Pickup Truck Guy: A Brief Psychoanalysis
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- Dudes who drive pickup trucks: easy to dunk on, but there is A LOT more going on here ---- some of it hilarious, some of it disturbing. But, strangely, in reviewing the comments on my most recent video on this topic, maybe slightly encouraging? Let's explore the mindset of pickup truck guy.
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Actually I find the comments in these kind of videos (see also Not Just Bikes, etc) are often worth reading. They're often witty and/or have something worthwhile to contribute
No comment. 🚊
What I never understood was that truck owners buy a vehicle that admittedly is macho and appealing, but gets terrible gas mileage, then the owners complain about the cost of gasoline.
There has to be some crazy overlap between obsessive gun/2nd ammendment nuts and truck dudes. These obsessive gun nuts own guns that are completely unecessary for any form of self-defence (overkill is not part of their vocabulary), but hilariously they complain about the cost of ammunition. Both of these items help reaffirm their fragile masculinity and become part of their personalities.
It's the same people.
Cause and effect comprehension requires adult level thinking.
and then they also do things like accelerate toward red lights and slam on the gas when they leave the stop sign
That's the whole point of being a mindless consumerist. Anything that gets in the way of your vain lifestyle is someone else's fault. Gas too expensive? Biden's fault. Can't afford your payments? It's a plot by those bastards at the bank who've supposedly been kicked out of 109 countries and want to replace you with someone significantly less Caucasian for reasons that are never explained.
Instead of trading in their monstrosity (payments of which are probably $1k+/mo unless its being financed beyond 7 years) for something more practical, they'll spend another few thousand dollars blinging it up, by having it lifted, adding bull's balls to the trailer hitch, covering the back window with a LET'S GO BRANDON mural and illegally modifying the engine so it can "roll coal".
Or can't park it anywhere
CityNerd has found the infinite engagement glitch.
Nothings stronger than a truck driver’s desire to defend their manhood. Infinite comment dislike glitch
@@chromie6571engagement is engagement.
Whistlindiesel also used it to hell and back, huge lifts and fragile egos go hand in hand
While being a bottom for guys who drive those trucks. LMAO
@@Radi0he4d1 Weird how he deleted every video of his that I actually liked… that widest dualie ever video where he had like a 10’ spacer, monster truck tire, another 10’ spacer, another monster truck tire. Now that one was funny!
I love how the sterotype is that "truck guys" are insecure and their immediate response is to prove it in the most boring way possible.
I mean they're basically saying the ultimate jab that drill instructors do. Apparently, the name they use is Gee.
People with pickups shouldn’t show up to work for these people when they need a contractor.
His wife's boyfriend is currently driving a pickup truck😂😂😂
@@KRYMauLIt's Jody in the US
@@Chris_at_HomeIt's pretty obvious that contractors aren't who he's talking about. I have two diesel pickups for my business, which I own and operate by myself, and I couldn't agree more with the criticisms. Guys who don't need trucks just drive the prices up for people like me.
I was in the 5th grade when I realised most 'adults'' were still children with the same chip on their shoulders when they were kids.
My theory is when it comes to us guys, Nobody really advances past age 12 or so. We get better at handling stress we get better hold over our emotions. We learn more complicated concepts, but we’re still over grown big kids who like to show off and think farts are funny. Scratch that, we KNOW farts are funny!
Took me until I was 35 to realize that, good on you!
Bingo
Took me a few years ago when I was in my mid-20s that I came to this dreaded realization. The sooner the better!
@@Mortablunt Don't forget about all the dirty sex jokes!
The “4-5 empty seats in your car” guy is soooo close to getting it.
LITERALLY lmao. thats why i don't drive a car 99% of the time 😭
Something to think about
Yeah. The “you shouldn’t have that because you don’t need it crowd” and the “everyone should get that because they need it crowd” should have to agree on a compromise to let the “self responsible and need to get away from you nuts crowd” get a part of the country where we can be left alone. Sheesh.
I was going to mention the empty trunk, but what is even worse is that most pickuo trucks have cabins with just the same passanger capacity: 2 on the front, 3 on the back.
What if instead of 4-5 empty seats, you had 4-5 empty seats AND an empty truck bed?? Checkmate liberals
"Emotional support vehicle" I'm sorry but I'm stealing this one.
i did. best line
You're borrowing for the good of your civilization, that's not stealing.
Are we also stealing 'yank tank' then?
Applies to bicycles too.
That's probably an apt description of my motorbike 😅
One point I'd like to make is that there simply ISN'T a small pickup anymore. If you want something of a reasonable size, you are looking at a 20+ year old truck.
I miss the small pickups.
Ford Maverick
This needs to be mentioned more about how the "market"...that is the control over what is actually available to buy is often pushing people TOWARD getting a pickup truck. "You can get this base model micro sedan that we know won't meet your needs even though you REALLY want a wagon, but over here we've got a 4 door pickup that's basically a wagon! And look how it actually has features and things you expect in a modern vehicle! It's the clear choice!"
It drives me up a wall how few wagons there are to choose from. Obviously I keep buying Subaru wagons, but man, I look at euro wagons all the time of different sizes and just drool. There's so so so many more options that we could have in America, but...nope.... small cheap crappy car or gigantic ultra mega deluxe luxury truck... that's nearly all the options. WTF?
@@itsallminor6133 To be fair the new Maverick is basically a UTE. Which could still be very useful but it lacks the solid axle and some of the other things small trucks used to offer that you simply can't get on anything that isn't much larger now.
You can thank your government for that one. Emissions laws are very weird in the US.
So...wait. Where, exactly, am I supposed to hang my truck nuts? Check and mate.
Maybe below your belt, as you obviously don't have a pair.
@@jakeeddy9256 - Is it that you didn't detect the sarcasm or...
On the front of an MX-5, to give it a nice moustache.
On the back of a bicycle. I've seen that one before.
@@IvanIvanoIvanovich - Hmmm
My favorite description of the clean, shiny, never-hauled-anything, luxury pickup is "Parking Lot Princess."
"Pavement princess", "Monstrosities", "Death Machines", and "Emotional support truck" are my terms for these things
I've been calling them air haulers for decades.
Just the other day, I saw a truck so freaking wide and long one the parking lot that even though the front of it was already in the middle of the road, the rear was occupying half the parking space behind it. Moreover, it was EXACTLY as wide as the parking space, so anyone parking on either side wouldnt be able to open the door.
These vehicles are completely unfit to run in the city.
Yeah, it's such a good description
That is a good one, but I'd never use it IRL. The way things are these days one would definitely get ventilated for such a burn.
As someone who drives a full size pick-up truck for work (I'm a contractor) the guys who make driving a truck their personality are insecure about themselves. They want to be perceived as "macho" and "tough" but they hardly ever use their trucks for doing any dirty work. Don't even get me started on lifted trucks that never see the off-road
Also most of these 'pick up' guys are just kind of dumb too. They have little to no self awareness and just project on everyone else
And a lot of pick-up truck owners that talk about going off road in actuality are only going on gravel roads that my sedan can go on.
@@Old_Ladies For my reference, are these gravel roads traversable by bike?
@@celiashen5490 Probably with 25c tires.
@Old_Ladies I'm quite positive that if they ever saw a single dirt road in Vermont during mud season, they would shit their pants times 5
@@nmpls Thanks!
Of all the times I've seen a pick up truck in my life, only 1% of the time did they have anything in the back.
In WV its probably 25%, usually a big trailer. The Jeepers are the stereotype here that attracts the truck bros in other places.
The psychology behind pick-up truck owners has always been an anomaly to a lot of people. Whether you like or hate them, everyone has experienced at least 1 pick up truck owner either personally or on the road with the same stereotypical cocky, arrogant, angry behavior and has wondered what their issue was.
