• Neato@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hot take: pick-up trucks should be illegal as daily drivers. You should need either a commercial license or permit. Vast majority of truck drivers don’t need them regularly as a truck or to tow; they’re just status symbols and make driving more dangerous for everyone else. Not to mention the inefficiency.

    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s an easier solution. A vehicle weight tax that actual laborers are exempted from. Weight is what damages the roads, so a weight tax would accomplish practical and ideological goals.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Bonus points for living on a 5 million dollar “rural” property 1:30 from the city center where they work.

  • Afrazzle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Also always drives 130 on the highway and accelerates as aggressively as possible. Then they post on Facebook complaining about the new carbon tax.

  • BigNote@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t care what anyone says, it’s just a fact that the vast majority of people who use these huge trucks as daily drivers do not actually need to. Obviously there are exceptions, but they are relatively uncommon.

    I use my mid-sized pickup as a daily driver, but that’s because I used to need it and my work situation recently changed. My plan is to get a little commuter car as soon as I can and use that as my daily driver and keep the truck for when I actually need it. The gas savings will pay for it, and again, I don’t even drive a full-sized pickup.