The communist Justin Trudeau wants to tax carbon π‘
But I need this vehicle to buy groceries π‘π‘
AX THE TAX π‘π‘π‘
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i just like how silly and absurd this truck looks
its like a satirical cartoon truck meant to poke fun of enormous trucks, except its real and unironic.
Itβs got nothing on an F650 super truck. Iβve driven past one on I35 outside of San Antonio, TX.
For a size reference, hereβs Doug DeMuro, 6β3β (1.9m):
this legit looks like a semi, but for people with tiny genitals
Itβs a class 6 medium duty work truck converted to a passenger truck.
These are medium and heavy duty trucks, they're like semi-lite lol (semi-semi?)
They make a lot more sense in literally any configuration other than pick-up truck.
Example:
"Semi trailer" actually refers to the trailer itself, not the tractor. a "full trailer" has it's own steer axle, think like a hay wagon. a "semi trailer" has it's steer axle provided by the tractor pulling it. a "cart trailer" is like 2 wheeled buggies put half the weight on the propulsion device, often a horse. Anyways, when people say "semi truck", they either don't know or are referring to the fact of what it pulls, not itself....use it to pull anything else and it is no longer a "semi tractor"
True , forgot about that. Then again, how often do you see that type of truck pull anything other than a semi trailer? I don't think I ever have
Where I am, they are often used to move farm equipmnt, but not on a trailer. They strap 2, 2000 lb concrete blocks to the frame over the axle, for traction, and then use them for moving pin hitch farm equipment. "A trains" are also not "semi" trailers, least the back one, and the triple trailers you see UPS and hay farmers use in the west half are full trailers.
Ah yeah, I only ever see full trailers in this configuration:
Not really common practice to hook them up to a conventional "tractor" (we call it a "saddle" truck here), usually they're hooked up to the type of truck where there's a fixes trailer as well (as seen on the picture)
Might just have something to do with length limitations in the EU compared to the US (it's also why we have cabovers rather than the cool looking US trucks)
Canada, they allow 2 semi trailers hooked together, a "B-train", B trains make much more sense, unlike A trains and your picture, they can be backed up easily (with a skilled operator) around a corner. I could manage backing up both those conveyances in your picture, but the bottom one would come fairly easy, the top one would take a fair bit of practise.
My picture is significantly shorter than a B-train. We have length limits here as streets are narrow and the trucks in the picture have roughly the same wheelbase as a normal tractor
Not really the poinnt bud, was talking bout the hitch
Trucks actually started selling more when the first started mimicing the looks of semis. I think dodge was one of the first to adopt that mindset which was basically everything on the front end gets bigger.
the tiny dicked people are all around us then!
More like a commercial vehicleβ¦.
How many bananas tall is Doug?
...when it absolutely, positively, has to measure fuel economy in gallons per mile...
...international XT: accept no substitute...
^(^ ^i^ ^saw^ ^one^ ^parked^ ^at^ ^the^ ^taco^ ^cabana^ ^off^ ^brook^ ^hollow^ ^about^ ^ten^ ^years^ ^ago:^ ^they're^ ^formidable^ ^in-the-metal!^ ^)^
Is it custom or actually sold?
If I remember correctly, it is custom built from a base f650 (front end and frame) and they put an f350 bed on it as part of the passenger truck conversion