Emotional Support Vehicles

It's $100 minimum to get anything delivered from the hardware store a mile from my house. It's $20 rent a pickup from U-haul for their 4 hour minimum. I do that maybe 4X per year. I drive a little electric car now, but when I had a Prius V (station wagon one) with the seats folded down I could fit as much in there as a light duty pickup.

man I miss the s-10 form factor. now everything is absurdly huge.

Horse shit, you want a base Colorado? I'll get you one 8% off MSRP. I'll only charge $1000.

Meanwhile I learned I could fit a 100lb propane tank in my sedan.

I’m sure that guys a chump. But it might actually be better than having them roll around in the bed.

Still only carries 1 person.

Beautiful! Ford F550

Would love to haul my sleds in that

Heck people carry more on their bicycles that many ever carry on their trucks.

I get timber/PIR/plasterboard from the builders merchant, and also take that plus garden waste to the tip, 10+ times per year, in a 4 seat car that weighs under 1 tonne.

Anything truly massive, they just deliver it to me.

The day I discovered that a 2.4m 6*2 would fit inside was a very good day.
As was the one I bought roof bars.

This sub is weird...

I was about to say: if a trunk would fulfill the same purpose, the bed is not useful: then it's just a less protected trunk.

So I assume correcting for that, this stat would also be >70%

Smart car will do the same and it doubles as a golf cart, why don't we have more smart cars? Oh wait, lots of micro dicks...

Primary sources? We don't do that here 🛻🛻🛻

I Google-searched "site:unbelievablefactsblog.com truck", which turned up the right page. It linked to this site, which in turn links to this very detailed page.

Pinging @marduk@lemmy.sdf.org and @toaster@slrpnk.net.

The source is this survey/article by axios: https://www.axios.com/ford-pickup-trucks-history

Saw a truck the other day with Harris and Coexist stickers and was so confused.

Yeah, but that's a quality car, that doesn't count.

I used to have a Chevy Sonic and I hauled so much stuff in that car, full size fridges, front load washing machines, lumber, 14" canoe. Summer and winter offroading at a solar farm jobsite for the province of Ontario, prolly 2-4km deep

I have 4 acres of land and I tow my mower down to my land every weekend to clean up. So I use my truck all the time for towing and I also haul things at least once a month. Not all truck owners do it just for the truck. If I didn't need a truck I wouldn't own one.

I just rent a pickup truck from U-Haul for $21 per day. I'm never gonna need it more than 1 day.

Web page was actually an image! Whoops! (I get this error a lot)

Replace the bluejeans with a codpiece, and you're going somewhere.

Towing really. Have more than one quad to transport? Full pickup, one quad in the box and the other in a trailer, or one bike and a camper etc...

What does a van offer that a small truck wouldn't? Other than opportunity for passengers. Since its a work vehicle passengers isn't generally a concern since basically anything you can buy can handle atleast 2 people. Covered space? Get a cap. Need more Clearance for a fridge you intend on plugging in right away? take the cap off. Over sized item in more ways than one like a couch or bed? you can drop and remove the tailgate. I have yet to see a small van that can be all that customizable?

Edit:

You can down vote but you should add to the discussion. Can we get the numbers on people that have vans and aren't using them to capacity or carrying anything. How about the amount that drive passenger cars that are driving 2+ occupant but serves no more utility than a bicycle that's faster.

To add to the numbers my house hold has a 4 door sedan and a pickup. But we are dual income with no kids. What should I drive instead? so I live 30 miles from work because who is so lucky to work next door and wife is 20 miles fron work. I also do things like move fire wood and mow lawns and... Really do you want a list of all the things I would have to rent a truck for? I have a cap for my bed and have pulled it to move larger stuff. Just because you dont have to do a thing or have a thing or what ever.... Doesn't mean there is t a use case which doesn't involve using someone else's and just using your own.

Modern SUVs can haul most things these days including boats, small utility trailers, and small campers.

I would say more like actively discourages small cars by encouraging large vehicles and allowing them lower standards (emissions etc)

But they don’t

https://images.app.goo.gl/TZKcXMWH9XGrZQVv7

Why not just keep it in a marina where you want to use the boat? Not snarky, genuine question since I don’t know much about boat ownership.

Here's a video of a Miata launching a boat at a ramp.
https://youtu.be/JvA0ctoUD4A

Theres A difference between a pan lying around in your lockers and a 3t vehicle driving around on public streets and putting people who walk at risk to be run over, because you don't see shit.

Your usage rate is like literally a hundred times that of the stats listed (assuming they're true). The vast, vast majority of truck owners would be better off with a regular car and renting a truck from Home Depot, Uhaul, or whatever local business does that sort of thing.

But do you only use your cast iron pan once a year or less?

Your cast iron pan isn't driving you to use a shitload of extra fuel (electricity or natural gas) in this case, while it hangs on your wall waiting to be used.

But having a giant truck instead of a low-pollution economy car does exactly that. Imagine if you had to lug your cast iron pan on your back everywhere you went. (Say if we were still migratory, as a society.) Then you'd be rethinking your cast-iron pan choices, if lighter options were available.

Emotional support trucks are much like emotional support guns. The only thing they're supporting (other than facilitating rampage killers and suicides) are emotions.

TBF, because I think about this sort of thing, yes, here in the states, our boys are trained that they have to keep up manly appearances, we worship sports figures and deride intellectual prowess as super-villainy material, and these are issues for which ES Trucks and Guns (and rampage killings) are a symptom.

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let’s explore the bad world of Cars!

From the sidebar. If you don't like it, block the community instead of complaining and typing in full caps with excessive punctuation like some boomer on Facebook.

It's to promote and advocate for alternatives to car dependence.

It’s actually mainly about hating car-dependent infrastructure. The stuff that makes cities impossible to conveniently get around unless you’re in a car, because cycling distances are too far and force you to mix with fast-moving cars due to lack of separated paths. And public transport is expensive and slow, if it exists at all, because cities choose not to invest in it and even if they wanted to it’d be more expensive for them than if cities were planned better.

You know what you can do if you need to haul something and don't have a truck?

Rent a trailer!

It's even nicer to have that big item delivered and still come out on top in gas savings.

Here are a few options to remedy this rare problem.

1. Uhaul truck rental.
2. Ask a friend. family member or neighbor to help you out with their truck or ask to borrow their truck for the task at hand. (Fill the gas tank before returning it to ensure they'll be willing to let you borrow their truck again, when you need it.)

Idk your life but I've yet to be in a situation where a minivan wasn't good enough.

The other 99.9% of the time you get better efficiency, space for 8 people and a smaller car

Really that summarizes this whole debate. There are absolutely people that don't need it but buy one for a litany of bad reasons. Then, there are entire swaths of territory where having a pickup is just plain necessary. Live up north in a rural area? You probably have both a trailer and a PU to tow it because you need to be self sufficient, and have a lot of long distance hauling jobs.

Rental.

Also your comment remind me of people having spare car.