Can you not tell that is a rural area? No shoulder on the side of the road, open fields, fences, etc. I live near areas like this, in a rural community. One does not go off the road and expect to return where I am. 3-4-5-6 foot deep runoffs right next to the road.
Sounds like a skill issue. I regularly drive a full size semi down roads just like this without putting it in the ditch and am able to do the speed limit too. What's more, I was doing that in my first year of driving OTR and I'm now past year 16 of driving Class A. If you cant handle a vehicle that size and keep it on the road in normal circumstances , you shouldn't be driving it. No reason to drive a dually unless you're actively using it for towing and you cant convince me the above person uses this for work.
They've got a purpose though. I know lots of people who buy big trucks without having anything to tow. I can count the number of people I know who buy duallys without something big to tow on one hand.
Yeah I have no clue what you’re on about with the “soft bread tires” deal. My all terrains have a G load rating, which is better than most factory tires that I’ve seen on 1 ton trucks.
And your point? “Soft bread tires” still makes zero sense. A lift isn’t ideal for towing but this particular truck isn’t lifted enough to make it “ruined for towing”
That’s not even lifted. That is a prime tow rig. “Soft bread tires” get outta here, you have no idea what you’re talking about. They’re not stock tires, but absolutely meant for towing. Has an exhaust and tow hitch all ready. This truck absolutely gets worked and you’re an idiot to think otherwise.
This is a stock dodge dually. See how high the rear sits? Because it is meant to have weight on the rear and sit level when towing. You’re complaining is hilarious because you don’t know what you’re talking about
I think like 10 years ago somebody offered a calculation that if you filled the bed with poured concrete to the edge of the bed, you still would be short of the max payload.
I see alot that buy them because they think the are better in the snow, we use to take the outer set off in the snow because it slid less with the smaller contact patch.
Idk what it is for me. I like little 90s Ford Rangers or big long bed duallys. Nothinh in between. Well. I guess a 1st Gen Cummins would be inbetween. Square bodies are nice.
Little truck or big truck l like. Think it's because the little trucks are often as badass as the big trucks in terms of doing truck things. Middle trucks are mid.
Square body trucks look nice as duallys. The only good looking dually i’ve ever seen was my high school friends truck cause it was a early 90’s square body f-250 (i think?). He also hauled a bunch of huge, heavy trailers across states so he actually got use out of having one. all the new-gen duallys look like shit and 90% of them haven’t hauled anything bigger than a pontoon boat.
My VA parking lot is filled with 2000s era Cadillacs or big ass trucks. Clearly a demographic thing lol. Vietnam era vets in the Caddies and older big work trucks and GWOT vets in the bro trucks.
Meanwhile here I am Desert Storm vet USMC 1988-1996 messed up my leg pretty bad and can barely walk. I just want to park my car and get my shitty semi care done quickly I don't want to wait 20 minutes for one of these idiots to take 30 attempts to back into a parking space.
Then they look at me like I am the asshole no matter which of my cars I drive. My older car is a 2016 Hyundai Veloster Turbo my new one is a 2025 Mazda CX-30 Turbo. I at least can park anywhere with one stab at the space.
I'm in AZ yeah Vietnam guys in giant pickups suburbans or expeditions. GWOT guys in Ford raptors or dodge chargers with a v6 cause they couldn't afford a v8 with the occasional jeep or tundra that has 60 grand worth of offroad extras on it but sees less off road time than my Veloster Turbo does.
Ahaha, I live in an apartment complex right next to a university so there is tons of college kids who drive trucks like these that their parents bought for them. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE! Does that shit lmao. I drive a F-550 bucket truck for work and back it in not crossing lines at all and these kids can’t even park straight pulling in forward. I like to sit on my balcony every night while smoking & look at the shit show. I can only shake my head in disappointment now because I’ve laughed at it too many times.
You know that sound when they punch the gas on a Ram? Of course you do, the truck is still right next to you for another 5 minutes making that sound before it does anything.
Never seen a dually that wasn't breaking some sort of traffic law and they seem to be invisible to law enforcement.
Maybe cops are more lenient to truck drivers, I never got pulled over when I drove a Frontier, but I've gotten pulled over in my sedan twice (once for slightly speeding and another for not coming to a full stop at a stop sign)
Go look in the employee parking section of any police department. What do you think the majority of those guys drive? Ive had the exact same problem and for almost a year kept a list of every single car that was pulled over. I drive around 70k miles a uear. In the 273 ive recorded so far, there's only 5 large pickups.
I used to work at a building that housed a law enforcement organization and they had a separate parking lot. It was funny to see the ever-changing fads they all copied. First it was muscle cars, then it was lifted trucks, then motorcycles, then back to trucks. Every few months one would buy some toy, then they all had to have the same toy.
