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[-] Jode@midwest.social 49 points 2 years ago

Or, what a "full size truck" in America is going to be in 5 years.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

The amazing part is that both vehicles in this picture get the same gas mileage!

/s

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Where is the racing series for them?

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Monday Night Rehabilitation!

[-] teamevil@unilem.org 2 points 2 years ago

Beef Supreme!

[-] Gorroth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you. Now I have to watch it once again :D

[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

There would be no overtakes. The thing blocks the whole track :) https://youtu.be/5oWiRKnAThU

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

So? Just get a bigger dirt track, like the width of a demo derby pit but a quarter mile track...

[-] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They should re-release Ivan Stewart’s Super Off-road & make this an unlockable upgrade.

You just drive around flattening all the jumps & crushing the other drivers.

[-] 50MYT@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

V8 supercars for the smaller one.

[-] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

saw one of these rolling coal at a Chic-fil-A

[-] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Don’t you start planting seeds for a Chik-fil-a food truck now…

[-] bloopernova@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

AKA my zombie apocalypse truck. You could stick a fair sized RV in the bucket and live there.

[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

Holy fuck thats giant! What are these things used for?

[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hauling at mines.

There are pictures of large pickup trucks (think Ford F250/F350) flattened like a pancake ~~fire~~ from trying to pass one of these without alerting the driver they're there. When you're on a mine, these things always have the right of way.

[-] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

“Toot. Toot. Mother fucker. I’m coming through.”

[-] Thebazilly@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, a new picture every MSHA refresher. No visibility on a haul truck when you have to climb a staircase to get into the cab.

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I imagine this beast doesn't exactly stop on a dime, especially with a big load.

Train rules apply. The train always wins. The vehicle with a staircase to the driver's cab always wins.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of the signs they used to have in Seminole County by railroads (could have been elsewhere as well)

"Big train, little car, are you passed the stop bar?"

[-] robotrash@lemmy.robotra.sh 9 points 2 years ago

I could be mistaken but I believe they move materials in rock quarries, at least that's what I saw on an episode of some discovery show many years ago. I still think about them regularly too since it's like 3 stories tall and has a stair case to get to the driver seat lol

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Moving lots of dirt/rock cheaply. Mostly in mining.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

I wonder what the overhang is for.

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When hauling for a quarry, it's to keep the cab & driver from being smushed when the bucket gets filled with a big pile of boulders.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Eh Bagger 288 would win in a fight.

[-] sizzler@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

These are the types of tyres, that when they blow have inch thick steel cable in the side walls that could decapitate three men in a go. Ask me how I know...

[-] Someguy89@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
[-] sizzler@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Didn't find them til they didn't report in for lunch...

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I'm so sorry

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

They we're decapitated, obviously.

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