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Even my company work van is only like… 15ft long… and it can fit basically anything I’d ever need to use for construction related needs.
My work van is about 1 & 1/4 parking spots long. We got a smaller van recently and it really is more difficult to fit everything for a big job. Luckily we work rurally mostly so parking is not an issue. Some industries really do need larger work vehicles.
For reference on our bigger jobs. We carry 300-500 foot rolls of piping. Once prepered for a job the roll has a diameter of 6-8 feet. We also need other equipment and materials as well as an overwhelming amount of tools available.
That’s definitely worth having an oversized vehicle for. I’m not questioning that at all. The supersized pickup with an 8ft bed and seating for 12 is where the fuck cars frustration comes in.
But will it compensate for having a tiny dick?
If it does, can someone tell me where I can buy one?
Edit: asking for a friend. Obv.
I’m sure that’s correct, as to the best of my knowledge you don’t need mattresses or couches in construction.
considering the “bed” is just over 10ft long and about 6ft tall, I could fit most mattresses, as well as most normally sized couches in the back too. A single king sized foundation would need to be angled though.
Yeah, and we don’t use mattresses or couches in Europe either because we can’t fit them in our cars.
You don’t like cars and yet you care how they’re arranged in a parking lot?
Somebody who dislikes cars uses one??
Impossible!
That’s right. You’re an “___HOLE” for buying a fucking 22 foot long truck and then trying to use it as a car.
I mean, the meme says at an IKEA parking lot. If ever there were a completely valid time to use that truck and park it in a lot, that’s it.
I once fit an IKEA mattress, bed frame, and slats in the back of my hatchback, with enough room leftover to make a grocery run.
And that’s the most anyone could ever need to haul at once from Ikea I guess?
Why at once?
I too have filled a hatch back with Ikea stuff and panicked the whole time thinking it wouldn’t all fit and I’d have to return something. If I had a truck I would’ve brought it.
I’ve done that too back when I lived in the city, with the bed boxes all the way up into the front of the car, interfering with my stick shift if I hit a bump or slammed on the brakes, and just generally being unsafe. My point isn’t that it’s impossible to buy things at IKEA without a giant truck, my point is if you own a giant truck, for work or because you DIY constantly or own a boat or RV…this is literally the exact situation it’s built for. You CAN handle the situation other ways, but why would you if you already own a truck?
I hate giant fuck off oversized trucks as much as the next guy, and if this was sitting in someone’s driveway as their only car, with nothing to haul, a clean bed, and you only see them take it to the grocery store… Then yeah let’s all shit on them together. But everyone is so carried away with hate they’re dunking on a guy doing one of the best use cases for this truck and actually being polite about it!
Yeah I was mostly just poking a bit of fun lol. I don’t really agree with the sentiment that transporting flatpack furniture is the exact scenario for a 22 ft. long vehicle though. Like, IKEA furniture is explicitly designed to be light, compact, and easy to transport so that you don’t need a large vehicle to haul it. That being said, bringing your giant pickup truck to transport IKEA furniture is certainly a better use for it than a daily single-passenger commute.
If this person works in a trade that requires heavy hauling of equipment and matrials, fine. They need this truck.
If this person is using it to make up for personal inadequacies then fuck them for buying a monstrosity that pollutes like hell and wasted gasoline.
To be fair, going to IKEA is a defensible application for a vehicle like this. Some of those flat packs are pretty bulky.
I believe Ikea have their own vehicles.
If we’re talking working at IKEA as like a delivery guy yeah but as a normal dude you don’t need a full size pickup for a once a year thing even I a dude who lives in the middle of nowhere Vermont and have to haul firewood to stay warm during winter my willies jeep does the job just fine and that’s a car that doesn’t even have a bed I just have a crap ton of horsepower and a trailer people forget that jeeps entered the civilian market as a work vehicle for farms and lumber yards
You’re going to purchase a 22ft truck just for Ikea trips? How often are you going to Ikea for large furniture?
Perhaps there are people who don’t keep a fleet of differently-sized trucks so as not to overshoot.
