• hdsrob@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’m in a small city, with a lot of rural / suburban areas. I’m often delivering 15+ minutes away from the city center by car. A bicycle wouldn’t be able to get to any of these places in any reasonable amount of time, and there’s also no shoulders or bike lanes on most of these roads so it would be seriously dangerous.

    We also do a lot of large grocery delivery orders (50 - 100+ items) so there’s no way those can be done via bike or motorcycle.

    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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      4 days ago

      WELL for a big grocery delivery – Yeah. That makes sense. A lot of sense.

      I was imagining like. A couple take-out boxes on the shotgun seat and someone driving a whole-ass car for those lil’ boxes.

      And it sounded like whatever the driver would get from this haul wouldn’t even cover gas. To say nothing of the environmental angle.