don’t spend 4 million dollars on a crane that has 3/4 million lbs of counterweight just so I can swing the rigging around and look cool.
I don’t give a shit what your rigging lifts the payload you mentioned would go in a trailer just as well as it goes in a tray you ignorant red neck shit.
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