• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s past time to require a commercial driver’s license to drive one and a business permit on file to buy one. Your average person can rent one when they need the utility of a truck bed.

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      1 year ago

      the hilarious irony is that modern trucks are often useless for hauling any decent loads because they’re crew cabs and jacked up for no fucking reason. To purchase a truck with a large bed often requires a special order and weeks of waiting.

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        Those fucking pussies all cry like a little girl when you point out what a useless waste they are, and then start inventing all kinds of reasons why they need one.

        They are a recent creation; all the rhings you claim you need to haul with them are not.

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        I have a weird truck, it’s a ten year old F150 with a single cab and an 8 foot bed. It’s the only one I see that isn’t obviously a company truck, and it used to be a hardware store rental truck. It carries building materials, motorcycles, junk to the dump, all with the tailgate safely closed. I don’t like the little 5 foot beds on the crew cab trucks, it’s like you have this giant truck and all you can carry are small things. It’s as useful as a Ford Taurus.

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      At least, something more than a standard drivers license. A CDL covers things like air brakes or railroad crossing that aren’t necessary for most of the vehicles in question. But a more graduated standard, absolutely.