Chonnawonga@sh.itjust.works to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoTell me again why you need a pickup truck.sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square124fedilinkarrow-up1552arrow-down128
arrow-up1524arrow-down1imageTell me again why you need a pickup truck.sh.itjust.worksChonnawonga@sh.itjust.works to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square124fedilink
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·3 months agoWhere I live, hunters use a Lada 4x4 or a Suzuki Jimny. Farmers use tractors. Tradesmen use vans. Heavy machinery contractors use flatbed trucks. A pickup truck just seems like the worst of all worlds.
minus-squareFireRetardant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 months agoI would hate lifting a moose into a modern truck, the bed is 3-4 feet off the ground. I’d sooner put a tarp in a minivan and use that.
minus-squareBastingChemina@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-23 months agoI’m still seeing a few Fiat Panda 4x4 being used too.
minus-squareoctopus_ink@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoIf you hadn’t written what you wrote, I would have been sure that was (amazingly) a Yugo.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoI can see that. It just needs true 4 wheel drive and a short wheelbase.
minus-squaren0clue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoI mean if you’re getting a load of mulch… You probably need a dumptruck
Where I live, hunters use a Lada 4x4 or a Suzuki Jimny.
Farmers use tractors.
Tradesmen use vans.
Heavy machinery contractors use flatbed trucks.
A pickup truck just seems like the worst of all worlds.
I would hate lifting a moose into a modern truck, the bed is 3-4 feet off the ground. I’d sooner put a tarp in a minivan and use that.
I’m still seeing a few Fiat Panda 4x4 being used too.
If you hadn’t written what you wrote, I would have been sure that was (amazingly) a Yugo.
I can see that. It just needs true 4 wheel drive and a short wheelbase.
I mean if you’re getting a load of mulch… You probably need a dumptruck