What's the point of driving a f250 to the grocery store or to a restaurant if they aren't hauling or towing something? Isn't this just a waste of gas? I have a coworker that does this and than complains about Biden increasing the price of gas(I laugh inside with my 40 mpg vehicle). But seriously why is this so common in America?
Why does it bother you so much? Are you intimidated by them? Go be a clown somewhere else.
Being your size a truck makes sense. But also lost people I know don’t want rocks or furniture anywhere near their brand new trucks. You’re in the minority of drivers that actually needs one.
For everyday use (driving to work, grocery store) a truck is one of the worst vehicles. Poor fuel economy, expensive compared to small cars, hard to park, more dangerous to everyone else on the road. There's cases a truck is the ideal vehicle, working construction, hauling supplies.
But 99% of the trucks on the road are the because the driver thinks it makes them look cool. There are worse ways to spend money, but a lot of better ways too.
There are millions of people who live in rural areas that need a 4x4 truck to get to work or go to town. The rural roads aren't able to be plowed as well as city roads when it's snowing and the wind is drifting the roads shut to small cars.
You might see people driving trucks, and think they're doing so to look "Cool." But you actually don't know anything about them or what their needs are.
If you don't want a truck then don't buy one. But don't judge others if you don't actually know their reason for owning one. You city boys need to take your car out into the countryside during a blizzard. Maybe then you'll learn why so many people drive trucks.
So if a truck is driving and pulling something or using the bed it’s a waste? That’s like saying someone driving a sedan on a nice sunny day is a waste because they could be driving a motorcycle to work.
Those who own pickup trucks are the first people folks like you call to move your couch. My son owns a pickup truck and gets calls from friends and family regularly for help moving or hauling something. He also does landscaping as a side gig. Should he have a separate vehicle when he’s not doing that? Not everyone has a little office job and drives their little self to go sit in a 68 degree office every day.
What's the point of driving a f250 to the grocery store or to a restaurant if they aren't hauling or towing something? Isn't this just a waste of gas? I have a coworker that does this and than complains about Biden increasing the price of gas(I laugh inside with my 40 mpg vehicle). But seriously why is this so common in America?
For everyday use (driving to work, grocery store) a truck is one of the worst vehicles. Poor fuel economy, expensive compared to small cars, hard to park, more dangerous to everyone else on the road. There's cases a truck is the ideal vehicle, working construction, hauling supplies.
But 99% of the trucks on the road are the because the driver thinks it makes them look cool. There are worse ways to spend money, but a lot of better ways too.
The last sentence reveals yourself....You are a mind reader and think people get trucks to look cool...You are clueless....
A sentence can reveal you. You can reveal yourself. A sentence cannot reveal yourself. "Yourself" is reflexive.
What's the point of driving a f250 to the grocery store or to a restaurant if they aren't hauling or towing something? Isn't this just a waste of gas? I have a coworker that does this and than complains about Biden increasing the price of gas(I laugh inside with my 40 mpg vehicle). But seriously why is this so common in America?
Car manufacturers make a lot more money with trucks. Pump them up to monster trucks and you make even a butt load more. That's make the average Joe feel a little better about their unimportant existence as a minion for a huge corporation.
Same reason soccer moms drive giant SUVs. They look cool, they feel safer cause everyone else drives a monstrosity too. It's funny cause most truck and SUV owners are anti mini vans, which are safer and have way more passenger and cargo space. But they don't look cool.
It's simply compensation. Men used to get into sports cars like Corvettes to compensate but in contemporary times that's morphed into large, loud, smoky trucks. Every time I see some suburban guy in one of these I can't help but think, "sorry about the small package, buddy."
I always LoL when truck owners say they haul stuff like once a year. I just rent a truck from Lowe's for $20/hr the few times I've needed to move furniture.
What's the point of driving a f250 to the grocery store or to a restaurant if they aren't hauling or towing something? Isn't this just a waste of gas? I have a coworker that does this and than complains about Biden increasing the price of gas(I laugh inside with my 40 mpg vehicle). But seriously why is this so common in America?