I consider trucks are more about escapism than a masculinity autotraining. It's big, spacy, has A/C, TV and pitch black tinted windows so it's more like a safe space for a person who's afraid of facing anyone they secretly hate, be that hobos or ethnic minorities
It is just good marketing honestly. Everywhere else in the world guys love sleek fast and sporty cars that handle well and are fun to drive.
Only the usa has been exposed to decades of relentless truck marketing because of a regulatory loophole for usa manufacturers.
bout the same as an audi or a beamer, too.
You are saying nothing. It's such a broad overgeneralization of one of the largest categories of vehicles. The reverse could easily be said, we have all seen atleast one pickup driving the speed limit on the righthand lane paying g attention to the road.
@@ferretsmiles If there wasn't a pattern being collectively recognized, such a stereotype wouldn't even exist. Truth hurts.
"Yank tanks" is definitely the most insightful distillation of US culture from a foreigner that this American has heard in awhile.
As an Australian, ‘Yank Tanks’ formerly meant large sedans of US original, think Lincoln Continental or the like. But it is so apt for a pickup truck! 😜
When you see truck or a big SUB in Europe, is usually an American staycationed nearby.
They are overwhelming Puerto Rico and other islands.
@@jeretso A definite downside, in my book.
@@dagramirez You'd be wrong on that, in fact, Ford just launched the F-150 lightning in Europe, and all other versions are already available there, and they're selling.
The lady not wanting the bed scratched is too relatable… in my 20s I was moving from one apartment to another and me and my gf asked her dad if he could help us move some large furniture with his huge ass truck. Dude refused insisting it would scuff the bed liner. The fucking BED LINER! Dude the entire purpose of the liner is to get scuffed instead of the bed like dude wtf
Maybe he was waiting for his bed liner liner to come in. 😂
As a cyclist, vast majority of my scary car moments involved a pickup truck. Seemingly buzzing me or trying to roll coal. Most shapes and sizes, from the clapped out modified trucks to the brand new luxury models. Meanwhile the 4Runner/Tacoma folks are usually polite.
I don't even have to describe the vehicle to coworkers that bike to work. Fortunately I don't get as angry, and I try to encourage others to stay completely cool. I used to publish rear and front facing camera views. I'm not running cams anymore. What I still do is apply a little more pedal to ensure that I'm very close to them at the next light. Gee I wonder why they so frantically check their mirror as they are trapped in a box? Yes I've been buzzed by sedans, and I'm happy to put my right grip over their mirror at the next light.
Well, there's at least one good thing about large trucks then. Maybe you'll keep your kiddie toys off of the road used by real people.
@@charlesc3734 lmao cope.
@@charlesc3734
Imagine being offended over other people riding bikes
@@charlesc3734 most cyclists never even try to go in regular traffic lanes unless they don't have any other option. we know full well we're not welcome there, even if traffic laws say we are allowed to use them. most of us are just trying to stay out of the way and get where we're going safely. the least you could do is just let us use the bike lanes in peace.
I used to own one of those large full-size trucks, and eventually sold it after two years of ownership to purchase a smaller sedan. Saved over $200 a month on payments and my insurance went down. You know what I did when I moved to a new apartment and needed to get all of my furniture there?
Rented a U-haul for $18 a day + mileage.
I wouldn't go back for a minute.
What a strange concept. Renting a vehicle fit for purpose for the one time you actually need it.
My Civic has never failed to do a job I needed out of a car thus far. Even if it was incapable of doing a job then I could just rent a truck/van for the amount of time I actually need a larger vehicle.
I just upsized from my small sedan (had it for 10 years but needed a bit more space for kids) to a subaru outback so I actually can move by seat back enough with the kids seats. Its good to have the room but I def miss the parking flexibility and nimbleness of the sedan. I've always found those who drive a pickup truck who weren't using it frequently to haul equipment or other things to be kind of weird.
U-haul is the real MVP
EXACTLY! It's not like renting a U-Haul is even expensive!
As a linesman we use trucks for work but once you see me leave work I’m either in my civic or on public transit. No need for luxury trucks unless you don’t value your money
My mother said she knew someone who cashed out their 401K to buy a $70K pickup truck. That was a waste of money.
Yep. I've driven F350s on the clock for my entire career. The second work is over, I'm in my 2dr Toyota hatchback because if I have to drive, it might as well be fun and efficient.
Extremely based, and probably very comfortable financially as well
None of us are judging the true work trucks. If you drive a large-bed vehicle that carries oversized or bulk loads, especially if your truck is more mud than paint? I wish you well and hope you picked the one that's least terrible on gas.
CityNerd, I adore a deliberate speaker! Big trucks/Hummers, not a favorite of other drivers. Every time I see tiny tires, I 😂.
Here in Minnesota, practically everyone drives a truck, usually with ear splitting exhaust. My own little town just shakes with this racket all day long, and it’s worse on weekends. I read an explanation in a New Yorker essay that seems about right: these obnoxious truckers are trying to substitute roaring exhaust for their loss of real economic and political power.
I drive a 2022 Ford Maverick, which is essentially a truck shaped Ute. The only time in 2 years I would have benefitted from having a full size truck was when I had to make 2 trips to fill up my friend's garden with dirt.
I also get 35+mpg and can maneuver around a lot easier than in a full-size truck or suburbitank.
Im really glad small trucks are making a return as I think 80-90% of truck owners could get by with a light-duty vehicle like mine and save themselves a lot of money.
My 93 basic Toyota truck literally disappears in a parking lot surrounded by monster trucks. But it hauls more in one month than most ever do.
I'm starting to think my Mazda 3 has hauled more than some of these monster trucks ever have.
There are so many trucks on the road that actually do get used. But you’re conveniently forgetting them
I have seen more A segment cars hauling trailers than F150/R1500 trucks with full truck beds.
I'm curious what other people's experiences are.
but lightweight trucks get washed away in flood waters, while full sized trucks typically don't. When cars and small trucks get washed away by the force of the water, the occupants can drown. It takes a full sized truck to withstand the flow. Here in Tucson, that's the issue during monsoon. Our roads and streets turn into rivers, and full sized trucks are the closest we have to amphibious vehicles.
It's not that it can haul more. It's that you will use it to haul more
My next door neighbor has a SIlverado. He uses it primarliy to commute to his job 20 miles away. He lets it warm up for 15 minutes in the morning so he doesn't freeze his tush. After he leaves, I check on his wife.
I assume the check up is for signs of carbon monoxide poisoning. Very considerate of you.
I needed that laugh. Thanks, guys.
John Redcorn
People who think "$85,000 toy = no cheating" have been cucked by the auto industry 😂
@@jfolz Just a neighborly offer of mouth to mouth "resuscitation"? 💋 👀
Aside from the insidious truck plague, there are also the same brand of people driving Mercedes and similar superfluous “luxury” cars in Germany who think you are the scum of the earth if you bike or walk.
I think it's that those kinds of people gravitate towards those vehicles, not that the kind of people who own those vehicles are like that. Personally, I'd prefer the comfort of my A6 and S6 when I have to take trips from Dallas to Austin, San Antonio, or Houston instead of walking. While they aren't the most fuel efficient, I can't complain about 30-36mpg vs. trying to walk that distance.
That said, I would never buy them new. 60-100k is insane.
These people are driving now Mercedes GLC Coupés or the BMW X line.
Because a normal car is too small.
My 2003 Chrysler Town and Country Limited minivan has provided more utility to my Family than a truck ever could.
Thanks to two important features, a removable center console and removable 2nd and 3rd row seats, and a 4x8 space in the back with said seats removed, my minivan can haul larger loads and carry more people more comfortably than most pickups on the road.
