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I ride my bike a fair bit and can you called it. Any time i am passed dangerously close it is ALWAYS a short-box pickup. One road I frequent is used by large

I ride my bike a fair bit and can you called it. Any time i am passed dangerously close it is ALWAYS a short-box pickup. One road I frequent is used by large commercial trucks (dump trucks). These guys are professional, and move way over giving me a LOT of space. oddly enough, the pickup drivers watch the dump trucks do this, and yet refuse to move over even slightly? i'm not sure what it is about people in pickups, but they need to do a better job educating the drivers as well. Like seriously, if you watched a dump truck move, why were you unable to do this as well? it isn't just about "visibility" but there seems to be some attitude problems around pickup truck drivers. If you see a pickup with some company logo, 90% chance they will be decent and give you space. You see someone in their "pavement princess" all washed and polished, no F'ing way they will move over.

SauciestGNU 4y ago
I can't agree with this enough, and I think it has to do with dueling cultural values. Especially because I live in a very purple area. My interpretation is that the pickup drivers endanger my life to "own the libs" (people who ride bicycles). What's more is that most of the trucks that act in this way have dealership license plate frames or stickers from the outlying rural communities, so they're coming into the community where I live and endangering my safety out of what I assume is some misguided hatred of environmentally friendly transportation.
- kennend3 4y ago
  Those short-box pickups and their drivers are terrible (and it is almost always a short-box truck with its micro 4-foot box?) My dad was in the trades and so he owned a pickup (needed for its towing capacity). It was a "proper" pickup with an 8 foot box as well. He built kitchens and needed a large trailer to bring the cabinets to the customers house and install them. The 8 foot box allowed him to load 4x8's into the back without the trailer if needed. I was forced to drive a pickup as well given I lived there and at the time it was the only car he had (later he got a compact car). I don't have any issues with pickups, they are a valuable tool for many in the trades. when i drove his pickup i moved over, it was a very simple thing to do and was basic human decency. The problem is the weekend-warrior types. I will never understand why they feel a need to do the things they do. Even buying these 4-foot box trucks makes little sense. I see them at Lowes/HomeDepot from time to time struggling to get 2x4x8's into the back while i can easily load 2x10x12's into my compact Hyundai Elantra and still close the trunk? like what did you get the truck for? There was a time you were looked down upon for driving a pickup (blue collar worker) now they seem to be some sort of status symbol?
  - dfxm12 4y ago
    now they seem to be some sort of status symbol? Part of it is marketing. You have a ton of commercials featuring trucks, treating them as glamourous. You even have Chevy sponsoring musicians to showcase Chevy trucks on their shows [0]. Plus, the price on some of these trucks (not just MSRP, but of course, including gas) outpace their utility, so yeah, some really are just a show of wealth. 0 - https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2016/jun/0610-bryan.html https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/home.detai...
    - rnk 4y ago
      One major advantage of a pickup truck is carrying dirty stuff without getting the inside of an suv dirty. Even a small bed can carry things. Small bed pickup trucks make them easier to park and drive, they must be more efficient too. I would have probably chosen an suv version of the rivian if it was available, but only the pickup truck version was. The SUV style of the Rivian should be more fuel efficient than the truck version. The suv is almost available.

SauciestGNU 4y ago

I can't agree with this enough, and I think it has to do with dueling cultural values. Especially because I live in a very purple area. My interpretation is that the pickup drivers endanger my life to "own the libs" (people who ride bicycles). What's more is that most of the trucks that act in this way have dealership license plate frames or stickers from the outlying rural communities, so they're coming into the community where I live and endangering my safety out of what I assume is some misguided hatred of environmentally friendly transportation.

kennend3 4y ago
Those short-box pickups and their drivers are terrible (and it is almost always a short-box truck with its micro 4-foot box?) My dad was in the trades and so he owned a pickup (needed for its towing capacity). It was a "proper" pickup with an 8 foot box as well. He built kitchens and needed a large trailer to bring the cabinets to the customers house and install them. The 8 foot box allowed him to load 4x8's into the back without the trailer if needed. I was forced to drive a pickup as well given I lived there and at the time it was the only car he had (later he got a compact car). I don't have any issues with pickups, they are a valuable tool for many in the trades. when i drove his pickup i moved over, it was a very simple thing to do and was basic human decency. The problem is the weekend-warrior types. I will never understand why they feel a need to do the things they do. Even buying these 4-foot box trucks makes little sense. I see them at Lowes/HomeDepot from time to time struggling to get 2x4x8's into the back while i can easily load 2x10x12's into my compact Hyundai Elantra and still close the trunk? like what did you get the truck for? There was a time you were looked down upon for driving a pickup (blue collar worker) now they seem to be some sort of status symbol?
- dfxm12 4y ago
  now they seem to be some sort of status symbol? Part of it is marketing. You have a ton of commercials featuring trucks, treating them as glamourous. You even have Chevy sponsoring musicians to showcase Chevy trucks on their shows [0]. Plus, the price on some of these trucks (not just MSRP, but of course, including gas) outpace their utility, so yeah, some really are just a show of wealth. 0 - https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2016/jun/0610-bryan.html https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/home.detai...
  - rnk 4y ago
    One major advantage of a pickup truck is carrying dirty stuff without getting the inside of an suv dirty. Even a small bed can carry things. Small bed pickup trucks make them easier to park and drive, they must be more efficient too. I would have probably chosen an suv version of the rivian if it was available, but only the pickup truck version was. The SUV style of the Rivian should be more fuel efficient than the truck version. The suv is almost available.