The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
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The stock trucks these days are bad enough.
Aftermarket lift kits for those trucks should be not be legal on the street. Those should be getting impounded on sight, but their redneck owners would probably start shooting cops if that happened so it won't.
People with lift kits and cops overlap significantly.
The cops are the owners.
Yeah, I'm in the market for a truck for trailering and having a bed as we get into some home improvement projects.
I feel the need to only look for older trucks (1990-2000 model years) most for reasons listed here. That plus so many trucks today are short bed with HUGE cabs. I will never understand why people want basically an SUV with a truck bed.
Because they want a pickup truhk for status but it doesn't actually fit their needs.
They still make single cab normal beds, but mostly for company fleet vehicles. You'd probably have to look at those.
A lot of tradespeople outside the US use a Sprinter van or Ford Transit, but that may not be as suitable for a "throw the junk in the back" use.
Hopefully repeating this message will get through to a population segment that is fundamentally selfish.
It won’t, if anything I’ve been seeing even more of these around since gas prices shot up…
I've even seen more people rolling coal, because you know, $2 L diesel = freedom!
It's chilling looking at the animations in the article. The left turn one shows how a pedestrian can be killed in even what should be a pretty low-speed collision. This is exactly what happened about a year ago to a cyclist at a busy intersection where I live, and I had always wondered how such an accident could prove so deadly?