Double parking should be an automatic tow even if half the lot is empty.
I’d be happy with small print that says you have to buy two parking tickets. Nice and small at the bottom so they don’t realise and just get slapped with a £90 fine whenever they park like it.
Being in Aus, a car park like this would most likely be free.
If I couldn’t find parking I would 100% do what the white car did (and have done before)
I went to work one day at Disneyland. And a truck took 4 parking spots, right at the front. The lot was packed, people were parking at the end of the rows not even in spots. I drive a very small car. My hood fit under their bumper so I parked in front of them in just one of the spots they took.
I came back to a nasty note on how they paid for 2 spots (but took 4) and how much of an asshole I was for parking in the only spot I could.
in parking lots, the parking is free, unless you’re in a parking garage or on a street meter, and even sometimes parking garages don’t charge admission. Though it’s less common.
These lots are almost always at a store, where people buy things, and the companies make money.
That’s not a little white car. That’s just a white car. Fuck cars, but fuck these monstrosities that wouldn’t be street legal in any reasonable country especially.
Nobody likes these fucks in the giant trucks. I run a condo and those trucks stick out about 2 feet into the driveway and fit tightly on the wide side. We started banning them and it pissed off a few rednecks, but if you buy a car that literally doesn’t fit in your parking spot, that’s your problem.
I’ve got an old F150 farm truck and I still make a point to park in east Jesus nowhere in a parking lot so I’m not in the way. It’s common fuckin’ decency.
same but then it never fails when you come back and it’s mysteriously surrounded by beater cars.
The old F150s actually got in parking spots. They’re quite a bit smaller than the current models.
Also, thank you for being courteous.
Yeah, I require a large truck for work. I haul a large trailer and work rural. If I didn’t need it, I wouldn’t blow money on it. I park out of the way on principle, and pretty much don’t bother with downtown areas anymore, sadly. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I wouldn’t sweat it. Folks don’t mind a truck that actually works driven by a courteous driver.
Just a heads up, farmers used to drive small trucks. They are easier to load and unload. How often do you use the bed of your big truck? It must be a pain in the ass. (If you don’t use the bed, you don’t need a truck. There are other vehicles with the horsepower that don’t have a ton of dead space in the rear.)
Horsepower isn’t all that matters. Torque and the ability of the frame and transmission to tow matter, too. If your response is “van”, check the gas mileage between a van and comparable truck. Vans tend to have worse gas mileage due to a higher frontal cross section. That gives them worse highway mileage.
Just let workers choose what they need. By all means, make fun of the people who use their oversized trucks to go to Starbucks and back.
ok so i want to pick your brain here. What would be the most effective way to prevent these idiots from buying these large trucks, but still allowing these larger trucks on the market for the few rare instances where people actually need them.
I’ve had a few thoughts, notably just making smaller trucks alongside these larger trucks, they’re going to be a lot cheaper and more efficient so market forces should do quite a bit of work there. Aside from there, i’ve considered just selling super duties and deleting the normal line, probably just leaving the duallies in all honesty. I’ve also considered just yeeting the bed and throwing a fifth wheel there as a standard feature, making it impractical for anything other than hauling heavy trailers.
Outside of this, i’m not sure, but i’m also not convinced most people that use these trucks even need them in the first place, even if they’re doing work.
may I propose periodically inspecting and auditing if the subject needs the truck and if not they are shot on the spot?
Or, for a serious answer: ban them but not the trucks like those used in Europe (have same or better bed length but look uglier). Make trucks back into work vehicles instead of status symbols. And firebomb GM.
Different user, but ending the loopholes on vehicle emissions/MPG would be a good start. Here is a good summary of the situation:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-loophole-that-supersized-cars/
Though IIRC the Biden admin came out with new, better rules to help with this.
Another way to deal with it is to build comprehensive public transportation, relax residential zoning regulations, eliminate parking minimums, build biking/pedestrian infrastructure, etc. Doing so will reduce car dependence and therefore the number of people who unnecessarily choose a huge vehicle.
Yet another way to deal with this, is to tax auto sales based on vehicle size. As of right now, there is little financial pressure to keep cars small, so manufactures play an arms race with each other to make bigger vehicles, because they’re safer the occupants, all at the cost of everybody else’s safety. Bigger cars also impart more wear and tear on public roads, so between these things they should financially contribute more taxes to compensate.
Let fuel prices rise to a realistic level. Make them primarily business vehicles. Push for heavy duty hybrids and full electrics. Fines and annual fees for fuel system mods which decrease fuel mileage.
Mind you, I doubt these would go down well. I am not your normal truck guy, at all.
I’ve noticed that one of the largest fleet purchaser of oversized mega-utes are the Mobile EV recovery companies. They take a Dodge RAM, stick a Diesel Generator on the back and they can drive around, rescuing the EVs that ran out of charge.
Because they are promoting EV use, they actually get carbon credits for this.
$130K?
Mate, the second he left the dealership, a piece of shit like that devalued to $FuckAll for obvious Australian reasons.
But enjoy the loan payments, being laughed at, and this shit whenever going shopping.
Does that rule still work? I was looking for a car last year and used cars were more expensive than new ones, but for new cars the wait period was 6 to 24 months.
Yeah this is a trend in the past two’ish years, due to the component shortages. Basically, auto makers have a bunch of new cars on the lot, which are all undriveable because they couldn’t source the components for the dashboard. They had literal parking lots full of nearly-built cars, just waiting on one or two small chips to come in so they can finish building it.
So as a result, the used car market boomed. Used cars suddenly tripled in price, because nobody could buy new.