Right, so these people are going to drive a 22ft truck everywhere because they might go to Ikea at some point in the next 5-10 years?
I went to Ikea with my Honda Civic and strapped my order to the roof of my car. It was awkward for 1 day instead of being awkward every single day.
Silly. For whatever reason they have access to a big truck. Going to IKEA today: do I take the Toyota Starlet or the big truck? I’ll take the big truck.
Maybe they’re doing work that involves moving a bunch of furniture around and they get a portion of it from IKEA?
You can just lease a car from IKEA though
It’s easy to figure this out. Just look in the bed of the truck.
If the truck bed is clean and empty, you’ve got yourself a Pavement Princess.
if you look at the bed and it’s empty, but dented and worn, you high the owner of that truck if you see them for using it properly.
If it has shit in the bed and it’s pristine and mint, you scowl at them for owning a new truck.
What if it’s full of empty Coors Light cans?
Domestic abuser.
There are smaller trucks that many tradesmen have been using without much issue
There’s also much longer vehicles that suit different purposes that people use without issue. We have no idea what their day-to-day work is and this might be the best possible option for them.
The small dick kill the environment type trucks usually don’t focus on long truck beds.
And those longer vehicles aren’t really made to run errands or fit in regular parking lots.
The picture in this case even says this truck is at Ikea. Is a furniture store where you might be loading lots of big shit really not a use case where bringing a long bed truck makes sense?
They aren’t, but not everyone can afford two vehicles. I can imagine a person getting an extended cab truck for both errands/family and work. And if this is the case, what are they supposed to do?
Vehicles are expensive.
Are those tradesmen hauling heavy equipment like the above commenter mentioned? A small van works great for a plumber, not so much for an excavation company. Although i doubt this guy is about to dig up the ikea parking lot.
the only road vehicles longer than 20 feet that i know of off the top of my head are busses, and box trucks, and im guessing this is a box truck.
Neither of those are cool enough for someone with a small dick to drive as a daily lmao.
Looks like a dodge ram pickup. Stock they are 229 inches long. That’s 19 feet. If they have a front cattle guard and some kind of towing accessories in the rear it could be 22 feet. Hopefully a work truck, and I assume it is with the note… Otherwise definitely small dick energy hahahahaha
I have to park my work van like this a lot but I always park it at the back of the lot when I do, but would you rather have me blocking traffic to the parking lot if i tried to park in a spot normally? No, you wouldnt, and I probably get asked not to do that again by the store.
What an asshole.
He realy is
For buying the stupid vehicle in the first place.
I feel like you’re an asshole if you buy a 22 foot long pickup to take to IKEA.
So you volunteer to be behind him on the freeway as he brings home an entertainment center, a quadruple order of meatballs, and a set of bunk beds piled out the back of his Honda Civic? Ikea is one of the most logical places to drive the big truck.
You can fit that in a normal pickup. I don’t think IKEA sells anything that requires a 22 foot long pickup. Also, who buys entertainment centers and bunk beds on the reg?
Who’s to say he drives this to town on the reg? That’s what the Civic is usually for.
I would confidently bet a good amount of money that this truck is their main go everywhere truck and most probably has never been used to haul anything besides shopping.
If you’re going to buy furniture surely you’d need something bigger if you want to take it home yourself?
I’ve bought tons of furniture and had no problem at all with my 16 foot long truck that fits in one parking space. I don’t think IKEA sells anything that wouldn’t fit in my truck.
It’s Ikea, king of the flat-pack. You could fit literally an entire room’s worth of Ikea furniture in a subcompact hatchback, depending on which pieces you buy.
(Okay so that’s on top of a tiny car, not in it, but you get the idea.)
Not that everyone doesn’t do it (I definitely have on my Subaru Outback), but cars typically have really low weight allowances on top since they’re usually not designed for hauling on the roof. Even my Outback, a car that comes with a rack and all kinds of accoutrements for it, has a 150 pound limit. So you really don’t wanna put much IKEA furniture out there to risk damaging your roof, especially if you hit a bump. Also, damaging your roof or the frame can sometimes total your car, because it is a main safety feature for accidents in which you roll over.
