SUVs and trucks are UNIMAGINABLY worse. I'm not a fan of e-scooters, they need a little bit of training to use safely and are still dangerous compared to an ebike. I would rather have ebikes replacing e-scooters everywhere they are now.
However, they are comparatively a nuisance compared to the menace of SUVs and light trucks killing pedestrians every single day.
Yup. as a huge truck driver and also as a bicyclist, I'm always very aware of bike lanes, especially these mergey-switchy areas. I have been the bicyclist in this situation before and I have been hit by a car in even less-dangerous traffic patterns before. I'm very conscientious about bicyclists when I'm driving.
Have you ever towed anything? Towing a trailer of that size and weight with a car like that, even if legal, is sketchy as fuck. Especially on hills or mountains. Where I am from its legal to take that picture, it’s not legal to get on the road. For good reason. A capable truck is much safer for that purpose, for everyone.
Nobody does work out of that truck, it has a bed cover and the wheels don't look like they have any mud or dirt caked in the tread/wheels. It's a little pavement princess that probably carries one person 75% of the time.
Towing capacity, payload weight, carrying 3 more people, bed width, drivetrain?
I think many trucks are way too big, and it's silly to own a big work truck if you just use it to go to the grocery store but it's really about so much more than bed size.
In addition to the payload. Payload goes in the back! Fill it with stones then put five men in it to shovel the stones. You'd need two vans for the same purpose. And if it's roughly the same size, what's the problem? Vans like that can be nice too, we see lots of Ford transits here in the states for tradesmen. Similar use case to what you're describing.
So why not just use the van? At least the cargo space is covered from the elements. Most people who drove these yank tanks don't actually need the truck part.
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