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[–] 233 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There's diagrams that show the visual impairments such trucks have. They are worse than semi trucks and even an Abrams tank.

https://i.redd.it/kftiwovba73b1.jpg

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  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I don't get how these people even feel comfortable driving something where you can't see the road that's in front of you for 10+ meters out. I just wouldn't feel safe, there could be any kind of obstruction you can't see on the road from 10m away but will still fuck up your day and/or life.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    As a truck driver I get it. It's nice to see more. The tradeoff isn't worth it and not why they do it. I would bet my paycheck they never take it off road either. Which would be the only good reason to raise something that much. Truckers have a good reason to. They have giant engine and transmissions that need to last for the industrial work involved.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    cabovers are almost exclusively used throughout europe and asia. it's only america and australia that tends to use the big bonnet american style trucks.

    there no real reason for it

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    To be fair the regulations on vehicle length and older infrastructure makes the cabover popular.

    American style trucks(long nose) get better mileage on longer hauls than the blunt nose design. They also provide more cabin room. As a final note American audiences are conditioned for the long nose design and it's difficult to find the imports here.

    Having driven both I think they both have merit. In Europe an American truck would be impossible to maneuver in towns.

    So that's the "real reason for it".

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    A lot of trucking is long-range. America is fucking big and not everywhere is served by ports, railroads, and tributaries.

    Those roof-scoops and curvaceous hoods aren't just for being sexy. They greatly increase aerodynamics and with it, range.

    The important thing is that it requires specialized training and a license to drive something with such poor visibility. The pickups, any 16yo kid can legally drive.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    There is a reason for it: Regulations that limit the overall vehicle length. The EU has a lower maximum than the U.S., so it favors the cabover design, which allows a longer trailer. The U.S. had lots of cabover trucks on its roads until it increased the allowed length, when truckers took advantage of the easier maintenance and better ergonomics of the bonnet design.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Agreed, but some people drive that way. It's their road, get out of the way. I had a 1996 Dodge dually long ago for pulling a trailer, and its visibility wasn't very bad, except for around the damn side columns. I got into the habit of leaning forward and back as I would turn so that I had some idea of what was being blocked. At one point we had considered upgrading to the big trucks like the F-450/F550, and I got into one to see what it was like. I could see EVERYTHING. I was like, holy shit, this is luxury.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Side columns like that should be illegal. I was driving my stepdad's '21 Silverado 1500 crew cab a few weeks ago and was totally blown away when I almost pulled out in front of someone coming from the right in a big ass truck.

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    [–] 112 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Should require a CDL to drive something that big. It's a bus sized front end.

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  • [–] 106 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My redneck ranch family has run over so. Many. Of their own dogs

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can't reconcile the exterior with interior pictures. From the outside it looks like the inside of that truck should be the size of a large sitting room with a Chesterfield and some end tables.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yank tanks are multiplying on this side of the Pacific now too. I’m 6’3” and feel like a little toddler next to one. Just as easy to run over, no doubt.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I got ran over by a car while on my bike at a roundabout bike & pedestrian crossing: I'm so glad it was a normal sized Opel instead of a tank. Only got a bruise on my butt and even my bike just needed the front wheel realigned. If it was a F-whatever monstrosity I would've been hurt much, much worse.

    Personal vehicles in cities should be limited anyways and public transportation/pedestrian & biking paths encouraged. I hate the dust rising from stud tires grinding asphalt.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How else are they going to advertise their tiny cocks without public indecency charges?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How else are the owners supposed to compensate for their 2cm dicks?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The insidious thing about the small dick energy is that it isn't about the efficacy of the unit. They don't care that they "can't" provide pleasure (which, let's just not dig into that for arguments sake, but I would contend the existence of lesbian sex sort of contradicts the whole correlation of dick mass to pleasure output, let alone the whole can of worms that is all the other miriad of genital and gender configurations). They view sex as transactional, performative, superficial, and perhaps even competative. It's all about them. Even if they had a supreme dick, they couldn't weild it. They're stunted, and frightened. They don't understand even basic communication, which I would argue that sex is at it's core, just a type of communication. That kid in class that mocks the topic because they don't understand it and that frightens them? So they try to tear it down and belittle the topic? Those are the kids that grow up to drive these trucks, and evidently run nations.

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I agree but I think that car hoods should be higher. If you're hit by one of these you'll die slowly of organ pulverization. It'd be better to be hit in the head and die quickly of head pulverization. It's just that the poor truck cannot reach that high so it needs to be BIGGER. Maybe stick some spikes on there too, and have an optional extended package for saw blades!

    (/s in case it wasn't apparent)

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Add in the amount of times I've seen people drive cars where their seat height puts their eyes at about 2 inches over the steering wheel.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The headlights are at exactly the height to blind everyone who isn't also in a truck as well. I'm convinced that auto manufacturers do this on purpose to force everyone into a size arms race.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Big vehicles lile trucks in America have lower emissions requirements, which makes them cheaper to make and they can sell them for a higher profit to these insecure dumb fucks, so it's in their interest to make and sell large trucks

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Disgusting cars, honestly.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Who ever wrote that meme text has definitively been huffing too much exhaust.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    For the civilised counties that's 1.75 meters.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Pretty sure it is, here.

    Btw, what model is it?

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I just want my slightly smaller than a Tacoma sized truck with a small diesel that gets like 28 mpg. Is that really too much to ask?

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