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Very urban perspective. If you are a contractor or farmer in rural America, there is no way to survive without a good sized truck.
by 9cb14c1ec0 4mo ago
Very urban perspective. If you are a contractor or farmer in rural America, there is no way to survive without a good sized truck.
- trinix912 4mo agoThere’s plenty of rural Europe too, but Europeans mostly use vans (tradesmen) or tractors (farmers) instead. Both have much better visibility than those tall trucks with a long hood, at least from my experience.
- tumdum_ 4mo agoDid you know that only 1,6% of US population works in agriculture compared to 5% in Portugal? See https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/employment-in-agriculture-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/employmen...
- Helloworldboy 4mo ago[dead]
- LearnYouALisp 4mo agoUh huh, and how far away is everything? What kind of work?
- tinyplanets 4mo agoPlenty of oversized trucks and SUVs in urban areas. The majority of the population in the U.S. is considered urban, so why exactly is the "urban perspective" not legitimate?
- ElijahLynn 4mo agoWell from my experience visiting Portugal, there's tons of farming there and they didn't have all these oversized trucks. I wonder how they do it... It seems uniquely American to have these huge trucks and most of the people here don't even farm. They just use them to flex.
- Marsymars 4mo agoI dunno, my dad was a farmer when I was a kid, and he did fine with a series of compact pickups. (Some 80's Toyota thing, then a Nissan hardbody, then a Chevy S10.)
- ErroneousBosh 4mo agoSo why do they they have these useless American pickups like Ford F150s? You can't put anything in them. They've got a load bed that I could *just* about fit a couple of sandwiches in. Everyone here in the UK uses Ford Transits. How do you use something like an F150 to move plasterboard sheets?