The 4x8 space in the back is perfect for anything from plywood to Sheetrock, and even appliances like dishwashers, dryers, ovens, and the like. In addition, with the center console removed you can fit a healthy amount of 10' sections of pipe and wood, and if the front passenger is willing sit weird, you can even fit a 12' piece of trim or pipe diagonally over your shoulder. My family used this to flip 2 houses, and build the inside of a huge addition to our house.
And because seats are removable, you could also put them back in, and now you can carry up to 7 people (we didn't have a second row bench seat), and that is 7 people COMFORTABLY. Unlike an SUV like the Tahoe where 3rd row passengers are sitting 3 inches above a raised floor in, the back seat of the minivan had full legroom, as well as individual rear air vents. And as a Family of 4, we ended up using that comfortable 3rd row all the time bringing people along us on road trips.
Not to mention, the minivan is basically a car. It doesn't stick out of parking spaces, you have huge visibility, and it gets pretty good gas mileage too.
I have owned 3 Dodge Caravans and YES, with the STOW AND GO seats, they are great for hauling a lot of stuff, furniture etc.
And they are good for hauling around stuff if you have a small business. Everything is LOCKED INSIDE and hard to steal vs a PICKUP where everything is EASY TO STEAL
This comment section will be civil
Lol, I'm more interested in these comments than the video!
Of course
Wrong! How dare you!
(am I doing this right?)
They're predictable "soy" "libural" "Prius driver" "city slicker". Identity politics hard at work!!
Just like how ill be civil with his wife👉👉(love you citynerd)
I live in Colorado and constantly hear the excuse, "I need this stupid truck for mountain roads". I drive a Crosstrek, which is basically a slightly elevated station wagon and often drive scary, beat up, dirt mountain roads to go hiking. You know what cars I see when I get there? Usually other crossovers, sedans, and the occasional Jeep. Never 7-yard-long trucks that would require a 5 point turn going up each switchback with such high visibility that driving off a cliff would be inevitable.
i take my civic up those roads, lol
Crosstrek is fine for very light off roading. It will never make it where I live.
so true. i drive a lexus gx470 (a 4runner basically) that's 100% stock and never see lifted pickups on the mountains or deserts as far out as I go. and when i get there, there's always a pruis anyway LOL
I live in Switzerland. Poseurs in the city have US style pickups. People in the mountains have Subaru breaks, or old Steyr-Puch Pinzgauers from the army. In the mountains, you need a car that can actually turn…
@@MatthiasWiesmann Swiss pick up trucks don't have steering? That explains things
Regarding these giant suburban status pickups, I wonder if the oppressive blandness of middle-class suburban life itself might be a big part of what drives people to own these monstrosities that are marketed to give them a false sense of rugged individualism that is missing from their office-bound, HOA-regulated daily lives. Maybe it makes up for not being allowed to paint their house the color they want or landscape their yard the way they want.
I loved owning my truck, but had to trade it in when repairs got too expensive. While I miss the utility and height, I dont miss the parking and general headaches of driving a large vehical
A friend of mine, a brilliant scientist who was doing really important work in the world, finally relaxing, was killed along with his girlfriend when their car was hit by a giant pickup truck that was clearly not a working truck. It was a decorative truck. It was the kind of collision that would not normally have been fatal for anyone involved, if not for the additional mass and the height of the bumper. I really loathe suburban commuter pickup trucks now. He was so freaking cool... And just a few years away from retiring, and there's no good reason why he's dead now. None at all
I saw a video about big vehicles 5 crash tests once. Every single crash test is based on a big vehicle like a truck or auv and not a small car like a civic. They had several small children lay down in front of the truck for about 20 feet, and the driver couldn't see any of them (vehicle was off, in park). It's like in medicine women's treatments are based on studies in men.
@@jennifertarin4707 10-11 children sitting down (as they do when they're playing with chalk and toy cars) in a bigmobile, versus about 2 in a modest sedan. Two seems a bit close, so as for personal responsibility (tm)? You can train a kid to stay 5ft away from any one vehicle. You can't train a kid to stay 25ft away from every vehicle.
My father-in-law is in the early stages of dementia. My mother-in-law insisted on getting him a large pickup to “keep him safe”. I was like WTF!?! Get him a car with all kinds of safety features. Not a multi-ton weapon.
And the horrible irony is that auto insurance rates for people in practical cars is likely significantly higher because of the proliferation of these needless monstrosities on the road.
I’m so sorry
Had a co-worker roll up in their giant truck one morning. Another co-worker walks up to them and goes, "Sorry, about yer penis." and then walks away.
😂😂😂😂😂😂love this response
Hello from England 🏴!
Great comment. Your co-worker was definitely thinking what I think of Giant Truck drivers…mind you we don’t have many of them in the UK. Thankfully.
Fantastic lol
That's funny but I hope the co-worker that made the inappropriate comment fired on the spot.
@@bloodycrepeyou must be fun at parties 🤡
The difference between the empty seats in my car and your (general) empty pickup bed is that I actually have friends who sit in those seats once in a while
Lying won't get you anywhere. You have ZERO friends.
Mr car has a 2 liter engine. A Silverado has a 7.1 liter engine
Ouch, you went for the jugular didn't you?
Personally I drive a truck. I understand that it doesn’t make sense but I just enjoy it and I can afford it. I use it for hauling occasionally, although I must admit it is otherwise useless to drive a truck. I’m the end, it’s just because I enjoy driving a truck. I respect your opinions and if I’m honest, I do agree with a lot of your points.
I wouldn’t expect the vast majority of commenters nor the creator of the video to show you the same deference.
It is just weird that guys all over the world enjoy either sleek fast well handling cars or silent cushy luxury cars. A truck really doesn't do any of that and mostly would be something your boss made you drive for work.
Only the usa has been relentlessly exposed to truck marketing because of a regulation loophole for manufacturers and only in the usa guys seem to experience driving a truck enjoyable or "fun".
For hauling a van is more practical and efficient, for offroading an offroad vehicle is just better and more fun, for speed and handling a hot hatch or fast sedan is far far superiour and nowdays for luxury a big sedan or high up suv is the far better option.
Trucks only really make sense for farmers really, which actually where the only ones who used them traditionally.
@@sickofitall8486 nah they seem fine and honest and, most specifically, did not put people down who dont own trucks. they are not the "truck guy" i know truck guys, they could not have produced a comment of that clarity.
You're using an truck as a truck! Don't feel bad because you know what you have and using it correctly!
@@rogerk6180why do none of you understand the point of having something because it's just cool or you like it. you can justify people with ferraris or lamborghinis but you cant justify someone who has a truck just because "it's not fast or comfortable" ?? doesn't make any sense. trucks look cool to a lot of people. they're fun to make fast and they can sound cool too. not every truck guy is the fake country insecure guy you all think of. at least half of truck guys or girls really just like them because they're cool. why that's so hard to comprehend for some people is beyond me
Back in the 60s, my dad went to visit family in "the old country." His grandfather just put his sheep in the back seat of his sedan when he had to move them.
omg did the sheep scratch the truck bed?
Cool come pull my 7 ton
Definitely a sigma
@@wizard_of_poz4413 Your sheep weighs 7 tons? What kind of bioengineered horror is this?
@@hedgehog3180 wtf are you even talking about dude
The guy who said that empty pickup beds are like keeping the 4 seats of your car empty most of the time actually makes another good argument for why cars are terrible
Even funnier when they actually have a row of empty seats in the back!
Wait til this guy finds out about houses where four of the rooms are empty all the time
I was thinking that my bike has just the one seat! Although I do sometimes feel a little silly when riding the box bike without the 2 kids, backpacks, and diaper bags. Then I remember that a ton of people are riding around with empty car seats, you just can't see them.
right? nice argument for why cars should be smaller in general
@@CityNerd This made me think of minivans and all of the empty seats and when we're going to get a Minivan Soccer Mom Psychoanalysis video, but I don't think there's enough of them that have their ego wrapped up in their vehicle to care and flood your comment section. I think the female counterpart to "truck bros" would be "Crossover Karen". I've met enough of them in my life. They become a parent to 1 child, think they need to have seating for 7 at the ready, but are too cool to drive a minivan, so they buy a minivan packaged in a less space efficient design.
