Basically if you're using a pickup as a commuter vehicle.

I use my truck as a truck, but it’s the only vehicle I own; with the prices of cars AND insurance AND put food on the table… forgettaboutit 🤌

.you probably don't make good life choices.

Hey! That’s beside the point! 😮‍💨 😔

Oh for sure.

I played sports in college way back in the day, and still stay up with a lot of my old teammates. Most of us are huge, but I still give shit to every one of them that have giant trucks.

But it's still funnier when the driver of a giant truck struggles to get in/out of it and can barely see over their own steering wheel. At a certain height interior space does become a factor, but as long as you "gangster lean" you can still fit in a normal vehicle.

But I grew up on an actual farm, I've been making fun of oversized trucks since my cousin jacked his truck up so high it couldn't pull a wagon anymore. And that was back when the small truck in OPs post was sold new.

Basically if you're using a pickup as a commuter vehicle..you probably don't make good life choices.

That is false for nearly everyone. Unless you are driving double the miles of an average person, the costs of a second car that is practical for 99% of your needs and a truck for that last 1% is higher than the costs of just driving the truck for everything. You have to make payments and taxes on the truck even when it sits in the driveway. You might get a small insurance discount for a truck you rarely drive, but your insurance on two vehicles is higher than just one.

People say "just rent a truck", but every time I look into that I discover rental trucks come with a lot of restrictions such that you can't use them as a truck (I expect a truck used as a truck to get paint scratches). And the cost is so high that it won't take many rentals to making having a truck the cheaper option (getting right of the car in exchange).

Depends on the pickup these days. There are several small options available now.

I recently lost my '05 f150 that I used for work to frame rot, so I got a '17. I've put two holes in the bed, through the bed liner, and I haven't even been treating it that bad. It's almost as though Ford doesn't want you to use it for work harder than carrying your yeti between kids baseball games.

My dad would always use the profits from growing tobacco on a new truck every other year...

One year he bought a new truck while we were actively putting the crop in a barn.

Truck was less than 48 hrs old and he was trying to pull a fully loaded wagon across a creek to get to a barn.

With brand new wet tires, he couldn't get out of the creek. So at like 11 years old I got to watch him put a brand new truck sideways into a tree because he was too proud to unhook and let someone else pull the wagon thru the creek. But he still got it in the barn.

He wasn't even that pissed, because the only reason to buy a truck, was to use it for actual truck shit.

My biggest gripe with modern trucks really. Have fun putting that new refrigerator you needed in there and then getting it out once you're home, and God forbid you put a toolbox behind the cab, you're climbing into that bed to get every little thing you didn't think you'd need because you can't just get it by reaching over the side.

if only they didn't give it headlights that blind people

nearly drove into one last night because it was coming up a small hill in front of me in my neighbourhood (on a curve) and I drifted left as I slowed down to ensure I didn't hit the pedestrians to my right. couldn't see a fucking thing because of its 'lowbeams'

Plus those corporations are the ones lobbying for those regulations.

Evolution doesn't have a direction. Being big is helping these trucks breed faster, so they're becoming more prevalent.

40 years ago it was common to put 5-6 people into the cab of the smaller truck. It wasn't comfortable for anyone but it was done. Worse however it was not safe for anyone (not enough seat belts) and so people died. Often those people were kids who should be in car seats, but instead were sitting on laps. If the weather wasn't too bad they would put some of those people in the bed of the truck (which could fit 15) instead of the cab.

He has a point, though, just not articulated as well as it could be. Someone is being a bit cheeky with this image, because those are two different classes of trucks, not just different models.

The one in front I believe is a 2nd gen (1998-2000) Toyota Tacoma which is a classed as a compact pickup. The one in the rear is a Ford F-250 Super Duty which isn't even meant to be their consumer pickup truck; it's a very definitely classed as a full sized pickup with its own heavy duty chassis and isn't even based on the F-150 anymore. Everyone and their dog does indeed drive an F-150 but not as many people are just running around in an F-250 just for the hell of it.

A less disingenuous comparison would be the old Tacoma in the front and a current Tacoma in rear. Trying to compare old and new Super Duties would probably be futile; those have always been huge.

Technically true is certainly a form of true.