First of all, that’s an important safety tip, so thank you for mentioning it.
That said, I wasn’t really intending to suggest carrying stuff on a roof rack. The text of my comment was about hauling stuff “in” – as in, inside of – a small hatchback. I just included that Beetle pic because I wanted something showing the amount of stuff you could fit in a small car and couldn’t find anything better.
Yeah no prob. I think most people just…don’t read their owners manuals. Not just sedan owners either. You see it with big trucks too where people haul stuff that’s WAY too heavy for their brakes, or load trailers with the weight all towards the back (asking for fishtailing). Sometimes I think it’s a miracle any of us survive day to day.
Yeah, I learned from experience that my old Ford Ranger can fit more compost in the bed than the suspension can handle. I made it home safely, but that was definitely an uncomfortably sketchy drive.
That looks very similar to how I got a bunch of flatpak furniture home on my Subaru Forester with the roof rack. I can haul tons of stuff in my Subi without much trouble. I just remember to bring some ropes and bungie cords if it’s going on top and we’re good.
If it’s too much (I’m looking at you, 12’ firewall sheetrock - that project was a removed) I did the sane thing and got it delivered.
Does IKEA carry roofracks?
Look, I couldn’t find a good picture of a bunch of Ikea flat-pack boxes inside a hatchback. Consider the pic I used “representative,” not literal.
The point I was trying to make is that that volume of stuff would easily fit in, for example, a Hyundai Accent subcompact hatchback with the rear seats folded down. (I know this for a fact because I used to own one.)
The only reason it needs to be on the roof of an old air-cooled Beetle is that the engine is in the back.
Maybe, maybe not, it’s best not to try to find out until you’ve bought a few large items and then consider it last minute.
Getting yourself into tricky situations due to lack of planning and then making up solutions on the spot are some of the most fun moments in life. 🌞
Please explain how taking a large vehicle to a furniture store makes you an asshole.
I don’t think ikea even sells furniture that requires such gigantic vehicles in the first place.
That said, furniture is an excellent example of why you could just drive a normal vehicle, a bicycle or a bus to go windowshopping and later have the new furniture delivered to your doorstep by a specialised company and/or vehicle or rent a specialised vehicle for the odd occasion. The cost for society will actually be a damn lot lower.
Because its too long to park without sticking out into traffic?
Like I don’t care what you’re using it for, if you cannot park it properly, then don’t take buy it or at least don’t take it with you.
Most vans and pickups aren’t even that long so it’s not even as if it’s necessitates being that long either.
True heroes do this.
Good to see JD Vance take this girls for a ride.
Fantastic. I couldn’t make out what was in between the couches at first and then realized it’s a crt/plasma big screen that probably weighs 400lbs. The couches are held at the bottom though by one rope so looks good. Can’t imagine anything going wrong.
Good old Louisiana
Ikeas have super large parking spots, they have parking spots for big vehicles and buses. If your car can’t fit there, you bought the biggest asshole car in the universe
If you have a 22 foot long truck, you should understand that normal infrastructure is not built for you. Either park way at the back of the lot where you’re not inconveniencing people, or on the street.
No one said this guy wasn’t parked at the back of the lot.
It doesn’t look like he is, but sure, he might be.
Is there such a thing as a 22ft long truck? I sure as fuck hope not and now I’m afraid to look it up. My guess is they were towing a trailer.
Dodge Ram can be 21’+
It also implies, statistically speaking, they have a DUI.
Who down voted you? Now technically given the rarity of drunk drivers actually getting caught, you’re probably wrong but only for the wrong reason.
Statistically, though, pickup trucks are more likely to get into accidents. They have a higher per capita accident rate even in many rural areas where there aren’t even as many people to hit.
And the dodge ram is literally statistically a 2x multiplier for DUIs
Compared to average? I wonder what’s on the lower end.
My F-250 is right at 20’ long, with the 6½’ box. With an 8’ box it would be banging on 22 feet.
Fortunately, it’s not about “need.” I wanted one of these behemoths since I first saw them back in the early 2000s. Now that I have one, the cost of diesel keeps it in the driveway, or I’d be taking it everywhere.