NotJustBikes made a good point: every argument that anyone could use to justify ownership of a pickup truck, could also be used for owning a van. But there are 100 privately owned pickups for every privately (non-commercial) van*, and something else has to account for it, something not based on utility.
* At least where I live and drive.
"at least people won't notice it's empty while you're driving it around" is gold
Real truck owners drive 80s-2000s trucks until they have 300k+ miles and either rust the frame out or break something not worth fixing. 50k minimum to get into a new 1/2 ton truck is laughable!
Truth
dad put 229k on a 04 durango then we sold it to a buddy with nothing more than a shadetree head gasket switch. damn good truck that was, and it didnt take a ladder to get inside it
And it has a cloth bench seat, crank windows, and 2-40 air conditioning (ie 2 windows down @ 40mph).
My dad still uses his '95 F150 with an extended bed for hauling. Still runs just fine, recently used it to move out of my apartment. New trucks with those comedy 4' beds would have been utterly useless for moving a mattress or furniture.
Lol naw thats sometimes true but sometimes the extra torque and horse power is needed for hauling. Also having a reliable truck is important because work cant wait and diesels are super expensive to fix
The comeback nobody was asking for, but we all needed.
I cycle commute to my job most days and also own a truck. A paid off truck I've owned for 20 years and put 190,000, miles on. A 2004 Chevy Silverado 2500HD crew cab.
Can’t believe it’s been almost two years since that video. Your channel growth has been crazy to witness!
I work in trades, and I had a very jarring moment when I was putting an 8' long spirit level onto my roof rack because it wouldn't fit comfortably in my car. Another tradie nearby said "oh maybe you should get a truck." Like, what, so I can move my stupidly long 8' spirit level one time in 3 years? That mindset seems profoundly alien and silly to me, but I think that is honestly the line of reasoning a lot of truck guys use. "I better drive around in this inefficient and unwieldy vehicle all the time in case I need to make use of this useful feature one time"
I had a co-worker in northern MN who was complaining about how much it cost to fill her big truck. I commented that my sensible midsize sedan costs less than half what her's costs.
"Yeah, but what do you do when it snows? You can't go anywhere," she replied.
I pointed out that she has seen me drive to work in snowstorms, and that I live much further away, so have to drive much further in snow and still always make it to work.
"Yeah, but my driveway has an incline and I really don't want to have to shovel it."
I tell her so does mine, steeper than yours, and with a corner half way. Most of the time, it isn't an issue. When I do have to shovel, it takes me maybe an hour, two or three times a year.
"Exactly, I don't have time for that."
So, she's willing to work at a service station for $8/hr, but wont take take few hours a year to save thousands in fuel and maintenance...
It probably wouldn't have fit in his truck either, an 8ft bed is rare.
I do HVAC/R service and even my boss doesn't seem to grasp that I leave the van at the shop unless I'm on call because it costs BOTH of us less for me to commute in my '21 Spark than the '21 Express 2500 work van. Given my commute is only 26 miles, it's still about an hour each way because of so many dudebros in lifted pavement princesses.
Exactly why I don't buy a truck. I would love to have a truck two or three times a year when I need to haul something large, but that's it.
I never worked in a trade but worked a pool job. I would do cleaning, filter install, and pool construction. I swear if we had a pickup truck and not a van we wouldn't be able to haul half the stuff we kept in the back of that van. It was lower to the ground too so it was real easy to take stuff out of the back. Especially the 60-100 pound giant looploc covers we had to move, wasn't a weight issue just a sheer size thing that required 2 people to carry it.
"Get a car, beta", the single, overweight guy with a mountain of debt says to me while he pulls away in his shiny, clean pickup truck.
that happened
Meanwhile this 'beta' guy: th-cam.com/video/nA40QqNn-1U/w-d-xo.html
And it's so easy to go into debt with these useless trucks. I'll bet there's dealerships giving these to people with lower 300 FICO scores. If there's another 2008, it's going to be auto lenders' fault this time
In single, overweight guys defense. He had to get his shiny, clean pickup truck to the car wash.
@@lukepatten8308 lol nah
Truck owner, SUV owner, Car guy. I got an old beat up pick up that I love and every girl I've been with hates. 20 years old, 400k miles and runs rough. But it's simplicity and utilitarian nature makes it a fun truck. It's cheap to fix, I can do all the work on it myself. It is a truck, not a luxury vehicle. I also own a 2009 suburban, it has some luxury features, leather seats and somewhat modern safety features . I use it to hual fully loaded trailers across the country. It's not as utilitarian as my truck, but it's tough and comfortable.
After 2014, trucks have fully transformed into status symbols and luxury machines. A non-commercial truck should be light, reliable, and affordable. If I want luxury, I would buy a sedan or cross over. I had luxury cars and smaller is better. Because it's suppose to be comfortable.
My Suburban is a beast, I don't like driving it to the store, the newer ones look at are even bigger and they're driven by moms with one child.
It's not economically sound either. I bought my truck for $1500 at 270k, and my suburban for 10k used (comes with everything and was in great shape). But dropping 40k for a used 2015 suburban is nutz. A truck should be cheap because you use it for work, if it doesn't have a dent, you're not using it. Trucks are security blankets ngl. I feel confident in them. But I also feel even more confident when I had my kia optima SXL Turbo. I avoid so many accidents because of stepping on the gas and getting out of the way. Best car ever until a drunk driver crashed into it(it was parked)
But a truck can be a commute car, too! I used my truck to commute to work, was gas expensive? Yes but I didn't have a car payment and the maintenance cost was so little because of its reliability. It makes sense plus I love picking up things I see, going over things in my way. But buying a 80k truck to go to your desk job is nuts. Get a corvette if you want to show off! If we made light cheap trucks again it wouldn't be a bad culture. My dad drove a little 90s Tacoma truck to his construction work and it was all he needed until it got stolen and he got a tundra 2002 and had it until his death in 2014. It was beaten to death but it brought back value because he was able to pay it off because it wasn't crazy expensive and keep it for his entire life and the truck lived on past him, older brother had it, until his death. I didn't keep it. I don't want to die yet.
I used to own a truck, it was wayyyyy more expensive than owning a car. Not just for the gas, but the maintenance as well, everything for a truck just costs more as they tend to be bigger. If you’re trying to save money, the last vehicle you wanna get is a truck.
Not everybody is trying to save money. Some of us like to indulge.
I have a pickup. Used it for work hauling stuff while simultaneously laughing at the people who never use theirs for anything but transportation.
It's also crazy how my decades-old pickup is low enough you can get in without a step ladder yet hauls as much as anything made now.
Honestly, truck 'culture' ruined the pickup by turning it into more of a fashion item than a legitimate tool.
A truck can be a fashion item or tool just like a car...
Actually your decades old truck hauls more than the 4 door short bed things they sell now.
Trucks used to be cool till these certain people got their grubby hands on it. I used to love them for their hard work and off-roading capabilities, now I hate them because of these stupid worthless modifications.
When people actually use the trucks (even modern trucks) as intended I absolutely respect them, they are using it as intended!
This. The 90s small trucks hold more volume than the big trucks of today woth their tiny beds.
I've got a 97 5.8L F250 that I'm getting a brand new paint job on. Then I'm gonna Christen it with a 10 lb maul. Cause I never want to be the little soy boy afraid to scratch his work truck.
