Please help keeping these monsters of our streets. It will save lives.
Besides the obvious fact these trucks are too huge for European roads and parking spaces, America vehicles are simply hot garbage.
The Japanese and Korean vehicles for the American market aren’t any better to be fair.
It’d be nice to get them out of America, too.
And Canada. They’re everywhere here. Idiots only using them to commute to work every day.
“But I need it” Fuck off.
Here’s a due with a fukken Dodge RAM using it mainly to drive his daughter to school. It’s ~800 meters, and there are hundreds of little kids walking that same route. Way to go, you lazy idiot.
And Greenland. America as in North America and South America. Also do Afro-Eurasia and Oceania please. Don’t forget Antarctica.
Yes, please.
I’m a big bearded white guy and look like I should drive a stupid truck, or at least I would look that way with some shades and a baseball cap. Where I live is pretty white, surrounded by rural areas, so the trucks are everyyywhere. I doubt I need to convince anybody on here that these vehicles are bad, but I have a couple of observations from my perspective here in real america(/s).
I have a couple of friends who are those rare truck owners due to legitimate need because they are literal farmers, in addition to their day jobs (this is the USA, after all). Not only are their pastures on steep hillsides, but they only have huge animals like horses and cattle so that comes with pulling trailers and hauling bales of hay, etc. The trucks LOOK like they are farm trucks, their back seat areas in the cabs are dedicated to dogs, and the drivers are… petite women. 🤣 They are super nice and generous too, so I get to do the “have a friend with a truck” thing.
But, since I live close to a Home Depot, I don’t borrow one of the trucks unless I am buying 12+ foot (3.66+ meter) lumber or an appliance.
Every time I’m at Home Depot in old clothes with cuts on my arms and legs, loading standard 8’ (2.44m) lumber into my decade-old economy sedan, I’m surrounded by people who look like me demographically but are dressed much more cleanly and getting into shiny clean late model luxury SUVs or the hulking pickup trucks that cost even more.
Why are you in a European anti-US consumerism community trying to convince Europeans that utes (for Americans here: utility trucks) should have some social tolerance? Like, what is your goal here? Why do you even care? Why are you bothering with the effort at all?
Your comment confuses me because I was making fun of the truck owners.
Did enjoy reading the comment, thanks for sharing.
We have tractors over here in Europe, but our farms are also quite different. Maybe a compromise would be to allow American trucks, but only if they are registered as tractors with corresponding max speeds on public roads and highway bans.
I think a good first step over here in the US where the cat is already out of the bag (the pickup is already out of the barn? lol) would be to have some different licensing and/or registration requirements based on vehicle size. The same license that lets me drive my 1.5 ton mazda3 would let me go get a 4-ton Ford F-450 and pull several tons in a trailer at 75mph / 120km/h down the highway.
The farmers I mentioned in my earlier comment do drive their trucks as their ordinary vehicles, which is the norm. But to restrict that, and even moreso restrict the goobers who only commute in their vehicles that are 2x the size and 2x the cost of normal ones, I just don’t see how that is politically feasible any time soon in this country. People will lose their shit.
You couldn’t have linked the bloody video?
Thought I did, sorry. Fixed it now.
Wait until the CyberTruck arrives
It won’t because its exterior has too many sharp edges to be street legal. It will never be allowed in europe, not without a whole bunch of laws beeing changed.
You’re very fortunate as it’s a hideous abomination
Every time I see one turning or handling a slope it looks like the handling is traaaaaaash.
I will say that the wheels and tires actually look cool. On a different vehicle those could be very stylish for a city truck someone in Ft Worth or Atlanta might have.
I have a oddly hard time spotting Cybertrucks in the wild, I think it’s my brain trying to spare me the psychic damage of seeing such an ugly vehicle.
Your brain probably just thought it was a dumpster
I saw a bunch of them in California when we visited during the previous administration.
I suppose they could stick a bunch of goofy bumpers on it like the US compliant Countach. It might be the only way to make them uglier.
The only thing more stupid than these tacky cars are the people sitting in them.
They are plus sized.
Indeed, and they have no performance, even though they pretend to be high-class.
They have Smol pp mentality.
it’s so lovely to see body positivity among the progressives
Help how? I would love nothing more if I never had to see one again but I can hardly prohibit others from having one
Below the video you`ll find links to organisation competing this legislation. You can join those and support them.
If EU citizen, you can write to your member of the EU-parliament. Theres a pre-fabricated letter you can send in. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/search/advanced
He explains it in the conclusion of the video.
you can make sure that you treat the owners like the selfish assholes they are, though
might influence some of them, at the least it’s definitely better than nothing
They know they’re selfish, in fact to them selfishness is a virtue. So no, it won’t help at all.
Lobby against them, keyscrape, put anti- tinydickcar posters up, etc.
It’s hilariously sad watching these huge trucks driving like they’re corvettes on the highway.
I drove a few hundred kilometers on the highway the other day after a bit of snow fall, of course the four cars that I saw in the ditch were pickups
Seems like links to the video itself are missing in the post, here they are:
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-keep-these-stupid-american-trucks / https://youtu.be/--832LV9a3I
If only there was a youtube video that could summarize the issue for us.
Wouldn’t this be a suitable topic for a citizens initiative? Along the lines of the stop killing games movement?
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It’s posted in the top comment now
There should be a system in place where, while not banned outright, private ownership of these trucks is dissuaded and favor is granted to commercial contractors. I don’t know how such a system would be implemented but it would ensure that these behemoths stay off city streets. The obvious solution is to design streets that prioritize pedestrians and cyclists first, small cars second and commercial vehicles third but only if they’re actively used in commercial labor.
Some wealthy idiots in Europe will buy a handful of US pick-up trucks. The normal European would not waste their money on the insurance, emission taxes, fuel cost, and maintenance for that junk. Good luck parking it too. I always laughed when I saw a RAM on the Autobahn with the “AF” plates. Aral (Petrol Stations) were delighted when they had to fill it up off base.
Great
How?
Please let us yanks know how to do the same after you figure this out.
- Your friends across the pond