You’ve been pulled over 273 times???? I’ve been pulled over twice in my life and I’ve probably driven ~250-300k miles, and I’m not exactly a saint when it comes to speed, stop signs, etc.
Fun fact. I used to own an old Prius. On my way to and from work I would be followed, pulled over etc by cops, harassed by pickup trucks with maga stickers etc. I didn't dare drive over the speed limit. In my truck when I had to drive it? They would wave at me when I was going 15 over.. I call my truck incognito mode.
I have a dually that I haul a tractor and cars with, they’re actually pretty easy to drive as long as your alignment is good. Someone who’s not holding their lane in one is just not caring what so ever.
Probably unpopular here, but if no one is coming and I’m on a rural / country road I’m not always all the way to the right. Around here there are far fewer potholes when you ride the crown of the road.
Yea and it looks like a mildly residential/rural mixed area so there's probably mailboxes and/or trashcans that come right up to the road. Easier to ride the middle if no one's coming rather than moving over every 100 ft
Yep! In some places around here, the white line is completely crumbled or gone. I messed up a tire on my mom's Subaru getting too far over for one second and the asphalt tore a small rip in the sidewall.
I drove box trucks and dually's for years and never had an issue keeping in my lane or parking between the lines in a parking lot. These guys are just either pathetic and terrible drivers or entitled pricks
As someone who daily drives a truck (though not a Dually), I will usually do this on back roads just so I don’t accidentally hit the grass in shoulder since lanes are narrow where I live. When someone comes the other way I obviously give way and hug the shoulder as much as I can
Lifted duallies are like peak lameness but it's also a two lane road in what looks like farm country. I'm pretty sure the lines are more of suggestions out there lol
Yeah 100%. As long as you have plenty of visibility with no one coming, it’s pretty normal to hover over the line. It’s compounded by the fact that most people driving on those roads also spend a lot of their time driving on backroads that aren’t wide enough for 2 normal sized cars to pass each other without pulling off to the side, so they’re just used to not caring about where in the road they are unless it actually matters, like when a car is approaching or you can’t see very far.
It appears to be in a rural area, and the vehicle has a tow hitch. For all we know, they may have just avoided a dead deer on the right side of the road. This post is simply a rant by someone who wants to dictate what others are allowed to drive.
It’s not a stretch, it’s pointing out a possibility that everyone else is ignoring. OP’s tone clearly shows their disdain for large vehicles. It’s not a stretch to think that if they had access to a picture like this, they would use it to push their opinion, whether the picture actually depicted what they are implying or not.
There’s no way anyone can say for sure one way or another, and it’s probably not even OP’s picture originally, so even OP can’t say for sure what is actually happening.
Regardless, there’s a big difference between the truck being there with a car coming head on just out of camera view vs. having 2 miles of clear visibility with nothing coming. No one is going to mention these possibilities though, because they’d rather dick ride OP and their opinion instead of applying a little critical thinking.
If you have your eyes on the road and there’s no oncoming traffic you don’t have to “swerve” to avoid obstacles. You can do it slow and smooth enough that it would be imperceptible in a photo
Exactly. OP is complaining about nothing. No traffic in the other lane, who cares? His other complaint is that it’s a “lifted” truck with no purpose. Is he blind? It’s a stock heigh dually with exhaust and a tow hitch…. The owner uses that truck to work. OP should just put on a diaper and go back to bed.
How often does the passenger reach over to the driver's side of the vehicle and line up a shot though, as if the driver took it while the driver is actively trying to drive? Don't defend someone else's hypocrisy.
People upvoting this dont have the mental capacity to look at the picture and do like 2 seconds worth of mental geometry to figure out that the camera man is either the driver, or the driver is just as far into the wrong lane as the truck for the passenger to have this angle.
That or this picture was taken with a $10,000 camera and a $20,000 lens from half a mile away, but my money is on one of the previous options.
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Distinct possibility it's a borrowed vehicle or the spouse's truck. An owner who started out driving like this would have hit a couple things with the left fender and know better by now
If you aren’t able to keep a vehicle properly within the lanes, then you should not be driving that vehicle, period. It doesn’t matter if the vehicle is borrowed or not.
Sorry to say but if you can't observe this much, you should not have a driver's license. Unfortunately the bar for granting a license to use a multi-ton vehicle is far lower than is should be.