Canadian here, living in Calgary Alberta - pickup truck capital of Canada. Lots of folks justify their road fortresses due to the odd bad weather conditions - but then they promptly drive like possessed maniacs during a blizzard and go unintentionally off-road anyway. And the pristine condition of the never-used cargo area never ceases to amaze.
But do they manage to get themselves unstuck with their pavement queens?
I also live in Calgary and drive for transit. Those pickup drivers are a damn menace and are aggressively irresponsible. They’ll cut a bus off on Stoney with 3 clear lanes just to prove they’re the alpha or some inane bullshit. I also laugh at them when snow hits and I wave as I go by in my Corolla on its decent winter tyres.
I live outside of NYC in the suburbs and we hardly get snow (I used to live in the mountains so I know real snow) and people are so dramatic with their car purchases. "It needs to be good in snow". We get flurries and maybe a few inches of snow / year. Every 4-5 years we get a blizzard that will shut roads down. I would say theres on average 1 bad day / year to be on the road otherwise, it's either not strong enough to cause unsafe road conditions or everything is shut down anyway. You really don't NEED an all weather capable vehicle here in my honest opinion and NY is actually the snowiest state in the US lol
I take responsibility for inspiring dozens of young Calgarians to get trucks. By shuttling them as kids at Moose Mountain for mountain biking 😉. Every summer since 2006. I try to compensate by commuting to work by motorcycle in the city.
Ontario here and same happens. I have nothing against truck owners and like the Toyota ones but for me just can’t justify the cost and empty space to just move things. I know urban owners but also those who truly do use it as a truck. Ironic my dad was a semi truck driver for decades but always drove a nice sedan at home. Why? Said he didn’t want to ride in any truck cab at home and used a trailer for the car to move things to our cottage.
So I regularly haul organic vegetables and meat to customers. Also do a lot of car camping because I hate paying for hotels when traveling. Found that the most utilitarian vehicle is an old Honda Minivan with all the seats taken out. More useful space that is protected and air conditioned. Minivans are basically the pickup trucks for Middle Aged Asian people who own nail shops, restaurants and massage parlors .
I am a full size truck owner and want to THANK YOU for addressing this entire absurd subculture of truck worship.
1) I have a rural acreage that actually requires the ability to tow and haul real things in the real world (i.e. "work truck")
2) My truck is a stripped down mild hybrid 6-cylnder gas engine...the most fuel efficient model I could purchase at the time.
3) My truck has 4WD because rural southern MN has occasional 6 foot drifts in temps that can kill. I find it amusing and disturbing that (mostly) men feel the need to have 4WD in the southern US big city suburbs.
4) My truck has heated seats and no other options. No sunroof. No princess wheels. No leather interior or light bars.
5) I am upset at both sides of the issue: those who judge me for driving a truck who also assume I only use it to haul 12-packs to the Bro-B-Que, and those "truck-bros" who feel the need to shame my utilitarian work truck because it doesn't have a chrome 9.7 liter 16 cylinder diesel engine and enough power to tow a cruise ship across sand.
When I grew up in the 70's, trucks were driven by hillbilly farm peasants (like me).
A truck is a tool, not a status symbol.
I worked on a farm in rural Canada a long time ago and you could literally see the difference between actual farmers and hobby farmers/everyone else based on said flowchart:
Is it a truck? Yes -> Is it shiny/Does it have decals? Yes -> Not a farmer.
Is it a truck? No -> Probably a farmer's normal vehicle or just a sensible person.
I've heard there is trend amongst farmers of doing the exact opposite of giant-ass truck and buying tiny Japanese trucks because A) it makes the most economical sense. B) Unless you are hauling boulders, it'll be fine C) The heavier the truck, the easier it gets stuck and the harder it is to free (very broadly speaking) and D) They are super easy to repair and it's super easy to get replacement parts. They even handle on-road very well which is nice if you have no other option when driving around a city.
There's a massive diff now between work trucks and the pavement princesses
I respect your frustration with people who are "anti-truck", but I hope you understand the reason behind the judgement, I do feel looking out for my and my communities survival rates is a very good reason to automatically register owning a truck as a red flag. But I definitely see your point, it isn't fair to have prejudice before you know someone doesn't use their truck
@@cherriberri8373
I have no idea of your region, but I don't think you would see full size trucks as red flags if you lived in the western interior states. Full size trucks get a lot of use for many reasons, and they're very normal here. They're not a red flag.
Another full size V6er! Much respect to the work-truck guys, I'm on the other side: I live in Northern Canada, and insure my truck for recreational use only and use it to pull my boat, camper trailer, and haul moose out of the back country! It's more of a big quad than a suburban man mobile.
In town (including our Costco trips) my wife and I drive a Fiat 500, and ride our bikes as often as possible.
Accusation and insults are admissions, 99% of the time.
They are telling on themselves, as you explained!
My in-law has a pickup truck, but the last three times I asked to borrow it for hauling 1) dirt 2) rocks 3) an appliance, all three times he declined because it would scratch up his truck bed. I kid you not. I had to rent a U-Haul pickup instead. He was not joking. He lives in a suburb and does computer IT work.
Same as a relative of mine… mostly stays in the air on the plane zipping back and forth to business talks. IT work in gas and oil utilities. Take a guess at the demographics. Caricature of stereotype fits.
Well to be fair, dirt and rocks can get VERY heavy, so it depends on how much you're talking about. The truck was likely a light 1/2 ton truck, and can't carry that much weight in the bed.
Maybe he thought you would be disrespectful of his investment and abuse it, affecting his wallet. And it looks like he was probably right.
I am "trusted custodian" of a work F150, loaded with gear in a big plywood organizer under a bed capper. I got nice free loads of cut limestone blocks and flags for my landscaping, carrying 20 or 30 at a time on top of the plywood. Squatted the fckoutta that BCTH! I think the springs are still a little compressed from what they used to be. Makes access easier.
😂 its not your truck dude
Well here ya go: you said “Rolex, Lamborghini “ and I got a Gucci ad, I think that’s a score
I got a paper towel ad right after that moment in the video. Rethinking my life choices.
My ad was just for TH-cam Premium. They're really pushing...
@@davidsprenkle2641I'm getting toilet paper ads. I'm not sure how they know that I am watching while sitting on the toilet.
Got 'em.
I got arm & Hammer AD
Imagine being this mind broken by pickup trucks
The problem with these trucks is that you end up having to get a similar size vehicle (SUV) to protect you and your family.
Nothing more delicate than the feelings of a loser in a giant pickup truck.
I imagine it would be extremely painful to admit to yourself that you're paying $1300/mo for an emotional support vehicle
snowflakes
@@genektegezoink So fucking unimaginative, just as expected
Or the loser who whines about what everyone else is doing.
CityNerd just doesn't understand that these vehicles provide a kind of emotional support that just isn't available anywhere else. If you don't believe me, just turn on a country station and listen to all the songs about the mutual love between men and their trucks. Making $1,200 monthly payments may not make sense for an ordinary vehicle, but it does make sense for a rolling safe space.
imagine tying your identity to a hunk of metal you sit in to go to your office job lmao
We should be more sympathetic. Some people have a hefty price tag tied to how they identified. Just think of all the truck bros that could never be truly happen before the inception of the truck.
In own a pickup, and my current job is work-from-home white collar.
My previous job was highly physical blue collar - and I always rode my bike or walked to work.
People do it with cars just as much.
@@stevesecret2515but that’s because everyone needs a car, especially in America. We all have one or had one at some point. But I would rather take a Mini Cooper than a dualie Ford F-150.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 But it doesn't have to be that way. We built America for cars and oil companies. We need to rebuild for people.
What a great rant. Pick-up truck owner and bike commuter here. Enjoyed every second!
The Pickup Truck Guy is the guy barreling down the highway at 20mph over the speed limit with headlights brighter than the bald spot on his bear boyfriend's head tailgating you.
