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Visiting southern US for the holidays. There was a truck idling to warm it up yesterday, it was 47F out. We saw the driver walking up as we passed so proceeded to have a conversation about big strong manly men in their big strong manly trucks being able to handle “a bit of a chill”.
Why does a van need wheels that big?
To grab pedestrians and cyclists and drag them under. This is illegal in most states except West Virgina and Alabama, but elsewhere the police do not enforce the law.
In rain, the bro wheels throw up spray making visibility dangerous for other vehicles. But fuck them, because MURICAH.
In WV this would fail inspection. The rule is water cannot pass off fender wells onto the tire. People do just swap out before inspections though. There are no good reasons to need wide rims and tires as far as I know.
Wide tires spread the weight over a larger distance so they are helpful over softer terrain, like a grassy field…but that truck never leaves pavement. They are only helping him have higher rolling resistance and burn more gas.
So you don’t see the guts of pedestrians/cyclists/kids being run over.
In use cases duallies are for towing and weight distribution. They help with steering a bit, but for the most part that’s for handling very heavy things.
In this case big truck look more manly go BRRRRRRR
The guy that owns that truck would panic if he had to change lanes with a trailer.
Dualies at least have widened fender wells and jist in back. They are nice if you actually haul 2tons+ (F150s say they can haul 2tons, but I’d never risk that much, 250s were created for a reason)
This appears to be a 250 or 350 with some bewildering off road modifications. No serious trail guy would take duallies off road. But he’s got off road tires and a trail light system on the front bumper. Unless he’s taking a full size camper up the mountain this guy is just an idiot. Actually that’s true in either case.
If one of those big trucks runs you over then sue the manufacturer. I’m sure if someone dug deep enough they’d find the old vehicle size standards document out there somewhere.
Monster trucks are street legal there?
If it’s anything like the small town I live in, you can’t legally have tires that extend further than your fenders, but it’s entirely unenforced.
Folks love their lift kits and oversized tires
Bumpers are supposed to be at a certain height for impact with other vehicles, but nobody enforces that either
This is fake the bmw isn’t double parked and the truck isn’t parked at a 45°
The duality of mankind on full displaym
Pun intended?
I wish I could repossess and crush any trucks like this that aren’t being driven through a swamp every day.
When I see something like this, I agree with my country 72% taxation on gas. If they had to pay $8 per gallon like us, they wouldn’t buy those monsters
In California they often reach over 5$ a gallon, and will drive them.
Google says California gas and sales tax together are only about 71¢/gallon.
While we understand gas is expensive in California, relative to the rest of the us, it’s not expensing globally and 71¢/gallon is not much tax globally. The tax really needs to be much higher, for the cost of the roads and other costs to society. Google also claims this tax covers 80% of California road maintenance, so I’d argue it needs to be 25% higher. But that’s only maintenance, not new construction, and doesn’t at all cover the harm done, so really ought to be much higher
California has the highest state gas taxes in the us so the rest of us are much worse.
Gas taxes that don’t even cover road maintenance are too low.
Gas taxes that don’t cover the externalised cost of emissions are also too low. But I don’t think any jurisdiction taxes that way.
My bigger objection are people using this argument to try to add unfairly high EV taxes
No, EV taxes don’t need to cover road maintenance if gas taxes don’t, and no, EV taxes don’t need to be extra high because of a weight penalty, when ice pickups weigh more and the difference is a rounding error relative to big trucks
But I do believe in vice taxes as a way to guide consumer choices. The most fair choice is to tax all road vehicles by miles and weight, without regard to technology, plus a vice taxes on gasoline (like we do with alcohol) to account for the damage it does to society and to discourage use.
Agreed.
`miles * weight * small number
They still buy them and then bitch constantly about how expensive gas is.
No, they’ll bitch about gas prices being high because of Biden.
Thanks Obummer
Those tires and lift kits cost them 20-30% more fuel, but engineering is for lefties.
And the BMW is much better and nicer car to drive as well
I don’t get how mods like this are legal. The original truck was bad enough, but wow.
They often aren’t. For instance the wheels protruding past the fenders too far is likely not legal. They just pull off the wheels and put on a stock set when the yearly inspection is due, then put the big ones back on when it passes. Cops don’t bother ticketing for this stuff.
Saw a similarly beefed up car take up 4 spots once in a parking lot. They pulled forward and so took up both spaces front and back, but also was too wide and so just parked down the middle. Only way it gets worse is they park diagonally to take up even more spaces.
Hey! Have some compassion! Fragile egos need a lot of protection…
Yeah that’s his emotional support vehicle…
Its a gender affirming vehicle
It’s not just the size that gets you. I mean yeah it’s stupidly dangerously large. The even bigger problem I find is none of them can drive it. None of them know how to turn with a truck. None of them can’t manage to back up in a truck. The Lord knows all of them think they have to every single time and it takes fucking forever. Too much car for their little dicks to handle.
Don’t judge … that poor man needs that large vehicle in order to accommodate his extremely large penis and enormous testicles … the loud engine sounds are to warn others of his condition and let everyone know everywhere of what he has to live with … that poor man … it’s a real problem
What of the twat in the beemer? We just gonna leave him out of our hypotheticals?
I bet he’s never used a turn signal in his fucking life.
If the dough in the Bremerton hits me I fly over the hood. The dickless wonder in the truck can’t even see me walking and I’ll roll under the car and die.
