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The truck is not 74 tons, it's capable of moving that weight in cargo. Title update would be nice.
by sulam 3y ago
The truck is not 74 tons, it's capable of moving that weight in cargo. Title update would be nice.
- imoverclocked 3y agoThis is how trucks are referred to. A 74 ton truck is not expected to weigh 74 tons.
- sulam 3y agoThat's great. Do we expect the typical HN reader to know this? While I don't think I'm 100% representative, I looked at that title and thought "wow, that's a really big truck! Is it used for mining?"
- postalrat 3y agoWhat do you think the typical HN reader thinks when they hear "1 ton pickup truck"?
- el_benhameen 3y agoI’m all for keeping the original title, but thanks to your comment I’m one of “today’s 10,000” to realize what that term means. And I grew up around trucks!
- talldatethrow 3y agoEven better, when they hear commercials for America's best selling half ton truck, did they really think it weighed 1000 lbs?
- sulam 3y agoTruthfully I didn't think much about it, but yes I assumed that was their weight, in the same way that a heavy-weight boxer fights in a particular weight class.
- talldatethrow 3y agoIf you thought the large trucks people call half ton weight only 1000 lbs, you have such a disconnect with reality and the physical world that I can't even relate. If a half ton Chevy truck weighs 1000 lbs, what did you think a Honda Civic weighs? As much as the driver and passenger?
- imoverclocked 3y agoPlease give the HN guidelines[1] a glance. Some people don’t give much thought to trucking or weights or even vehicles in general; Their connection to reality isn’t based on needing to know those things. Some people even live in places without trucks at all. The world is pretty diverse! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rootusrootus 3y agoEven better, almost all modern "half ton" pickups have an actual payload capacity between 3/4 and 1 ton. Or even higher.
- smolder 3y agoI expect them mostly to know, and for those that didn't know trucks are categorized by payload to learn it from the comments, like this.
- nixass 3y agoI expect you open the article and read it in the first paragraph. Also it is industry standard to name it that way.
- croisillon 3y agothe truck itself weighs only 9 tons, it's the battery that weighs 65