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In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, letβs try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
The communist Justin Trudeau wants to tax carbon π‘
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there should be a law that if a car goes past a certain size it's officially a public transit and people can barge in and expect you to drop them off along your ride.
I've been saying Canada is just Diet US. Credit where it's due, they elected the lesser dumbass. Also, healthcare. Good on y'all. Obviously Canada is better than the US but my fellow Americans act like it's the promised land or something. The cost of living is still to damn high, and they still have the same right-wing populist idiots we have. Also, I get our bills and coins suck. Dead old white man and all but how is the fucking royals supposed to be better? I think fascist monarchs are way worse. To any Canadians offended by this, please don't be. It was not my intent to offend you and I very much realize I am throwing stones from a glass house here. Love you guys!
I was diagnosed with cancer last year. I am now cured. Cost to me, $0.
i just like how silly and absurd this truck looks
its like a satirical cartoon truck meant to poke fun of enormous trucks, except its real and unironic.
Itβs got nothing on an F650 super truck. Iβve driven past one on I35 outside of San Antonio, TX.
For a size reference, hereβs Doug DeMuro, 6β3β (1.9m):
this legit looks like a semi, but for people with tiny genitals
These are medium and heavy duty trucks, they're like semi-lite lol (semi-semi?)
They make a lot more sense in literally any configuration other than pick-up truck.
Example:
"Semi trailer" actually refers to the trailer itself, not the tractor. a "full trailer" has it's own steer axle, think like a hay wagon. a "semi trailer" has it's steer axle provided by the tractor pulling it. a "cart trailer" is like 2 wheeled buggies put half the weight on the propulsion device, often a horse. Anyways, when people say "semi truck", they either don't know or are referring to the fact of what it pulls, not itself....use it to pull anything else and it is no longer a "semi tractor"
True , forgot about that. Then again, how often do you see that type of truck pull anything other than a semi trailer? I don't think I ever have
Where I am, they are often used to move farm equipmnt, but not on a trailer. They strap 2, 2000 lb concrete blocks to the frame over the axle, for traction, and then use them for moving pin hitch farm equipment. "A trains" are also not "semi" trailers, least the back one, and the triple trailers you see UPS and hay farmers use in the west half are full trailers.
Ah yeah, I only ever see full trailers in this configuration:
Not really common practice to hook them up to a conventional "tractor" (we call it a "saddle" truck here), usually they're hooked up to the type of truck where there's a fixes trailer as well (as seen on the picture)
Might just have something to do with length limitations in the EU compared to the US (it's also why we have cabovers rather than the cool looking US trucks)
More like a commercial vehicleβ¦.
Trucks actually started selling more when the first started mimicing the looks of semis. I think dodge was one of the first to adopt that mindset which was basically everything on the front end gets bigger.
the tiny dicked people are all around us then!
How many bananas tall is Doug?
Does canada have really lax limo safety laws? i recall hearing about stretch SUVs in the US that killed like entire friend groups during prom in the US because there's absolutely no regulation of these things in some places.
Ah yes the Ford F9000 Pedestrian Pulverizer
my friend from ontario says:
"This might be for folks who work on oil rigs (Edmonton is close to several), a vehicle like this means they can travel as a full crew. It's still terrible but that might explain it."
They could get a crew van, fit more in it, and still fit in a standard parking spot.
Probably also quite a few thousands of dollars cheaper.
Fuck you, vans are gay and you're stupid cuck. /s
That said, I recently saw a guy that bucked the trend and pimped his family van instead of going full truck. Lowered suspension, wider wheels, hot vinyl and a spoiler. Looked pretty good tbh.
caaar
"Gas prices are getting out of control"
~ This guy, probably
I'm keeping my hopes up that this thing would not be street legal in my country.
Stanz: It was all fine until dickless parked his truck. Mayor: Is that true? Venkman: Yes, this man has no dick.
Too much truck, not enough dick, as they say.
Slide under the midpoint with a battery powered angle grinder or a sawzall and cut 3/4 of the way through one side of the frame. Then you just let physics do the rest when they hit a good hard bump.
Xanthan gum and muriatic acid will make a nice corrosive paste that might do the trick if you're into edging with your sabotage.
I didn't know they made buses with a cargo bed.