BTW, it gets used. I’ve hauled 3,000 pounds of tile in the bed, and still has 250 pounds of payload to spare. On another trip, 1,500 pounds of dog food. A freezer. A full-sized couch and loveseat. Bookshelves. A bed. A king-sized mattress. A 6’x6’ desk. 2 powered recliners. If we’d had ramps, a Harley Road King. I almost had to haul a buddy’s 350 Chevy V8 and transmission, but the sale fell through at the last minute.
I’d like to see your Honda Civic/Miata/Volvo do any of that.
I’ve hauled in the 1500-2000 lbs ballpark in my Benz wagons. I know a guy who has done ~4000 on a trailer attached to a 90s Civic (no, that was not all that legal or safe).
Big trucks are kinda cool (as long as you don’t drive and park like a douche), but they’re far from the only way to transport goods. A diesel wagon will get better mpg hauling than your truck will running empty. Plus if you rent a trailer, you can’t scratch the bed of your truck (or spill anything in your trunk)
Wow you’re so very cool and so so very powerful
Yes, crew can with an 8ft bed.
I don’t see them often, but they are almost always used as actual work vehicles. Very few people who want a “big” truck want a long truck. It’s just a total pain.
I don’t see it that way. Long vehicles at IKEA, Lowe’s, hell when Michael’s – I don’t care. Their parking lots are built for that. And the stuff they get.
Long vehicles in a fucking Trader Joes, definitely asshole material.
That’s why they have loading areas. Park your land yacht way in the back of the lot or on the street until you’re ready to put your flat pack couch in it.
But they’re not only driving to Ikea. They’re on our roads and streets and pedestrians and cyclists.
IKEA started as a furniture shipping company (thus the flat packages and the warehouse aesthetic) and many furniture companies like IKEA still ship to your doorstep or beyond often for a similar or better price compared to what individual transport costs.
there is also value in seeing and testing a variety of products in person.
yes, the sane way to buy furniture from Ikea is to visit the showroom to look at everything in-person, and then give them your address for delivery of anything very large.
Except for the part where they charge extra for delivery. If I’m driving there planning to buy large items I might as well make sure to bring a vehicle that can bring my purchases home with me. Usually that means a trailer - and unlike delivery, renting a trailer at IKEA is free where I live (provided you’ve bought something).
what do you do with the trailer when you get home?
Bad faith: “Are you really transporting those products back and forth to test?”
GoodBetter faith: Seeing and testing furniture doesn’t imply not using shipping.Speculation: For many, use value of products seem less important compared to short-term novelty value, i.e. owning over using. Celebrating ownership might require immediate access regardless of location, showing ability to HAUL the products then displays further power.
You think this is just his ikea vehicle?
Yea you’re right they should buy a second smaller car for when they go to certain stores…
If it weren’t for insurance I’d be doing exactly that. My truck was in bad shape, but would still get from A to B. I would have loved to replace it with a small, efficient vehicle. But you have to have liability insurance on every vehicle, which is idiotic because liability insurance doesn’t cover the vehicle being driven.
Yea but the the environmental cost of a second fucking car would completely negate any efficiency benefit it would offer, no?
For shopping at Trader Joe’s whole they’re trying to dissolve the NLRB, yes, also the truck thing
What happened to them? I remember back in the day, they were the place where employees from other unionized supermarkets aspired to work, and when they got there, they were happy as clams and in it for the long haul.
They got bought out, so they no longer have the same ethics.
It really depends on WHERE you park if you are going to park this way. Parking it in the boonies, way way out at the end of the parking lot? Saintly.
Parking it as close to the entrance as possible? Dungeon. 1000 years dungeon.
But generally I agree. This is the purpose of a truck. To haul heavy items that would not fit in a standard or small vehicle. But don’t buy a fucking truck for status or for your office job.
So the people carrying less items of smaller size have an easier time, and the person carrying the larger items to go in the larger truck have to go further away?
Ah yes, logic.
Why not have large parking spaces near the front to accommodate this, not expect people to just park somewhere else.
