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Reminds me of the ad I saw for the Ford transit van - whose steering wheel can be converted into a 'desk'/laptop table: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a4549

Reminds me of the ad I saw for the Ford transit van - whose steering wheel can be converted into a 'desk'/laptop table: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a45497067/ford-transit-steering-wheel-tray-table/ https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a45497067/ford-transit-ste...

wildzzz 1y ago
I've rented pickup trucks before and I've always been so fascinated with the hanging folder rails in the center console. I have no need to work out of a truck but the fact that you could turn it into a mobile office is very cool.
- bluGill 1y ago
  It is very common. The foreman on a larger project drives a truck and uses it as an office. They need a truck for some activities so it can't be a car (often because the tools are in the back), but they are spend a significant amount of time in the truck doing paperwork. Large jobs will have mobile offices brought in for the job. Even if you are a small company (think pouring a sidewalk), you still need a place to fill out the paperwork so you can bill the customer.
  - SoftTalker 1y ago
    I can see that 10 or more years ago but these days I'd think that would all be done on a laptop or tablet.
    - HeyLaughingBoy 1y ago
      Lots of small businesses out there that still do everything with paper.
    - bluGill 1y ago
      You still are working with it for long enough to want to sit.
jihadjihad 1y ago
It looks like a great steering wheel that won’t fly out the window while driving.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
  that is a good idea!
potato3732842 1y ago
[flagged]
- wmeredith 1y ago
  We've got a lot of space.
- bluGill 1y ago
  There are a lot of work that a transit van can do that a mini-van cannot. There is some work a mini-van is better at. Don't make universal statements just so you can snark on someone else.
  - potato3732842 1y ago
    The only thing it can do better than a minivan is haul more boxes of bagged air and fit a bigger Amazon decal on the side. They're all around under-built and under powered (and high strung for the power they do make) for work vehicles (beyond light parcel delivery or passenger service) and are utterly inappropriate to be upfit into box trucks, or any other heavier work vehicle. Whether you're talking about Fiat, Mercedes or Ford they're all rife with engineering tradeoffs that are moronic unless you intend to sell into a market where government inflates the cost of fielding an older fleet and your customers will turn their fleets over rapidly (Europe) or a market where gas is expensive and labor is cheap (ME, Africa). Want me to go over each make/model and their characteristic failures? They're all crap that will be run circles around by a GMC Savannah in every category except fuel economy.
    - bradyd 1y ago
      A GMC Savannah is not a mini-van.
    - fragmede 1y ago
      Explain how to fit a GMC Savannah into a compact car parking space that's 5 feet shorter than it, with vehicles on both ends of that parking space and also the GMC is two feet two wide for, and I'll listen to how the Nissan NV200 or the Ford Transit van isn't a two ton truck. Obviously if you're hauling a 4 ft cube of depleted uranium, it's not going up be up to the task. But getting 25 mpg vs a two-ton work truck's eight mpg adds up. A lot if you're driving 300 miles a day. If you're a locksmith in a city your hauling needs are different than the general contractor or someone more specialized, that actually has one ton of equipment and a trailer generator to bring to the job site. The argument that light work vans are small and underpowered so no one should use them is the same argument as big pickups are big and stupid and no one should use them, just from the other direction. Different strokes, as appropriate, for different folk who have different needs than you.
fragmede 1y ago
For better or worse, "steering wheel lap desk" is what you've looking for, no Ford Transit van required.

wildzzz 1y ago

I've rented pickup trucks before and I've always been so fascinated with the hanging folder rails in the center console. I have no need to work out of a truck but the fact that you could turn it into a mobile office is very cool.

bluGill 1y ago
It is very common. The foreman on a larger project drives a truck and uses it as an office. They need a truck for some activities so it can't be a car (often because the tools are in the back), but they are spend a significant amount of time in the truck doing paperwork. Large jobs will have mobile offices brought in for the job. Even if you are a small company (think pouring a sidewalk), you still need a place to fill out the paperwork so you can bill the customer.
- SoftTalker 1y ago
  I can see that 10 or more years ago but these days I'd think that would all be done on a laptop or tablet.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 1y ago
    Lots of small businesses out there that still do everything with paper.
  - bluGill 1y ago
    You still are working with it for long enough to want to sit.

jihadjihad 1y ago

It looks like a great steering wheel that won’t fly out the window while driving.

GuinansEyebrows 1y ago
that is a good idea!

potato3732842 1y ago

[flagged]

wmeredith 1y ago
We've got a lot of space.
bluGill 1y ago
There are a lot of work that a transit van can do that a mini-van cannot. There is some work a mini-van is better at. Don't make universal statements just so you can snark on someone else.
- potato3732842 1y ago
  The only thing it can do better than a minivan is haul more boxes of bagged air and fit a bigger Amazon decal on the side. They're all around under-built and under powered (and high strung for the power they do make) for work vehicles (beyond light parcel delivery or passenger service) and are utterly inappropriate to be upfit into box trucks, or any other heavier work vehicle. Whether you're talking about Fiat, Mercedes or Ford they're all rife with engineering tradeoffs that are moronic unless you intend to sell into a market where government inflates the cost of fielding an older fleet and your customers will turn their fleets over rapidly (Europe) or a market where gas is expensive and labor is cheap (ME, Africa). Want me to go over each make/model and their characteristic failures? They're all crap that will be run circles around by a GMC Savannah in every category except fuel economy.
  - bradyd 1y ago
    A GMC Savannah is not a mini-van.
  - fragmede 1y ago
    Explain how to fit a GMC Savannah into a compact car parking space that's 5 feet shorter than it, with vehicles on both ends of that parking space and also the GMC is two feet two wide for, and I'll listen to how the Nissan NV200 or the Ford Transit van isn't a two ton truck. Obviously if you're hauling a 4 ft cube of depleted uranium, it's not going up be up to the task. But getting 25 mpg vs a two-ton work truck's eight mpg adds up. A lot if you're driving 300 miles a day. If you're a locksmith in a city your hauling needs are different than the general contractor or someone more specialized, that actually has one ton of equipment and a trailer generator to bring to the job site. The argument that light work vans are small and underpowered so no one should use them is the same argument as big pickups are big and stupid and no one should use them, just from the other direction. Different strokes, as appropriate, for different folk who have different needs than you.

fragmede 1y ago

For better or worse, "steering wheel lap desk" is what you've looking for, no Ford Transit van required.