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I wish I could repossess and crush any trucks like this that aren’t being driven through a swamp every day.
Monster trucks are street legal there?
If it’s anything like the small town I live in, you can’t legally have tires that extend further than your fenders, but it’s entirely unenforced.
Folks love their lift kits and oversized tires
When I see something like this, I agree with my country 72% taxation on gas. If they had to pay $8 per gallon like us, they wouldn’t buy those monsters
In California they often reach over 5$ a gallon, and will drive them.
They still buy them and then removed constantly about how expensive gas is.
Those tires and lift kits cost them 20-30% more fuel, but engineering is for lefties.
No, they’ll removed about gas prices being high because of Biden.
Thanks Obummer
Google says California gas and sales tax together are only about 71¢/gallon.
While we understand gas is expensive in California, relative to the rest of the us, it’s not expensing globally and 71¢/gallon is not much tax globally. The tax really needs to be much higher, for the cost of the roads and other costs to society. Google also claims this tax covers 80% of California road maintenance, so I’d argue it needs to be 25% higher. But that’s only maintenance, not new construction, and doesn’t at all cover the harm done, so really ought to be much higher
California has the highest state gas taxes in the us so the rest of us are much worse.
Gas taxes that don’t even cover road maintenance are too low.
Gas taxes that don’t cover the externalised cost of emissions are also too low. But I don’t think any jurisdiction taxes that way.
Why does a van need wheels that big?
To grab pedestrians and cyclists and drag them under. This is illegal in most states except West Virgina and Alabama, but elsewhere the police do not enforce the law.
In rain, the bro wheels throw up spray making visibility dangerous for other vehicles. But fuck them, because MURICAH.
In WV this would fail inspection. The rule is water cannot pass off fender wells onto the tire. People do just swap out before inspections though. There are no good reasons to need wide rims and tires as far as I know.
In use cases duallies are for towing and weight distribution. They help with steering a bit, but for the most part that’s for handling very heavy things.
In this case big truck look more manly go BRRRRRRR
The guy that owns that truck would panic if he had to change lanes with a trailer.
Dualies at least have widened fender wells and jist in back. They are nice if you actually haul 2tons+ (F150s say they can haul 2tons, but I’d never risk that much, 250s were created for a reason)
This appears to be a 250 or 350 with some bewildering off road modifications. No serious trail guy would take duallies off road. But he’s got off road tires and a trail light system on the front bumper. Unless he’s taking a full size camper up the mountain this guy is just an idiot. Actually that’s true in either case.
So you don’t see the guts of pedestrians/cyclists/kids being run over.
This is fake the bmw isn’t double parked and the truck isn’t parked at a 45°
Hey! Have some compassion! Fragile egos need a lot of protection…
Yeah that’s his emotional support vehicle…
Its a gender affirming vehicle
Tyres protruding that far outside the body are seriously dangerous and would be illegal here in Australia.
They are illegal in the States as well, but you’d need someone to actually enforce it.
Actually legal in WVa and Alabama, no suprise.
That isn’t surprising. They won’t pass inspection in the semi civilized states I’ve lived in, but things get sketchy really fast once you get out of the northeast.
That’s a relief. I do wonder sometimes about the US’s safety standards considering some of the pics I’ve seen. But yeah, how he doesn’t get pulled over immediately every time he leaves the house is baffling.
I don’t know if it’s actually policy but unless they cause accidents, modifications aren’t enforced by police. In theory they’re bought at annual inspections but many states don’t even have those and the ones that do are easy to circumvent.
This is the same issue with headlights. At least some of the issues with excessive glare are caused by aftermarket LED headlight bulbs clearly labeled “not for headlights” in the wrong reflector housing but legally sold if they can be used for other purposes. In theory caught by inspection. If the state has them. If someone looks. If the person doesn’t just swap them for legal bulbs to pass
While the police can do it here, we also have dedicated Transport Inspectors in the Department of Transport that specifically look out for that sort of thing. You don’t have something similar?
Our process is annual inspections but it’s per state. Each state is different and many don’t even. There are clear accident stat differences showing which states don’t.
In the states I’ve lived in, it is a service offered by a garage. They get licensed to give out inspection stickers. For each inspection they hook it up to a machine that logs emissions and go through a checklist of safety items to verify. In my experience they’re good at catching worn tires and brakes but never seem to check things like headlight alignment or window tinting. And my state is one of the stricter ones
In PA it’s not allowed to go more than 3" widet than factory, plus the tires has to be covered with a fender so it doesn’t kick up debris or whatever.
And PA would be where exactly?
Pennsylvania, most likely
Yep Pennsylvania.
Cars should be taxed by weight.
Fuck those BEV drivers in particular?
