• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    While my truck does have a short bed, it pulls my 24,000lbs/11,000Kg tandem axle tilt bed trailer just fine. Which is more important to me than hauling groceries or people with it.

    Plus the 4-wheel drive matters a lot when the roads have 6+ in/15cm of snow and it’s only 2 miles/1.7 nautical miles to the nearest paved and perhaps plowed road or when I need to drive down a logging road.

    ***The metric and navel conversion of measurements was done for those people living in Lubbock Tx.

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        7 months ago

        The nearest mall is a mere 50 miles away and I never go there. And yet I get painted with the same “fuck pickup trucks” brush right along with those that buy them as a mall cruiser.

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          7 months ago

          Quick stats check and less than 30% of truck owners use their truck for truck things, more than 30% don’t at all, and the rest might once in a while. So 60%-ish plus basically use a truck as a daily driver and not for hauling, work, or towing.

          You are in the minority.

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            7 months ago

            If I am in that minority, 1/3 is a pretty large minority. That’s a pretty wide brush to paint with don’t you think?