IKEA and home depot both have loading zones typically where after you’re done shopping you can go get your truck, bring it to the front, load up, then be on your way. Costco and Best Buy will let you do it too for big TVs or furniture, and I’m sure other places don’t care either. I’ve definitely parked in the fire lane in front of a Harbor Freight to load up a super heavy hydraulic press and no one cares.
Sam’s Club (a warehouse store similar to Costco that’s owned by the same company as Walmart) does the same thing. They have a small loading zone in front of the store for people with big purchases.
If you’re buying things that necessitate the truck, you won’t be carrying them. You’ll be rolling your order out on carts. It’s a non-issue to have to roll it a bit further.
How about backing up the truck bed into the entrance doors, so when you get done, you just load it straight into the back of your truck, THEN exit the building, and drive off?
Launched into the sun.
Ikea does have loading zones for this purpose.
Typically you don’t PARK in a loading zone.
The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.
Yeah, God forbid he wants to actually take stuff home.
That said, if you’ve got a huge truck (and I live in the country and work blue collar so I get it, sometimes you need one), have a small car too. Trucks aren’t cheap, you can afford a Civic for the city.
I’m sure lots of people have stories about getting huge loads home from IKEA in a tiny car.
I once got two 10’ tall wardrobes and a matching dresser home in a Volkswagen.
You’d be amazed what I can get in the back of my 2008 Mini.
I am this person. Packing half a house of furnishings into a Mitsubishi Mirage and then driving like 90 miles back to my house.
When I bought my Miata, it came with a small utility trailer. I’ve used that trailer to transport home an 8’ tall, 4’ wide, solid wood pantry cabinet – not flat-pack; a custom-built, very heavy antique. Now, I’m sad to say I didn’t actually use the Miata to tow it in that instance (I think I used my old 4Runner instead), but the point is I could have, and it would’ve worked.
I have transported a 7 foot long TV entertainment stand from ikea in my Mustang.
You think taking a large bedded vehicle to a furniture store is asshole behavior? Well shit, I hope I can fit this entire bedroom set in my car… 🤦♂️
you know they deliver, right?
If it’s from Ikea, I can probably fit an entire bedroom worth of furniture into my two door Honda civic.
Everything they make is flat packed, and you have to assemble it into it’s 3D form after purchase.
I can stack so many of those Ikea items in my tiny shitbox.
I hate trucks and SUVs with a passion, but I don’t really get the hate here. I could barely fit two Billys in my 2015 Volvo V70, or our new kitchen table and chairs because it was too wide.
I’ll be installing a trailer hitch ASAP when we move because a trailer is always superior to trucks.
One that large to a furniture store that exclusively sells flat pack furniture, and parking it in an inconvenient way in the parking lot, yes.
You can fit an IKEA bedroom set in a lot of cars, and in all pickups with a >4ft bed.
One of those would be better at IKEA
And before anyone says the Vito isn’t available in the US - it is, it’s just called the Metris. And if you get the passenger variant, you can get 8 people in there.
And for the unlikely situation that vito wouldn’t do, there’s still stuff like the Mercedes sprinter.
I’m sure they’ve got parking spots far enough of that no one will complain. I’ve been to 5 Ikea’s, none have had full lots. This seems like a call to attention and drama. (Not sure on whose part.)
Dodge ram.
Statistically speaking they also have a DUI.
I did a thing with my personal property that doesn’t work in society but makes me feel special but I’m not an arsehole
I’ve never bought anything in IKEA that I couldn’t fit in a sedan. In the extremely rare occasions where I ever had to move something big like a mattress or a couch, I rented a pickup truck for half a day or used a trailer. I don’t understand people who buy a huge pickup truck as a daily driver “just in case they need it to move something big”. It’s extremely wasteful and they drive like crap.
If you rented the pickup for the day, you’d still have to park it at the IKEA… this particular situation would not be avoided by not owning the truck yourself
Yes it would, because you wouldn’t need an explanatory note for the occasional rental. The note indicates he does this all the time.
Right because he works ALL THE TIME.