I think there's a psychological connection with European style walkable cities. I feel like the overlap between "truck bros" and "Europeans are gay" types is a circle
The only connection is that the politics of the truck owner are more likely to allow for "walkable cities" in the future than those found in this channel.
@@necroflounder walkability is about racial demographics, not about trucks.
I can't stand the shiny city trucks. I also hate the city and public transport.
I love the suburbs and my 2 seat roadster. From my cold dead hands!
@@jakeleisure8326 Do you enjoy paying municipal taxes? I just hope you're aware that your suburbs and roadster require public funding and maintenance.
@@2ndavenuesw481
Racism✅
Pro Truck Comment ✅
Stereotype filled ✅
I have classmates that tell me on a weekly basis that I need a truck instead of my Toyota Camry and proceed to brag about how they need to put $70 of fuel in every week but at the same time complain about gas prices. They never know how to respond to the argument that I have zero use for a truck and I only pay $35 every 3-4 weeks for gas, at the end of the day im a junior at a rural high school so maybe im too young for my opinion to matter but simply put I don't think we should be allowed to vote in this upcoming election.
A camry seems like a really nice car.
Juniors in high-school spend $280 on fuel every month? What a waste, especially considering that age group isn't exactly loaded with cash.
Oh don't worry, stupidity doesn't discriminate by age.
Oh no! God forbid you own one of the most reliable, affordable, efficient, utilitarian sedans around. You'd better trade that in for a massively inefficient, expensive, and unnecessary vehicle instead. Remember kids, being smart isn't manly!
I’ve told my kids they are not going to be getting their licenses until 18 . The reason insurance costs they can save and invest 250 dollars a month towards college through their teen years or spend most of what they can make on a car . I had a Corolla when I was a teen I wish I had just bought a nice bike and saved my money instead and I did live out in the country .
I love this nerd. His burns are so slow his targets are too stupid to realize they're getting burned. He even uses other peoples' remarks to cause secondary points of contact for the burns.
The better way to describe your manner of conveying information is "chill as fuck"
I live in a rural community, and do a lot of repairs. I have a 1984 Chevy S10. It works for everything I need. And most of the time, the Chevy bolt works.
I miss the old S10 and Ranger. Decent gas mileage, a bed for when you need it, and you don't need a built in step ladder to get in it.
A time when pickups were actually worth something. Now they're big useless hunks of metal that can barely fit a 2x4.
I like older pickup trucks - with their beds lower to the ground and at least as capacious as more recent models; those are the ones I see doing the most actual work, both in the city and during my motorcycle rides through the countryside. Though there are contractors who use big lifted late-model trucks; these, it seems to me, are more concerned with status and emotion than cold, hard functionality; if they looked at it rationally, they'd see how their choice of vehicle is suboptimal.
I remember when the Chevy Bolt first came out, it struck me as _finally_ an electric car optimally designed to carry passengers and/or stuff around, with enough range that only the most irrationally insecure would feel "range anxiety" over (most folks could plug it in once a week to cover all the miles they drive), built by an actual automaker with a unionized workforce.
If I were in the market for a car, it's on my short list of models to consider. And if I were putting together a taxicab fleet, that's the first one I'd consider for modding.
@@dwc1964I used to drive a Honda fit but even in that frame of mind, those Chevys, the Bolt and its hybrid cousin the Volt, felt very cramped. I very much wanted to like them but they just felt bad to be in. Same with the Prius C.
I don't get why rural people get offended. We're literally talking about making cities work better so there's more actual rural countryside to use and enjoy rather than sprawling strip malls and subdivisions destroying your hunting spots.
I’ve been both and I currently live in a rural area so I can try to explain a little.
It’s heavily a class issue is indisputable that cities generally have much better levels of development, services ,and higher incomes. While rural life, even with all the modernizations making it easier, is generally a poorer and tougher life. So we see city people living better than us, and then we see city people, talking all kinds of fun it is very pejoratively like redneck, hillbilly, white trash, and more. And then, frequently, politics and talking points that are popular in the city, try to get forced upon us living out in the country. Huge one is gun control - not only is gonna ship much more common in the country, but also it is a genuine necessity for everything from protecting livestock by predator control to subsistence hunting to self-defense, because the cops are gonna take more than an hour to show up. Country generally, doesn’t have gangs or endemic crime areas which the city tries to address by trying to find gun control on everybody, including us out in the country that don’t have those problems and indeed need The guns that you’re trying to get rid of. It would be like if we in the country decided we were going to stop animal cruelty by deciding you can’t have any commercial meat in the supermarket and instead you have to hunt all your meat. Not a problem for us because hunting grounds are easy to get out but for you, it’s a huge inconvenience that significantly impacts your lifestyle and quality.
Also, when you live in the country with smaller populations and greater distance between neighbors, you come to think much more individualistically, and that includes thinking about terms of how to do everything yourself. Also come to respect your personal freedom, much more and adopted overall live and let live attitude. So it becomes truly offensive when people from the city want to apply their urban ideas to everywhere and everyone. We aren’t pushing our rural ideas on you, but for some reason you’re trying to force us to adopt city ways, even though we aren’t you. And you get extremely insulting when we push back that we don’t want to, or they would even be deleterious to us.
Basically, the cities are wealthier, so they have a superiority complex that drives them to be imperialistic and domineering over merle folk, who, in general would just rather be left alone, instead of subject to policies against their interest and jeers when they oppose them. It’s a clash of lifestyles and classes.
The urban/rural divide is astounding.
Basically it comes down to "can you stand living around lots of other people or not"
Loooolll I love you man. These videos are savage
all these huge luxury trucks should be taxed to hell and back. if you don't need a vehicle like this for work you should be paying significantly higher taxes
I’ve seen lots of support from folks in the US for requiring a CDL Class B for anything over 5k. Sienna is fine. Suburban is not. We should do it.
Registration costs should increase with the weight of the vehicle.
@@joe42m13with how often I’ve heard drivers complain about cyclists not paying for road upkeep, you’d think this was common sense. Turns out though, drivers just hate anyone who isn’t a driver and don’t actually care about paying their fair share.
Of course, you can buy an LLC for 100, rent your house to yourself, and then claim your 80K land tank is a "work truck" and enjoy the tax breaks /s
Income taxe should be based on vehicle weight. For personal vehicles anyways. If everyone drove a Fiat 500, we wouldn't need to repair bridges and overpasses multiple times per decade. It's insane how I, as a cyclist, subsidize repairs to infrastructure caused by pickup trucks. And I say income tax because most infrastructure budgets come from income tax, not gas tax or tag fees or anything like that.
Can you do a video about how America’s CAFE (emissions) requirements incentivize auto manufacturers to produce larger, less fuel efficient vehicles? It’s a big reason why pickup trucks and large SUVs are everywhere now.
Another reason why pickup trucks have gotten larger and American automakers focus entirely on large vehicles these days, is because US automakers can’t compete with overseas manufacturing of smaller cars (for many complex reasons), and have shifted focus in the past decade to high-margin vehicles for the domestic market, which Ford, GM and Stellantis still largely dominate.
It’s sort of off topic, and has been covered before.
YES !! THIS !! Damn CAFE requirements. These huge vehicles shouldn't be on our roads like this.
Add to that: Trucks, minivans, and sport utility vehicles (SUV) are not subject to the gas guzzler tax because these vehicle types were not widely available in 1978.
The one and only issue is the fact that trucks were given their exception. Easy fix too.
@gingermany6223 - yes. But they should be. Which is why OP mentions the CAFE laws.
I live in the Colorado mountains and bought a new 2004 Dodge Cummins diesel that gets 22-24 mpg and I still have it. Only minor repairs were required in close to 300 k miles of use. I’m a house builder and my truck like my tools make me a great living . A truck is an investment to make money not an emotional crutch. P.S. I just came by for the comments I didn’t watch your video.
