On Jan 8, 10:51 am, landotter <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 8, 9:10 am, "ilaboo" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > i see lots sof posts on this usenet about suv's
>
> > but let they and humvees are now passe at least in the bronx.
>
> > thing now are 1/2 ton pickups with cabs, 4 wheel drive and double sets of
> > wheels in the back.
>
> > also there is one person in my neighboorhood who drives a tractor trailer
> > cab
>
> > see this trend in your city?
>
> Seems that every tradesman that would have driven a 2.4L four banger
> Toyota fifteen years ago, now has a gargantuan model with a V8. My
> neighbor uses a Dodge version of this obnoxiousness to haul a good 2-3
> gallons of paint at a time.
I see this said about working trucks all the time, and it annoys me.
Do you watch your neighbor all the time, to be sure that he only moves
a few gallons of paint? Do you follow him around to see if he's using
his vehicle in accordance with what you think is "necessary" to drive
such a vehicle? Is he a contractor, painter, carpenter or something
of the like?
If you lived across the street from my parents, you'd probably say the
same thing about my dad. Great big truck, fully lettered commercial
F250 long bed extended cab 4 door, to be precise. More often than
not, it leaves the driveway and comes home after with little enough
stuff in the back that it would be child's play for my short bed,
regular cab Ranger. There are also usually 2 occupants as well, him &
the pup, Sandy. However, when he leaves the house, he's off to work.
Step one is often to go round up the crew, whatever laborers,
painters, carpenters etc. don't have a vehicle or license. Now the
cab is full. Then it's off to the Depot, where the bed is loaded up
with lumber, concrete, tools, stones, pavers, etc. Once the truck is
loaded up like this, he doesn't go back to the driveway so the
neighbors can approve of his vehicle usage, he goes to the jobsite.
The stuff is unloaded, the job is started, and at the end of the day
the guys are dropped off. The truck comes home about as empty as it
left: Him, the pup and some odds and ends in the bed. Furthermore,
he spends an easy 30+ hours per week in this truck, and spending an
hour in my Ranger bothers his back. My ranger would also have a hard
time (read: totally **** the sheets) if I tried to pull a 12,000 lb.
GVW dump trailer.
An interesting aside, he gets better mileage overall with the new,
bigger, heavier 3/4 ton than he did in his old 1/2 ton, and the new truck
has a bigger engine to boot. When you factor in how hard the vehicle
has to work to move a load the larger vehicles make more sense. It
seems to me your self-righteous assessment of others vehicles is ill/
under informed at best, and makes you out to be a bit of a jerk at
worst.