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There’s diagrams that show the visual impairments such trucks have. They are worse than semi trucks and even an Abrams tank.
I don’t get how these people even feel comfortable driving something where you can’t see the road that’s in front of you for 10+ meters out. I just wouldn’t feel safe, there could be any kind of obstruction you can’t see on the road from 10m away but will still fuck up your day and/or life.
As a truck driver I get it. It’s nice to see more. The tradeoff isn’t worth it and not why they do it. I would bet my paycheck they never take it off road either. Which would be the only good reason to raise something that much. Truckers have a good reason to. They have giant engine and transmissions that need to last for the industrial work involved.
cabovers are almost exclusively used throughout europe and asia. it’s only america and australia that tends to use the big bonnet american style trucks.
there no real reason for it
To be fair the regulations on vehicle length and older infrastructure makes the cabover popular.
American style trucks(long nose) get better mileage on longer hauls than the blunt nose design. They also provide more cabin room. As a final note American audiences are conditioned for the long nose design and it’s difficult to find the imports here.
Having driven both I think they both have merit. In Europe an American truck would be impossible to maneuver in towns.
So that’s the “real reason for it”.
A lot of trucking is long-range. America is fucking big and not everywhere is served by ports, railroads, and tributaries.
Those roof-scoops and curvaceous hoods aren’t just for being sexy. They greatly increase aerodynamics and with it, range.
The important thing is that it requires specialized training and a license to drive something with such poor visibility. The pickups, any 16yo kid can legally drive.
I think there is a legal reason for no cabovers in the USA. Maybe something based on crash safety (for just the occupants of course).
There is a reason in Australia, the distances travelled and the enormous loads they haul require far more powerful trucks. Look up road trains. They are significantly more efficient than using multiple trucks.
Trains would be more efficient but Australia is too large and too sparsely populated to do everything with trains.
They are also safer for the driver than the Cab over style.
Power is not the issue. Cabovers can have just as much power as long-hood tractors.
It’s simple uneducated hubris. Nothing bad could ever happen to them because they are a Good American.
They don’t look or care. Their car is big enough that they’ll plough right through a bunch of kids before they even notice they’re on the sidewalk.
Agreed, but some people drive that way. It’s their road, get out of the way. I had a 1996 Dodge dually long ago for pulling a trailer, and its visibility wasn’t very bad, except for around the damn side columns. I got into the habit of leaning forward and back as I would turn so that I had some idea of what was being blocked. At one point we had considered upgrading to the big trucks like the F-450/F550, and I got into one to see what it was like. I could see EVERYTHING. I was like, holy shit, this is luxury.
Side columns like that should be illegal. I was driving my stepdad’s '21 Silverado 1500 crew cab a few weeks ago and was totally blown away when I almost pulled out in front of someone coming from the right in a big ass truck.
This attitude is really prevalent here. As in you don’t really need to see the road, just the car in front.
People scream blue bloody murder about bikes on the road.
Looking at those dumbfucks driving their emotional support vehicle in the city, they don’t seem to be comfortable
They are driving slow and can’t stay in their lane, as they can’t judge the distances correctly
They don’t care, as long as they get to drive their behemoth and feel powerful.
If they thought about things and came to good conclusions afterwards, they probably wouldn’t be driving this kind of car to begin with. The people who are driving it are probably not good thinkers.
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Should require a CDL to drive something that big. It’s a bus sized front end.
most of the buses in the next town over from me are f-350 and e-350s, so quite literally yes
Busses that size often don’t require CDLs, definitely don’t require a CDL B. A true bus is much, much bigger than a 350 (source, I drive a bus). An E350 has a GVWR of around 4-5 tons. I drive busses with GVWRs of 16-27 tons. (Their visibility is much, much better than this because the engine is in the back like basically all full busses)
neat! also fwiw where i’m at anything that seats 9 or more requires a cdl
Ah, where I am it’s “designed to seat” more than 16 for it to require a CDL. More than 9 seems more reasonable honestly, we have lots of non-CDL school “busses” here.
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My redneck ranch family has run over so. Many. Of their own dogs
WTF
I can’t reconcile the exterior with interior pictures. From the outside it looks like the inside of that truck should be the size of a large sitting room with a Chesterfield and some end tables.
Gotta cram the plastic shit and uselss tech in there somewhere.
Cupholders! Gotta have more cupholders.
Add in the amount of times I’ve seen people drive cars where their seat height puts their eyes at about 2 inches over the steering wheel.
I’ve known a few truck drivers like that, with the air seat almost as low as it can go. The only thing they’d even be capable of seeing is an air strike.
Disgusting cars, honestly.
Pretty sure it is, here.
Btw, what model is it?
It’s a Ford Super Duty 🤮
Aww man they need to get their numbers up in the competition of which trucks are involved in the most DUIs
Queue Vanellope Von Schweetz
They raised it aftermarket
Between what?
The headlights are at exactly the height to blind everyone who isn’t also in a truck as well. I’m convinced that auto manufacturers do this on purpose to force everyone into a size arms race.
This was an aftermarket raise, so not really the responsibility of the manufacturer in this specific case
Yeah it should be on the state for letting this thing pass basic safety inspection.
Shit like this shouldn’t be street legal.
Perfect case in point…this truck is parked on the street. If that spot is the last spot before a parking lot entrance, there is no way for people turning out of that parking lot to see if it’s clear or not. It’s a hail-mary every fucking time. There was one of these parked in such a spot outside my kids daycare every single day last year.
And if they were to file a police report because they were mysteriously smashed, they’d get in trouble for illegal modification, yes?
I agree but I think that car hoods should be higher. If you’re hit by one of these you’ll die slowly of organ pulverization. It’d be better to be hit in the head and die quickly of head pulverization. It’s just that the poor truck cannot reach that high so it needs to be BIGGER. Maybe stick some spikes on there too, and have an optional extended package for saw blades!
(/s in case it wasn’t apparent)
I just want my slightly smaller than a Tacoma sized truck with a small diesel that gets like 28 mpg. Is that really too much to ask?
How else are they going to advertise their tiny cocks without public indecency charges?
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Hey now, I’m 5’9" and a lady, but do you not care that women are on average 5’5" or whatever? Why scale it to men? Scale it to the average person, not the average man.
Ideally you should be able to see all the way down to the road. That is the reason I love the back up camera. It shows me ground level, mirror and looking back show me the human level view.
Don’t get offended for the sake of getting offended, jfc .
Would it be better if he used a banana for scale, because that’s all he’s doing. He’s showing how large the truck is compared to him, an average height American human male.
Wtf do you want, him to say he’s four inches taller than the average American woman and this truck should be illegal?
It should, btw. Pavement princesses in particular…there’s no logical reason for this to exist. Contractors in the entire rest of the world get by just fine with trucks that could fit in the cab of this monstrosity.
I remember driving from Houston to Dallas last year and seeing countless pavement princesses along the way. All unscathed and unloaded.
I saw one pickup truck with a trailer attached and it was a fucking Rivian.
OP is so sexist for not being exactly the average human height!
I think your brain has rotted. Use some common sense to think why the dude that is average male height mentioned average male height for a visual comparison.
