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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You don't need a truck. Get rid of it.

[–] JohnDClay 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unless you work as a handyman or farmer or something, you don't need a truck. You can ask a friend or rent a trailer for the once in a year occurrence you need to transport something huge.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even handymen can work without them. My plumber and electrician drove hatchbacks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bullshit is a plumber or electrician working out of a hatchback. I've seen tradies working out of station wagons, and the poor thing is usually dragging it's ass on the ground like a dog with worms.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Neat, I'll let them know. But if you've any curiosity about it, the electrician is driving one of those seat delete Chevy Bolt EVs. I don't know if he bought it directly or converted his own, but the back seats are removed, and a flat bed is installed.

They look like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an SUV, not a hatchback.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, the Bolt EV is not an SUV. The Bolt EV is a subcompact hatchback.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That doesn't look very compact to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try looking up an image of the Chevy Bolt online; it is very much a compact EV.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The driver doesn't even elbow the passenger changing gear, and there's even a center console.

Not very compact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like your interpretation, lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked as a handyman out of a camry. It is possible, but not pleasant.

It's like telling an office worker that they need to work at a coffee table.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, fair, and to be clear I'm not suggesting that tradespeople turn in their work truck for a hatchback. Moreso saying that if tradespeople can make it work without a truck, certainly the rest of us can figure out a way to commute without a truck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JohnDClay 2 points 1 year ago

In my case, an f350 to pull giant trailers for an auction business he runs.

[–] funkless_eck 4 points 1 year ago

it really is one of those "if you have to ask" problems

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course I don't know that, but the vast majority of truck owners have no real-world use for them, other than massaging their ego. So sure, this was a conclusion I pulled out of my ass, but my assculsion applies to a lot of people, and therefore most likely applies to our friend here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, this condescending attitude is precisely why Lemmy is currently shrinking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

[citation needed]