BEVs would weigh less than most of these oversized trucks and SUVs, especially with the added lift kits, dualies and oversized wheels
Chevy Bolt weighs about 3600lbs
Ford F150 starts at over 4500 lbs going up to 5500lbs for the gasoline models. (Another source says that the Lightning is around 6000lbs)
Chevy Tahoe starts at just under 5500lbs and goes up to nearly 5900lbs
So spot-checking it seems taxing by vehicle weight would impact oversized vehicles more than it would impact BEVs. Particularly if it was structured as “vehicles over 4,000 lbs, vehicles over 5,000 lbs and vehicles over 6,000 lbs” or even better something exponential beyond 4,000 lbs.
Combine this with a tire diameter registration fee (combined diameter of all tires on the vehicle, so dualies cost 50% more on top of the extra cost of 20"+ tires) and we should start getting somewhere with financially incentivizing smaller vehicles
My point was that BEVs can weigh significantly more than their equivalent ICE car. The goal should be to get rid of ICE completely and use BEVs where personal transportation makes more sense than mass transit. There is already too much of a push to make ICE cars more desirable than BEVs. I have serious doubts that taxing vehicles by weight would do a better job of keeping these monstrosities off the road than their own cost plus the price of gas does, but putting our legislative thumb on the scale yet again to discourage someone considering a small BEV versus a small ICE car seems shortsighted.
2x the weight, 16x the street damage. But honestly, does every BEV need to be able to go 600 miles in one go?
The only ones that do are the attempts at extended range full sized pickups. They have an argument that it’s needed for towing and I imagine at least some actually tow.
My EV gets over 300 mile range and is lighter than any full sized pickup. I’d argue that’s a sweet spot since I can drive five straight hours on a road trip, about the same as for a gas car.
It can help make up for the loss of revenue from gasoline taxes. Roads have to be paid for somehow, and ideally the burden will fall on those owning vehicles and not society at large.
Very True, vehicle weight also has a direct relationship with how much wear and tear they cause.
People buy much bigger batteries than they actually need anyway.
I’m in the UK, could you have a word with our Gov pls? They’ve just announced that my 90kg electric vespa will cost 3p/mile the same as my friends 2500kg BMW iX :(
But the government ministers drive the BMW iX. How will they afford higher rates per mile?
Probably running them as taxis for that sweet sweet free charging zone! :)
I have to apologise to the Gov, either they’ve changed their mind, clarified or it was just vicious rumour but it appears electric motorbikes won’t incur the per mile charge… woo hoo
That’s bs, gas taxes already don’t pay for road maintenance and too many localities seem to want to over-tax EVs
Let me counter-propose
- EVERY road vehicle be taxed by weight and mileage to cover road maintenance
- IN ADDITION keep a smaller gas tax to help pay for the additions harm to society and the environment of burning fossil fuels, AND to discourage this kind of behavior
This is fair to everyone - each covering their actual usage and damage caused, regardless of technology
Of course then we can go off into the woods arguing that actual trucks cause essentially all road damage but we do need those
It can help make up for the loss of revenue from gasoline taxes.
UK is already going to tax EV owners from 2028 to make up for lost petrol revenue. Electric Vehicle Excise Duty or eVED.
Nah. BEVs aren’t actually much heavier these days.
They are in the US. Hummer EV is over 10,000lbs.
It’s not just the size that gets you. I mean yeah it’s stupidly dangerously large. The even bigger problem I find is none of them can drive it. None of them know how to turn with a truck. None of them can’t manage to back up in a truck. The Lord knows all of them think they have to every single time and it takes fucking forever. Too much car for their little dicks to handle.
Don’t judge … that poor man needs that large vehicle in order to accommodate his extremely large penis and enormous testicles … the loud engine sounds are to warn others of his condition and let everyone know everywhere of what he has to live with … that poor man … it’s a real problem
What of the twat in the beemer? We just gonna leave him out of our hypotheticals?
I bet he’s never used a turn signal in his fucking life.
If the dough in the Bremerton hits me I fly over the hood. The dickless wonder in the truck can’t even see me walking and I’ll roll under the car and die.
I don’t get how mods like this are legal. The original truck was bad enough, but wow.
they are illegal in most states, but of course, after 2020 and Antifa, police stopped working.
They often aren’t. For instance the wheels protruding past the fenders too far is likely not legal. They just pull off the wheels and put on a stock set when the yearly inspection is due, then put the big ones back on when it passes. Cops don’t bother ticketing for this stuff.
You’re right, they’re definitely not going to ticket themselves
“Sorry about your dick buddy”
I can tolerate a dirty truck that’s all dented to hell, that person clearly needs their truck for some kind of work. A clean truck that’s large is just screaming “don’t look at my dick”
Those things are even worse on the road than they are when they’re parked.
I was at an underground parking lot in the city in Toronto once. We got caught in a long lineup of cars because some idiot in a jacked up F150 with no sense of scale thought it was a good idea to park his enormous truck here.
A bunch of us guys helped him out by hopping onto his bumper and weighing down the back end so that he could barely pass the height limit. I imagine he had the same problem on his way out.
I imagine he had the same problem on his way out.
Somebody could have done him a favor and let all the air out of his tires.
And they both drive like fucking assholes
I wonder why…
I’m more surprised the vehicles are not swapped. Average BMW owner:
