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What, what if you already havea truck. You have to buy an extra car to go to the office now?
You don't need a truck. Get rid of it.
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.
Even handymen can work without them. My plumber and electrician drove hatchbacks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's an SUV, not a hatchback.
No, the Bolt EV is not an SUV. The Bolt EV is a subcompact hatchback.
That doesn't look very compact to me.
Try looking up an image of the Chevy Bolt online; it is very much a compact EV.
The driver doesn't even elbow the passenger changing gear, and there's even a center console.
Not very compact.
I like your interpretation, lol.
What does the friend drive?
In my case, an f350 to pull giant trailers for an auction business he runs.
it really is one of those "if you have to ask" problems
How do you know that?
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.
See, this condescending attitude is precisely why Lemmy is currently shrinking.
[citation needed]
If you already have a truck, you gotta learn from your past mistake and sell that thing for a smaller vehicle
But what if I need to buy lumber or haul a mattress to the dump?
Unless you're doing that sort of stuff super frequently you could rent one or borrow a friend with one. Should work out cheaper with the gas savings. That or get a station wagon.
But then someone else who presumably doesn’t need a truck will be driving a truck
Yes, sorry
No, you ride your bike to the office.