I had a customer who made me wait in the lobby for 45 minutes every time before he let me in. I chatted with the receptionist a lot. One day she said " Can i ask you a question?"
"Sure." I said.
"Why do all these men buy these huge pickup trucks?" She asked.
I said "We guys talk about it. We think they are compensating for some inadequacy."
A lot of giggling started coming from the accountants behind her, who were all female. They then began sharing female euphamisms for male inadequacy, or failure to perform, which are as prolific and dirty as man jokes. Things like can't fill the sock, and the bigger the boots, the smaller the ____. So there is a lot of self esteem and image projecting invested in owning a pickup.
And the girls, at least the ones you would want to marry, can see through it.
And then everyone clapped.
The "Emotional Support Vehicle" description is very adequate for all the guys who wrap up their masculinity in their vehicle choice.
It go for people that buy sport cars
@@alphonsotate2982At least ripping a Porsche down a canyon road makes you smile. There is no reason a truck would make you smile. Literally none. They aren’t even that good off road compared to a short wheelbase SUV.
@@ghettomist1575I was happy when I saw an original virtual fighter arcade machine on the sidewalk for trash and it fit so easily in my pickup
@@russell-gt1dy Awww that’s a cute story. I’m happy for you homie!
The only time they get female attention is with their trucks. They're just doing what they have to I guess.
Nah, it's my husband's boyfriend who has the truck.
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Bruh 💀
You have a husband who has a BOYFRIEND???
@@jamesbosworth4191 are you sure I'm being serious?
The biggest crime is that Americans don't have easy access to the much more practical Kei trucks available in Asian markets.
I don't understand the point of pickup trucks either.
Somehow, a car like that says something about its owners: they have to follow every industry trend.
If you have to transport a lot of stuff on rare occasions, you can just buy a trailer for $800. It's much more practical and cost-effective.
The cognitive dissonance of thinking that masculinity = being brave and then choosing to go around in a tank while calling people who don't "soy boys" must be palpable.
They aren’t brave, though. Just the opposite.
That requires actual self reflection.
@@happycommuter3523Thats what im implying
Masculinity is simultanously about being a big tough man who can survive on their own but also if I have to be ourside in bad weather for more than the 5 seconds it takes to walk to my car I will scream.
Most families are better served by a minivan that a pickup truck.
minivans are also much more practical than any cuv/suv as well
minivans are the best!
Agreed. IMO, minivans are the most versatile, useful vehicle design ever made. They are the veritable Swiss Army Knife of vehicles. Carry 7 passengers? Yup. Carry a 4 X 8 sheet of plywood in the back, flat on the floor, with the hatch closed? Yup. Easily converted to a mini camper for weekend trips to the mountains? Yup. Move all but the largest pieces of furniture? Yup. Yeah, no vehicle is more flexible and useful than the humble minivan.
@@jaybickford512nothing humble about these new minivans lol.
Right, If your wife's boyfriend already has a truck, why should you.
The name of your channel fits you perfectly.
Love and miss the mini pickup trucks-great for gig workers and young people who move frequently
"Emotional Support Vehicle", a perfect description!
Need emotional support? Get a dog.
@@paulbrower na, get a cat...well two...ok 6....and a dog
That is what the Miata is for me.
@@fortheloveofnoise9298 I miss my oil burning shitbox 🥲
We should just start calling all pickup drivers “toddler flatteners” from now on.
My nickname for them is "murder wagons". 😅
Ooh, sick!🤢
I'm fond of wankpanzer.
One of my goto terms for these is "Death machines"
I read it as flatearther first. However, that totally works as well.
The story about the woman afraid of scratching her truck bed reminded me of when I worked at a Ford dealer. I had been working on a Raptor where it was clear the owner used it for its intended purpose - it was scratched, dented and dirty. The tech a few bays down from me was to repair another Raptor - owned by a woman, coincidentally - who would not let her truck stay in the parking lot a few days until her parts arrived. She kept the truck garaged at home until we could work on her truck. When the repair was completed, she insisted it be kept in the shop until she picked it up.
I'm having a lot of fun drinking my coffee and watching you respond to hate mail 😂
Hearing someone is concerned about the truck bed getting scratched is just hilarious to me. You wanted a vehicle capable of carrying stuff in the back. You committed to buying a vehicle that costs tens of thousands of dollars, but you couldn't spend the extra little bit to get a bed liner? I guess you don't care *that* much about it. Unless you're also concerned about scratching up the bed liner..in which case lol, lmao even.
My dad was like this with his new lifted Silverado back in... 2005?? I forget the exact year. But we were loading up cut down branches into the bed and he got mad at me not GENTLY sliding the branches into the bed. I hated the damn truck until he finally lightened up about the paint five years later.
You also just don’t really see the truck bed. It’s not like the body of the truck is getting scratched.
Bed liners have always confused me... I don't put a case on my phone because I expect it to be used for a couple years. Anyone ever heard of wear and tear clauses in warranties?
@@RogueAfterlife Some people use phone cases for decoration. I think it's fine if people don't like their phone scratched up either. Also, we should push for phones and things not to be made with planned obsolescence.
The thing that I really don't get about this argument is that bed liners have been a thing for ages, mine even has its factory plastic bed liner in it and scratching/denting the bed has legitimately never been a concern with that. Why people concerned with this never just get a bed liner I don't know
I drove small pickup trucks when I was very young, but left them behind in my 20s. I wasn’t using them to haul often enough to justify the significant additional wind drag, and lack of a secured trunk. The trucks I see on the road today are enormous, and pristine to the point that I know they are about trying to create an image, or to fit in
Strange thought, maybe the people that drive the trucks just like them. I know its a weird thought.
@@generalwillwelsh7926 People buy things they like. Crazy.
"Spend your money how I approve! Reeee!"
I actually have a pickup truck and it's totally not what I ever expected I would ever have. I work a standard white collar job. My former vehicle died due to a computer chip going bad. I feel the same way about "pickup truck guys" as this video. I am a bike commuter and have ridden my 24 year old mountain bike (converted into a commuter bike) to work almost every day for the past 11 years. I only use the truck for trips: either camping or ski trips, river trips, mountain biking, etc. We have a small travel trailer that the truck tows and it handles it great. The gas mileage on this truck is actually better than the vehicle it replaced (it's a V6 vs the old V8) but a more modern engine that just seems to work better with more efficiency. I drive it in "eco-mode" all the time. For the record, I have a hard-shell over the bed to keeps things safe and dry and I never take that off. We live in the suburbs, but go into the mountains and desert as often as we can. I HATE driving that truck into the city, but then again, I hate going into the city regardless. I carry a good amount of camping or outdoor gear in it, but I am not hauling agricultural products or anything like that.
I don't drive it "off road" because I hate off-roading in a vehicle: it's destructive to both the vehicle and more importantly the environment and not fun at all, sitting there bouncing around being stressed out about breaking something. I mountain bike if I am going "off road" and spend a fraction of the $$ for a better experience that gets me into shape. I know a bit about the physics of off-roading and unless you are out in the open, those lifted pickup trucks would be horrible where I go (steep mountain roads): they are just too big and too high a center of gravity and too long a wheelbase. My truck is pretty stock and it's not lifted and doesn't have off-road tires. The downsides are real: expensive vs regular car and the gas mirage. Mine wasn't the $80K and up you see nowadays, thankfully, but it was expensive. There are some valid justifications for owning one depending on what you really use it for and where you live, but it does make a pretty stupid commuter vehicle. I'm very thankful for that old commuter bike I have.
