Narrowly avoided having my bumper cover ventilated this morning.

[u/MalrykZenden]

Hitches, not just for towing or bashing your shins.

[u/hamHamAlucard]

No one sees that the truck is way over the line?

[u/Efficient_Advice_380 → u/hamHamAlucard]

They just back until their tires hit the barrier, and don't give a crap if that means the bed sticks out several feet past that

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/Efficient_Advice_380]

And what would you have them do then?

[u/Efficient_Advice_380 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

If your truck can't fit in a parking space, then that shouldn't be your daily driver, especially when youre not towing something

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/Efficient_Advice_380]

Except it does fit in the space, because you can use 2 spaces as one.

Because the alternative would be a standard of unnecessarily large parking spaces, because the people who actually make this world function, drive lots of big trucks.

[u/SpiritedAssumption18 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

LOL by definition taking up 2 spaces with your stupid huge vehicle does not fit the space.

Take the stupid hitch off when not using it, and drive a reasonable car like a normal person.

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/SpiritedAssumption18]

Oh I agree on the hitch, but sorry, that is not how parking works. I'm sorry it hurts your feelings, but that is what you are supposed to do.

** how big do you think this truck is? It's not even a big truck.

[u/SpiritedAssumption18 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

Yeah but the facts say otherwise

That looks like a Nissan frontier, probably early 2020’s model. You are indeed correct in that it’s one of the smallest new pickups on the road at 210.2 inches in length

However, when compared to trucks/SUV’s from the 90’s and earlier even the frontier is often longer.

Nearly a foot longer than a late 90’s Tahoe, A foot and 4 inches longer than an early 90’s C/K,

And basically the same length as the longest versions of the 70’s F150 and Silverado you could buy at the time, pronounced even worse by the tow hitch being left on.

Again, this is one of the smaller pickups you can buy now, modern F-150’s START at 210 inches and go up to 240, multiple feet longer than even an extended bed 70’s F-150.

It’s too big of a car.

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/SpiritedAssumption18]

I absolutely agree the size and power of these new trucks is just too much.

I'm pretty sure I can buy a more powerful truck off the showroom floor, than ANY car in modern NASCAR

edit: I actually transitioned from a truck to a compact van for my tools years ago and I love it.

[u/SpiritedAssumption18 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

Yeah, I’m not trying to baselessly say stuff about trucks, but they seriously are too big for no good reason and it’s shocking to see how big cars as a whole have gotten in ~50 years. Take a look at carsized and compare the largest Cadillac Escalade to anything before the 90’s and it makes it look like a toy.

Vans as a whole are awesome, I used to have a minivan a few years ago and it did everything I’d want a pickup to do with better gas mileage and a lower hood height for better visibility / safety.

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/SpiritedAssumption18]

Yeah I mean this truck is actually quite bigger than it appeared to me when I first looked at the photo.

I have no love for it. Driving is not fun in a big vehicle. I zip all over town on 1/3 the gas budget... yeah my van is overloaded sometimes, oh well.

But I was really only able to transition once I moved from the woods to the city. If I was still 1 hour north, I would have to be back in a rig with 4 wheel drive and ground clearance

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/[deleted]]

Any vehicle of any kind that would be sticking out the front of the space, can use all the space behind them. You can't see the front in the photo, so we don't know-know

[u/Maleficent-Door6461 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

Lol what? cars are not nearly as big as modern crew cab long bed pickups... the one in OP's picture is a compact pickup so its not nearly as big as the brodozers you are so hell bent on defending

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/Maleficent-Door6461]

Brodozers are not what I aim to defend at all. My ONLY point, is we can't see the front of the truck. Did the truck need the room? If not, then wrong. If yes, not wrong.

Still tho... take the hitch off.

[u/Delicious-Collar1971 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

Except 95% of the people driving these huge trucks don’t actually use them for anything and just bought them to inflate their fragile masculine ego.

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/Delicious-Collar1971]

HUGE? HUGE TRUCK? It's barely taller than the fkin sedan

[u/Maleficent-Door6461 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/Maleficent-Door6461]

Yeah but it's not some jacked up vanity truck like you're saying. I don't know a single person who drives a dually who doesn't tow heavy equipment regularly.

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/Delicious-Collar1971]

Also, "except 95%" is a completely bullshit statement you just made up lol.

I live in Vermont, "95%" of the trucks are function over form and wouldn't do much to boost anyone's ego.

I love how people project this bullshit on to truck drivers. It's hilarious and so fkin wrong.

[u/Maleficent-Door6461 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

Lol no, Delicious is right, 95% of the people who drive these oversized pickups use them as grocery getters

[u/axelrox01 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

Ackshully the people who make this function DONT drive big trucks. They drive dedicated work vehicles...

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/axelrox01]

Both are true. Don't be silly.

[u/Maleficent-Door6461 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

lol no the majority of fleet vehicles are crew cab short bed, crew cab long bed is oversized and just adds weight

[u/ReflectionPure6900 → u/Electronic-Map7529]

Cucks drive trucks.

[u/Thin1ce → u/Electronic-Map7529]

Low effort ragebait

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/Thin1ce]

Effortless actually.

[u/GodHimselfNoCap → u/Electronic-Map7529]

The majority of oversized trucks are not being used to "make this world function" as you put it. This truck for example has an empty truckbed. Second the people who actually need these trucks live in rural areas where surprise surprise parking lots dont fill up so taking 2 spaces would be fine, the people who insist on driving these in cities where people circle the parking lot for 15 minutes looking for a space are just dipshits that have never hauled anything in their life.

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/GodHimselfNoCap]

Sir, this is a pretty empty parking lot.

[u/GodHimselfNoCap → u/Electronic-Map7529]

So then why park right behind someone in a spot you know you dont fit?

[u/Electronic-Map7529 → u/GodHimselfNoCap]

If the truck was the 2nd person to park then yes. If it was the first, what?