Except if the side of the truck says “U-Haul” or “Home Depot” people understand you’re not the kind of asshole who buys and drives a fuckoff huge truck every day of the week.
The guy has printed a sign to justify parking like an asshole because he does it all the time in places where it is far less justified to use a truck like that. I’ll also say that I can rent a pickup truck that would fit anything IKEA has to sell and that would still fit in a standard parking spot.
Right, because they had absolutely no choice but to buy a truck so goddamn oversized that it can’t fit in a spot. Fuck that guy.
So much accusations and assumptions. What if the owner is a construction worker doing custom kitchen deliveries, and needs this monster for living. You sure can’t haul a kitchen kit in your man’s Toyota Aygo or Fiat 500.
What if he’s got to move these refrigerators? What if he’s got to move these color tv’s?
What if he’s got to move these refrigerators? What if he’s got to move these color tv’s?
That ain’t workin’. That’s the way you do it.
Yeah you play some music on the MTV
The cropping makes me suspicious. I don’t know what vehicle it is or where it is. Feels like engineered rage bait.
Exactly this here. Give people an open online discussion platform and they will turn it into Twitter.
You sure can’t haul a kitchen kit in your man’s Toyota Aygo or Fiat 500.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. With Ikea flat-pack cabinets and a small enough kitchen design (e.g. galley kitchen in a tiny apartment), I wouldn’t be surprised if you could fit everything except the appliances in one of those tiny cars.
Of course, it’d probably be easier to fit them on a bicycle with a proper trailer.
That’s an amazing trailer! Add in an ebike and you could haul almost anything you need for the vast majority of home projects.
You never tried that yourself, am I right?
What, the tiny car thing or the bike trailer thing?
I don’t have an Aygo/500 or a fancy Bikes at Work trailer, but I have hauled stuff in the Hyundai Accent hatchback I used to own and towed cargo in a cheap Instep bicycle trailer.
(I admit, a Hyundai Accent hatchback is quite a bit bigger than an Aygo or 500, especially with the rear seats folded down. It can hold enough that I’d be more worried about maxing out weight capacity when hauling flat-pack cabinets, rather than having sufficient cargo volume for them.)
I hauled my entire kitchen remodel home in a Prius.
Cool. How many trips? Would you do it for a living?
A van would totally fit for this sort of job, as you can just put your tools inside your van. If you need to carry something longer a mini-truck will do too. Pickup truck is an offroad machine and suitable for a lot of offroad application, but more often than not a lot of people use it on asphalt and 99%of the time not hauling anything.
The top 3 vehicle being sold in US in 2023 are all pickup. The accusation and assumption is very much warranted.
Then park in the back of the lot or on the street.
How about a rancher, car hauler, or farmer.
Far too many people have no concept for legitimate need for such a monster of a vehicle because they only know assholes who want a big truck for the sake of having a big truck.
How come not a single contractor, farmer or hauler needs one in any other country?
If you turned up to a building site in one of those you’d get absolutely laughed at for your fucking stupidity
Have you ever been to another country though? The kinds of cars handymen in Europe prefer are usually a van like T6 or Sprinter, the latter being 20 feet long. For a good pro, their van usually contains a supermarket’s worth of tools and materials nearly assembled and ready to use. You can’t just assume America is the only place that needs hauling stuff.
That was exactly the point I was making. For a contractor, a pickup is one of the least useful vehicles.
My point was that in other countries, everyone uses vans or lorries
Other countries have vehicles that are sized to accommodate the conditions; smaller roads, less space, and different emissions laws. America wasn’t built based on 1,500+ year old roads.
You can’t have an 8ft wide dually with a 20ft trailer to take an excavator to a job site in London, you need a lorry. You would be laughed at because you can’t maneuver that setup around and would get fucked in pinch points on a one-way street.
Said like someone whose driving test involves mostly ordering a burger at a drive through 😂
Yous’ll think up any excuse for your tiny-penis trucks despite nobody else in the world, including those in bigger countries with worse roads, requiring them
To be fair, the majority of truck owners have no need for the utility, and just want a big truck
You know what happened the last time I shopped at IKEA? I don’t have a big-ass truck. I didn’t need a big-ass truck. A huge-ass truck (carrying a bunch of other deliveries) delivered my purchases to my doorstep.