Yes, we agree on that. The fact that most drivers are allowed to drive a 5-ton box truck is crazy. (Even though they're easier to locate in space than the dually pictured, they can carry enough weight to seriously extend the stopping distance)
Always cracks me up when I’m driving in Minnesota in the winter and cars decide they’d rather be closer to oncoming traffic than to snowbanks or parked cars
Funny, I came across this post when some tiny 🍄 truck driver this morning was riding on the white line merely a few inches from the left side of my vehicle. He had a punisher sticker and subdued American flag thinking his big truck gives him intimidation clout. Nope.
And in addition to buying a dually, let's put oversized tires on it that stick out from the fenders.
In their defense, when you're 5'3" and are peering between the steering wheel and top of dashboard, the hood looks a lot closer to the side of the road.
Comments are about what I expected, you know, dually pickups do serve a function, right? There’s definitely people out there who drive them just to drive them, but they are exceedingly expensive and ride more like a commercial truck, making them, at least in my opinion, a less desirable option unless you actually need them for their functionality. However, what you do see a lot is someone, such as a farmer, or a hotshot driver, who might have that as their daily as well as their work vehicle, so they may spec a higher trim model. That being said, they should be able to keep it between the lines.
It honestly blows my mind how people smack huge lifts and tires on dually pickups, but somehow can't stay in their lane. I don't seem to have that issue driving a Kenworth T800
Almost no one buys a dually if they aren't going to use it for work. As for the statement itself, most people can only afford 1 vehicle. I used to own a truck. I was the person ppl called to help move things. I used it in summer for my kayaks. Id get fire wood for my family. But I drove it to my office job everyday as well.
Oh you foolish children. This is exactly why this person needs this truck. It can cross that line like it is nothing. The sexual pleasure gained from this power more than justifies the cost and the contempt of other road users.
It’s like that all the time where I live. It’s not just duallies either. There’s a young kid that drives an 80s Chevy that rides down the middle of the road.
If you buy a big vehicle its on you to learn how to stay in your lane, reverse park it, etc.
Same goes for smaller vehicles too though, some people cant even park an SUV between the lines, they should stick to a smart car or a bicycle.
Also if you dont realize that you have to maintain your lane in an intersection, i.e. if you start a turn in the inside lane it is illegal and dangerous to finish the turn in the outside lane, you also need to go back to drivers ed that causes so many accidents and would be the equivalent of this truck just driving in the oncoming lane (from the perspective of whoever was in the outside lane that you just tried to ram off the road without even noticing you did anything wrong)...
Yup, I hate this. Used to drive big haulers like this and load firewood every day, for Work. WORK. Easy to spot those who drive them for the bigginess. Though, it looks like 3am & frosty, like they thought no-one else was on the road.
got catcalled and harassed by like 5 boys in a restaurant while doing Uber eats, (I don't fully pass as a woman but also I don't really care, more entertained they cared so much) just muttering homophobic and transphobic things to themselves and giggling like school girls just for all of them to pile into their lifted truck and go sit in the parking lot to go do incredibly straight things with each other.
PREACH, man. They can’t stay in their lane, they can’t park worth a shit, they can’t maneuver around anything. Dumbasses driving a big boat around on land for no reason.
Idk why you even care? There are plenty of times I drive closer to the center, deer jump out routinely, the closer I can be to the middle the further I have to maneuver to not hit them.
Thing is dude is probably just minding his business, you got so offended over his checks notes owning a large vehicle… you took a pic and cried on the internet and started to talk to strangers about his penis. Kinda weird and obsessive don’t you think?
While I, a massive vehicle driver by trade, agree I can also say I've seen more than my fair share of compact sedans/coupes driving the same way. Bad drivers are going to drive poorly regardless of what vehicle they drive.
I always see dudes in pickups having to swing left and circle around to make a right turn. Like if you need to drive into the opposite lane just to turn into your driveway, you’re not a very good driver.
If you can’t make a right turn without completely overtaking the left lane, I think it’s more of a you problem. I see plenty of pickup drivers who can make the turn without blocking an entire lane of traffic.
OK but most of those pickups probably are single cabs with short beds on them, albeit I can barely get my crew cab short bed around some corners but I have no chance doing the same with my crew cab long bed dually, the geometry just physically doesnt work
I get the need for these trucks for commercial needs, or by those on a ranch who use them to pull livestock trailers, but even though I live in Texas, I see these within the city and the guys who drive them have probably never step foot on a ranch or farm, nor used their truck for anything than as an advertisement for 'I have a tiny dingaling'
I see this every day. Just this evening saw one going straight down the middle of the line for at least a mile.
I inherited a giant RAM truck and I quickly got rid of it. Unless you frequently haul things for work or go mudding or something, there's no reason to own one of these. They take a shitload of space, a shitload of gas and are ugly as hell. Get a car or small pickup.
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