I bought a Chevy 3/4 ton diesel to haul my 5th wheel when I retired. But when I sold my trailer after 15 years, I kept the truck. I like it. It’s very comfortable and the visibility is great.
I don’t use it much locally but I have chosen it over my car for a road trip. I have about 190,000 miles on it.
I always LoL when truck owners say they haul stuff like once a year. I just rent a truck from Lowe's for $20/hr the few times I've needed to move furniture.
55mph and about 1.5h from the nearest home depot, 2h to the nearest lowes. there's a lot of snow and dirt roads to travel-on to get anywhere but here. trucks are super useful. (in this context).
plus, there's a semi-humanistic ying-yang quality to a truck that feeds the spirit. (of the in and the out that it carries.)
but 1) sadly, i do not own a truck at the moment -- the station wagon is more family-appropriate at this point in time, plus it still fits 8' boards, plus -- and to the real point -- my wife wins and i lose; and 2) i've always enjoyed the light-weight and mid-weight trucks of yesteryear.
i also do not understand -- and, in fact, with prejudice and a small heart, feel a slight meanness for those who drive -- the loud, monster machines. i find slow, quiet, and small to be beautiful. and so i can't help but feel a reflexive offense i work to rein in. and so i rein it in.
the ram heavy duty diesels and their ilk make sense to me, as most folks with those are hauling granite, sheds, or boats. but the volume inflation of the -- u.s. american? -- vehicle is astonishing. the old broncos were big, granted, but even every model of subaru over the last two decades has let its belt out a few notches. and the honda civic of today is not at all the old folk singer's cross country flier.
which is a rambling way to a loose point: what option does one have, if one wants a truck at all? want an old ford ranger or pre 2001 toyota tacoma -- or even those tiny mazdas -- but built today? i'm first in line for a light-weight truck like that. just give me a few tons towing, and a 6' bed, and i can make it work.
"i met all my wives in traffic jams; there's just something women like about a pick-up man."
It’s a cultural thing. The rural white non college educated male needs a truck or they’re not considered a man by other rural white non college educated males. There’s a few exceptions but this is 90% of it.
For everyday use (driving to work, grocery store) a truck is one of the worst vehicles. Poor fuel economy, expensive compared to small cars, hard to park, more dangerous to everyone else on the road. There's cases a truck is the ideal vehicle, working construction, hauling supplies.
But 99% of the trucks on the road are the because the driver thinks it makes them look cool. There are worse ways to spend money, but a lot of better ways too.
There are millions of people who live in rural areas that need a 4x4 truck to get to work or go to town. The rural roads aren't able to be plowed as well as city roads when it's snowing and the wind is drifting the roads shut to small cars.
You might see people driving trucks, and think they're doing so to look "Cool." But you actually don't know anything about them or what their needs are.
If you don't want a truck then don't buy one. But don't judge others if you don't actually know their reason for owning one. You city boys need to take your car out into the countryside during a blizzard. Maybe then you'll learn why so many people drive trucks.
I’ve been driving down rural roads in Canada for 4 years now in sedans. the first winter I even had a rear wheel drive hemi charger. if you know how to drive in conditions you shouldn’t be flying off the roads. A truck or SUV is certainly safer but you don’t need a truck to get a places.
HappyJack wrote: You city boys need to take your car out into the countryside during a blizzard. Maybe then you'll learn why so many people drive trucks.
I live in New Hampshire and we have plenty of blizzards, but I and many of my fellow bleeding heart liberals drive Subaru Outbacks. They're way more versatile and comfortable than a smoky gas guzzling pickup truck and they handle even better in the snow and ice.
It’s a cultural thing. The rural white non college educated male needs a truck or they’re not considered a man by other rural white non college educated males. There’s a few exceptions but this is 90% of it.
This is it. Most of them don't need a truck, are wasting their money, and no one besides other white under educated high anxiety rural males give a fk. Small minded clowns who can't get laid.
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