I know I am a special case in that my truck is only a means to an end and has nothing to do with my personality/identity. I am definitely not an "Alpha-male" (or any type of Greek letter male, for that matter) and I would never in a million years have a "punisher" skull sticker on my truck, as seems almost mandatory. I saw a lot of these comments and also had to share that I am a road cyclist, as well, and can relate to aggressive drivers. They may be more slanted towards truck drivers, but they certainly aren't limited to them. The worst situations I have had have been with a Subaru, of all things.
Just recently moved to a property on a few acres in the countryside outside our metro. I've got goats, chickens, and a boatload of large dogs. I drive a hatchback. So many of my friends and family kept nudging me like "You gonna get a truck now?" and I resoundingly say no. I grew up driving landyacht hoopties and I even had an SUV for a moment, but the high cost of gas was enough to change my mind years ago. Now that you pay a premium just to own a gas guzzler I'm fully in the camp of only driving hatchbacks, wagons, and minivans.
Do you remember when guys would buy sports cars to show off or massage their ego? What happened? At least those cars were nice to look at and fun to ride in. I've accepted rides from guys just for the sake of the experience. Nice times.
You can keep your truck, mister.
a sports car doesnt quite say "i dont care about your safety," or "i WANT to intimidate you, actually" the way a lifted truck does. these people have deep issues.
These are people playing at being rural and working class.
Sports cars do not evoke a rural and working class image.
One more thing, the truck is designed to handle with a full bed. They have insane body roll otherwise and it’s crazy with all the torque the engines put out.
I love a good drive-by psychoanalysis! 👍🏽
I drive a pickup - it's an older f-150. It basically serves the same purpose as a cargo van. I would never dream of commuting in it. But pickups are versatile tools and great recreational vehicles for camping. 🤷
The key is, it has a lower hood (so it's not a battering ram death machine) and I use it for very specific purposes - moving furniture or appliances, farm stuff, and camping. For getting around town or commuting, i bike.
I'm an urbanist. I drive a pickup truck*. We exist.
*An early 2000's Toyota Tacoma 4-banger manual single cab. It gets 20mpg and has enough miles on it to have gone to the moon and back. I love it so much. Small truck urbanist gang rise up!
I was wondering if anyone else felt that way. I have a Hyundai Santa Cruz and use it to haul stuff almost every day and i drive it easy. 25mpg, 2.5l 4 cylinder. I have a friend with a f-150 and he was hating on my ride and I told him I can haul air just as well as him and pay less for gas. Utes and midsize / unibody trucks are the trend right now. You can’t get a Ford Maverick without a year-long wait.
I drive an F-150 so maybe I am not a small truck, but I do feel like one when I am near other pickup truck drivers. Though I will say, I take no pleasure in dissing on other peoples rides except when I feel like doing it in a "friendly comedic way". E.G. "that tiny clown van of yours? naw im just kidding. In all seriousness, that is a cool little Ford transit you got there, man."
Single cab is good cab
I can make an exception for a smaller truck like yours.
I respect small pickup truck owners, as long as it's obviously being used as a truck and not a pavement princess only hauling Costco home. Shoot even if you don't use your "truck" abilities, at least you can see if there is a small child in front of you.. something most pickup truck owners can't say.
Well as of this writing, this video outdid the last one. Standing at 5.4K as of this writing.
i just subscribed and am ready for the pickup truck singularity. hilarious.
i also hope everyone says you sound like the friend from mission hill and/or brian posehn.
As a truck enthusiast, I:
-Maintain a class A CDL
-Own a 1.2L hatchback
-load my hatchback to it's gross vehicle weight rating often, and tow with it occasionally, including both trailers and recovering larger cars.
-aspire to buy a small truck, and by small, I mean Japanese market medium-duty cab-over, smaller than a "¾ ton" but with double the cargo volume, comparable payload, and better visibility.
I also drive large commercial vehicles for work but my personal vehicle is a tiny little hatchback 😂
I love the feeling of driving something light, fast and nimble after a day of driving huge trucks. The irony is never lost on me.
The crazy part is that -- if you go anywhere in Japan -- workers use tiny little 1600-pound kei trucks (like the Daihatsu Hijet and Suzuki Carry) to run farms, haul tools, deliver for small businesses, and such. The typical Daihatsu Hijet in Japan does way more real work than the typical F-150.
And has the same size bed.
OK I'm sold. Where to buy?
If we didn't have bullshit regulation in the states, we would have them too. Trucks get bigger because they have to meet less strict emissions standards.
Infrastructure has accommodated American vehicle size for decades too and I think we have to make room to give roads back to pedestrians, cycling and incentivize people to buy smaller vehicles because it’s unpractical to own these full sized suv and trucks.
People will buy those vehicles if it’s practical and they are given the option. I think Toyota is selling a small truck for 10k in Japan soon.
It’s just too dangerous for people to make those their work vehicles in most places in America.
my favorite rebuttal to kei trucks is that “those japanese toys are useless when you’re trying to haul a gooseneck cattle trailer”. Like the average truck driver is doing the same 😂
I got a Harbor Freight ad right after you started talking about mid roll ads
My favorite truck story is when after getting out of a store we saw a massive custom pickup truck, complete with flashing lights and lifted up with custom wheels, being towed out of the parking lot. The parking lot was in an urban area, and was very narrow, meaning the truck took up two parking spots. The truck almost did not fit on the tow truck. The truck was so high up the owner had to stand on the wheel to get into the driver’s seat when attempting to start it (admittedly, the owner was pretty short, but even if he was taller he probably still would have to do that). It was peak entertainment and somehow this story exemplifies a lot of what I think about pick up trucks and their owners.
It's nice to have someone put into words what I was feeling in highschool when I would rev my Subaru's engine behind Frankie's lifted truck just to watch him lose his mind and climb down to scream at me about his father's HVAC business
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Growing up in the south, a lot of kids drove full size and heavy duty trucks but they were all pavement princesses. I had a Geo Tracker I resurrected and a Buick LeSabre. My dad had a single cab 1990 Chevy that he still drives today with 1m+ miles. He has rebuilt it and refuses to sell it because it’s just right for him. I used to be there butt of jokes about my tracker, but now I realize I had the most fun car out of all of them.😂
I think this trend is changing though because most truck sales are for midsize or smaller pickups. L
Lots of find geo tracker memories. RIP geo tracker
It’s going to be OK just take a deep breath
Australia here - I used to have a neighbour who was a plumber, his work vehicle was your average white HiAce van which was parked in the garage overnight, there was also had a large 4WD fitted with all the fruit including roof rack with a cargo box as the family's non business vehicle and had to park that it in the driveway because that was too tall to fit in to the garage of their house,
Then one day the van was gone and a Dodge Ram appeared parked on the verge with the plumbing company's graphics on the truck bed's canopy. It was SOOOOO big (wide) it wouldn't even fit in the driveway (between the retaining wall and letterbox). As this was a corner block this meant the truck was illegally parked (local laws is that you can't park on the road within 10 meters of a road corner).
AND then he had to buy a trailer because the RAM had way less storage space for work stuff than the HiAce, so now he was parking that, hitched to the RAM which took up the entire street frontage of his property and even projected out in to the intersection.
that lasted for a few months, and I noticed frequent visitations from the local council rangers, and then he was gone, new people moving in - Speaking to the house owner (who's another neighbour) apparently along side the fines there were multiple instances of theft of tools from the back of the truck and the trailer so he broke lease to move out to larger house (so more rent, probably MUCH more rent) just so he could keep his big arse pickup truck instead of do the trade in walk of shame with the dodge and go back to a standard van.
he's prob underwater on the lease, prob 84 month
Long comment but yeah trucks are bad at what they're intended for.
That only speaks of the criminals in your country
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Damn, i heard pick-ups where mostly used to haul fragile egos
didn’t realize you could use glass to shatter said egos
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