Honestly, this should be a ticket. Parked vehicle outside of a parking spot, obstructing traffic, etc.
"Well what else am I supposed to do?"
Use the truck parking spots.
"But they're far away/nonexistent"
Take a cab or otherwise figure it out.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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"What, do you expect society to accommodate your special needs vehicle? You some kind of woke commie?"
Exactly.
Just because your vehicle doesn't fit in parking bays doesn't mean you can just park anywhere you like.
“Well what else am I supposed to do?”
Don't care, that is your problem. I have a similar response to people complaining about roads not being increased in size because cars are getting larger. The road was here first, you then decided to buy a larger car. Really it seems like a you problem.
yeah, it's too big for the spot
simple
I get piled on every time but no one needs a modern pickup. There is a more suitable vehicle for your needs if you are in trades, and a pickup isn't it. Need people space? Same deal.
What do you suggest for the trades? A van?
Or an older pickup with equivalent bed space and no weight wasted on a second row of passenger seats.
Okay how old? We talking pre 2008? Because anything before that are pigs on fuel, perform significantly worse, and lack of basic saftey features.
Do you have any numbers to attach to those claims?
Efficiency has improved over the decades despite the trucks getting larger: https://carbuzz.com/ford-improved-f-150-fuel-economy-five-decades/ you'll also see how the old inefficient engines had less power than the new more efficient ones.
Electronic Stability Program became mandatory in the US in 2012 and the EU in 2014. I've driven a '05 Grand Cherokee that didn't have it (or even traction control if I remember correctly), though German cars mostly started getting it in late 90s or early 00s. ESP can be an absolute godsend in the winter because unlike your right foot, it can control each wheel's brakes individually to prevent skids.
It's not just trucks, all vehicles have gotten safer and more efficient over time because of regulations that have forced manufacturers to adopt new technologies. I've never heard anyone question this before, as it's so widely known.
You have my thanks, for I did not have the energy for that!
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They still make single row ones. We have many at my workplace. Usually tradies that work for larger businesses or local governments use them. Smaller trade businesses generally the dual/super cab ones. They do have their uses but most people don't use them for that purpose.
Ranger XL single cab or Hilux single cab still around. The Holden Colorado was my favourite as someone that did a lot of long drives but that doesn't exist anymore.
At the end of the day, most people want to drive a bigger car because they feel safer when though the bigger vehicles are the problem.
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Yes, obviously, but they are already making pick up trucks that have a sealable bed. They also have pick ups that have a raised construction on the bed with a roof. Next step is a double door on the rear and they will just be vans again.
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Yes, that is what they all use here because its just better. A roof keeps your tools dry and if someone wants to steal it they need to break in rather than just grabbing it.
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D’uh. Vans are more lockable, there’s more space, you can just walk straight into them, they have much shorter hoods so that more of their length can be for storage than for just being long for the sake of it, and they are way more modifiable than people think. A work van is still body-on-frame so they’re perfectly capable towing vehicles to boot.
Trucks do one thing better, and that is having a bed that can be removed/taken up for more useful things like fifth-wheel hookups and towing rigs. I guess you can also maybe put a single haybale in there, but actual farmers who aren’t cosplaying don’t move their shit one bale at a time while pretending they’re Ford Tough(TM).
U-haul rents pickups but there’s a reason you never really see them. Why would I go through all that trouble and cost and not at least get the van?
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Even worse they COULD make trucks that do everything new trucks do without being so huge. Kei trucks would do most of what people use American trucks for.
Hell, American trucks used to do everything modern ones do at half the size.
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Not for long
These will be pretty rare in 10 years time if things continue the way they are. That said I’m in a country adopting EVs, so YMMV
Ah, yes, because EVs can’t be made into giant ugly trucks
gahh, every time I see a Hummer EV, I think people can't get stupider
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10 years? The longer Operation Epstein Fury drags on, these guys will be struggling to gas up in months.
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Yeah, they will get even heavier so you will never see a road without craters in it
Maybe tracked vehicles will come back into fashion. Finally a RAM TANK half-track.
Yeah nah as time goes by it’ll go the other way. Batteries will get lighter as tech improves.
The argument going on about this reminds me of what my grandmother told me about the horse to car transition. Pretty much all the same stuff, including how big they were in comparison to a horse.
Fuckin gold
But people keep buying bigger cars. We are able to build small cars it's just that almost no one is buying them.
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I suggest vehicle length and width limits for parking lots. Parking fines for those who exceed them, and make the fines bigger the more the vehicle exceeds it.
At least where I live, vehicle technical data is publicly available by license plate, so it'd be trivial to implement too. The Europark guys will literally stand around and wait for your parking clock to expire if you stay for 2 minutes too long, how about they do something more useful instead.
Either it'll make people reconsider driving these large beasts in the city, or the owners of the parking lots get extra revenue. Either way at least it'll cost the giant truck owners money.
Honestly, requiring a separate license for larger vehicles would probably be more effective. It's already pretty common to have separate licenses for different classes of vehicles.
Make it require a more rigorous driving test, and maybe more expensive too. We should probably also outlaw consumer vehicles with such shit visibility anyway, but that's a different issue.
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I've had a ticket for not fully parking in the bay before, this should more than qualify
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It's obscene.
Antisocial behavior
Honestly, even if we ignore how obscenely selfish and un-neighborly this guy is being, even if we assume he only cares about himself and his emotional support vehicle...shouldn't that make him worry about that truck getting hit by someone driving by? How many times is he going to lose his truck's bumper because he parks it with the nose sticking halfway through the travel lane?
I bet that paint scratches easily
Those tyres aren't flat either. I wonder how that can be rectified...
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At some point “bigger truck” just becomes “public infrastructure stress test with cupholders.”
Pretty sure that point already passed
Time to make zig zag stiles for parking garages.
No women has ever orgasmed in that family.
With gas prices, they're screwed...
Diesel probably gets 1200km +- 200km per full tank approx 120L tank size. So 240$ cad for a full tank. It's still nothing compared to the new imports using turbo 4s and having to put in premium. Because of the NOx reduction legislation.
I absolutely hate these people parking in garages. I'm sorry but that shit is just absolutely unnecessary.
This, but in traffic unsafely blocking my left line of sight so I can't safely do anything until they take their sweet time trying to go.
...At least during a turn I can "use" them as protected cover.
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