The new trade deal between the European Union and the U.S. means that pedestrians from Lisbon to Helsinki will be endangered by big, American-made trucks.
We always had a truck on the farm growing up, back then it was just a practical day-to-day tool.
It was small, dirty, scratched, dented, peeling, among other things.
It also smelled like cigarettes and only tuned to AM radio baseball, but whatever.
Sure, it was still higher and bigger than a car but also so much lower than these modern absurdities. And SO much more practical.
When you have to load the bed a million times, those new lifted pavement princess truck are just dumb af.
It towed more than most of these things too, although I’m pretty sure nobody even looked at how much it was supposed to haul on paper.
There are now city version of these emotional support trucks with about the engine size and towing capacity of my now retired hatchback.
You can lose sight of a grown up adult in the huge blind spots that it has.
100% impractical.
It’s dumb as fuck.
I grew up on a small farm. We had two farm trucks, and old ford, that was so old, I don’t know it’s model name, and was rarely used. Our most used farm truck? A Chevy S-10. It was blue and white. Not only did I drive it around the yard when I was around 12, I remember going with my guardian to haul grain in it. A 50mile round trip, with the bed full of grain. It’s a small truck and it was our best farm truck.
There are now city version of these emotional support trucks with about the engine size and towing capacity of my now retired hatchback.
Aww yea… Hauling grain… 😅
Our trips were much shorter, but I remember towing 10-tonne grain cars, sometimes multiple, with the old Dakota.
It surely wasn’t rated for this, but the thing just refused to die.
I still can’t take some people seriously, those who’re afraid of putting a scratch in their beds by putting literally anything in them… sigh
Hell yeah, a Dakota is about the same size! May not have been rated for it, but did the job.
I remember my uncle’s in the 90’s talking trash when extended cabs became popular. They had this word they used… yuppie, I believe. Funny how things change and stay the same
We always had a truck on the farm growing up, back then it was just a practical day-to-day tool.
It was small, dirty, scratched, dented, peeling, among other things.
It also smelled like cigarettes and only tuned to AM radio baseball, but whatever.
Sure, it was still higher and bigger than a car but also so much lower than these modern absurdities. And SO much more practical.
When you have to load the bed a million times, those new lifted pavement princess truck are just dumb af.
It towed more than most of these things too, although I’m pretty sure nobody even looked at how much it was supposed to haul on paper.
There are now city version of these emotional support trucks with about the engine size and towing capacity of my now retired hatchback.
You can lose sight of a grown up adult in the huge blind spots that it has.
100% impractical.
It’s dumb as fuck.
I grew up on a small farm. We had two farm trucks, and old ford, that was so old, I don’t know it’s model name, and was rarely used. Our most used farm truck? A Chevy S-10. It was blue and white. Not only did I drive it around the yard when I was around 12, I remember going with my guardian to haul grain in it. A 50mile round trip, with the bed full of grain. It’s a small truck and it was our best farm truck.
Emotional support trucks is so spot on imo
Aww yea… Hauling grain… 😅
Our trips were much shorter, but I remember towing 10-tonne grain cars, sometimes multiple, with the old Dakota.
It surely wasn’t rated for this, but the thing just refused to die.
I still can’t take some people seriously, those who’re afraid of putting a scratch in their beds by putting literally anything in them…
sigh
Hell yeah, a Dakota is about the same size! May not have been rated for it, but did the job.
I remember my uncle’s in the 90’s talking trash when extended cabs became popular. They had this word they used… yuppie, I believe. Funny how things change and stay the same