Please help keeping these monsters of our streets. It will save lives.

    • cabbage@piefed.social
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      21 days ago

      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.

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        21 days ago

        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.