Let it stick out into “traffic,” since it’s just a parking lot. Better to have to drive around it than to take up an extra spot.
My work truck is a Silverado 2500 HD, so a pretty big pickup with a topper and a bed in the back that rolls out behind it to hold all the parts I need to repair things on-site. Because of this, I usually park halfway past a parking spot into the one in front of it (but far from the entryway) so I can extend the bed behind the truck without it going into traffic and causing a dangerous situation for me and other people.
One day while I was fixing something inside, some nosy Karen put a note on it saying I should buy a smaller vehicle if I can’t fit it in a single parking spot. Like, ??? I didn’t choose the model of vehicle and I parked that way to be as out-of-the-way as possible! But I’m sure they felt very smug writing that note. All I’m saying is you should never assume someone else’s situation…
I see your point and can agree with it to a degree. However, where I’m from, the sure amount of trucks that look like they have never been used for hauling, construction work, contract work, etc. is a large number. There are so many trucks here that I’d say about 1/5th of them are raised, extended axles so that the truck tires stick out from the wheel wells a good 3-6 inches, wider tires, custom muffler, aftermarket chrome accessories, aftermarket or custom grill, break light tint (for whatever fucking reason that makes sense to them,) and rarely a custom exhaust pipe to mimic semi-truck smoke stacks.
I straight up believe you don’t utilize your truck if I don’t see some dirt, dings, scratches, you’re hauling something, or see something in the back of your truck (which is hard to do when your fucking truck is ridiculously raised up.)
“Wow, your bed is in such good shape.” is great subtle shade throw at a truck owner.
I completely understand. I’ve caught myself saying to my fiance “that’s a work truck” a lot whenever I see trucks I like. I drive a truck that I use for work. My definition of a work truck is a lot like mine, not a small bed, if there is a lift it’s for function, not looks so unless you know what you’re looking at you don’t notice it. It’s got a single or extended cab and it’s got some dings and scratches. If you don’t know the size of the bed in your truck you don’t use it enough. I haul sheets of plywood and drywall often and an 8ft bed would be great but my 6.5 does the job just fine. I’m changing jobs so I don’t know if I’ll need it anymore but that truck was my livelihood for a long time.
i mean, most parking lots have back to back spaces, so it sounds to me like they’ve pulled in the first one, all the way through to the next one. I see no problem here, large trucks like this have to stop somewhere.
Beats parking in the lot sideways LMAO.
large trucks like this have to stop somewhere.
Do they? Are these big trucks necessary at all outside of a construction yard?
To be fair, its ikea. Its appropriate to have a truck there to carry a lot of furnuture back.
They should stop on the dealership lot lol.
My friend and I used a Uhaul to move cross country once, and it was hard enough for us to park places along the way, and we could mostly fit into normal parking spaces IIRC.
We had considered also pulling a trailer, but I have no idea how we could have gotten food in towns, parked in crowded lots, etc. It would have been a lot more planning if we had a longer vehicle.
Well at a furniture store I can understand. Maybe it’s someone from a business buying a lot of furniture.
uh yeah, have you ever seen a moving truck? They’re all large big box trucks, if you’ve ever been in a more affluent neighborhood you’ll have seen an RV, whether towed or not. You’ve seen garbage trucks (though those don’t really count, as do most other industry trucks)
especially considering this is relevant to ikea.
like i’m cool with bitching about f150s being large and shit, but trucks that are 22 feet long are a bit of a different story.
Yeah, it’d be like 4-6 spots if they did it sideways xD
double that if you’re really trying hard
When I drove a small school bus, and I needed to park it somewhere in between the times I was transporting students, I generally looked for a spot at the edges of the lot to back into, where the back of the bus would overhang over the curb (I made sure it would never disturb any sidewalk). Of course, I did several times see full-sized school buses diagonally parked across 4 spaces at the far end of a large parking lot; after all, there’s not much else you can do with such a large vehicle.
