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[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

From the US here. They have uses as work trucks but the majority of these bro-dozers are pristine and have have never hit any water deeper than a pothole in the road.

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Everyone I know in the US that owns trucks like what op shared are all work trucks for general contractors or were bought to pull their giant campers. I know the bro-dozer community you're talking about but those trucks are not usually new trucks like op's. This is in rural America tho not the suburbs so maybe it's different in other areas.

[-] BigPotato@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

A neighbor runs his own plumbing company. He's got an early 2000s Dodge and formerly an early 2000s Ford.

His main complaint about modern trucks, after the price, is the bed being too high for him to easily load and unload equipment.

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah I'm no mechanic but I think it's from the way their doing the suspension to increase tow load. I can't remember the truck models but it was the largest model vs the 2nd largest model had the exact same engine size and sp3cs but the larger truck had a way larger low weight than the other and I was told it all came down to the differences in the transmission and suspension. I 100% agree tho I have worked jobs that had trucks with beds that were so fuckin stupid high it turned loading/unloading to a 2 part or 2 person task. Once onto the tailgate. Second to move to front of bed when normally we could just give a good toss and load the truck in fraction of the time.

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