Monster trucks are street legal there?
If it’s anything like the small town I live in, you can’t legally have tires that extend further than your fenders, but it’s entirely unenforced.
Folks love their lift kits and oversized tires
Why does a van need wheels that big?
To grab pedestrians and cyclists and drag them under. This is illegal in most states except West Virgina and Alabama, but elsewhere the police do not enforce the law.
In rain, the bro wheels throw up spray making visibility dangerous for other vehicles. But fuck them, because MURICAH.
In use cases duallies are for towing and weight distribution. They help with steering a bit, but for the most part that’s for handling very heavy things.
In this case big truck look more manly go BRRRRRRR
The guy that owns that truck would panic if he had to change lanes with a trailer.
So you don’t see the guts of pedestrians/cyclists/kids being run over.
When I see something like this, I agree with my country 72% taxation on gas. If they had to pay $8 per gallon like us, they wouldn’t buy those monsters
In California they often reach over 5$ a gallon, and will drive them.
They still buy them and then bitch constantly about how expensive gas is.
Those tires and lift kits cost them 20-30% more fuel, but engineering is for lefties.
No, they’ll bitch about gas prices being high because of Biden.
Thanks Obummer
Google says California gas and sales tax together are only about 71¢/gallon.
While we understand gas is expensive in California, relative to the rest of the us, it’s not expensing globally and 71¢/gallon is not much tax globally. The tax really needs to be much higher, for the cost of the roads and other costs to society. Google also claims this tax covers 80% of California road maintenance, so I’d argue it needs to be 25% higher. But that’s only maintenance, not new construction, and doesn’t at all cover the harm done, so really ought to be much higher
California has the highest state gas taxes in the us so the rest of us are much worse.
Hey! Have some compassion! Fragile egos need a lot of protection…
Yeah that’s his emotional support vehicle…
Its a gender affirming vehicle
This is fake the bmw isn’t double parked and the truck isn’t parked at a 45°
It’s not just the size that gets you. I mean yeah it’s stupidly dangerously large. The even bigger problem I find is none of them can drive it. None of them know how to turn with a truck. None of them can’t manage to back up in a truck. The Lord knows all of them think they have to every single time and it takes fucking forever. Too much car for their little dicks to handle.
I don’t get how mods like this are legal. The original truck was bad enough, but wow.
they are illegal in most states, but of course, after 2020 and Antifa, police stopped working.
They often aren’t. For instance the wheels protruding past the fenders too far is likely not legal. They just pull off the wheels and put on a stock set when the yearly inspection is due, then put the big ones back on when it passes. Cops don’t bother ticketing for this stuff.
You’re right, they’re definitely not going to ticket themselves
And they both drive like fucking assholes
I wonder why…
Cars should be taxed by weight.
Fuck those BEV drivers in particular?
BEVs would weigh less than most of these oversized trucks and SUVs, especially with the added lift kits, dualies and oversized wheels
Chevy Bolt weighs about 3600lbs
[Ford F150 starts at over 4500 lbs going up to 5500lbs for the gasoline models.(https://www.serrafordrochesterhills.com/ford-f-150-weight.html) (Another source says that the Lightning is around 6000lbs)
Chevy Tahoe starts at just under 5500lbs and goes up to nearly 5900lbs
So spot-checking it seems taxing by vehicle weight would impact oversized vehicles more than it would impact BEVs. Particularly if it was structured as “vehicles over 4,000 lbs, vehicles over 5,000 lbs and vehicles over 6,000 lbs” or even better something exponential beyond 4,000 lbs.
Combine this with a tire diameter registration fee (combined diameter of all tires on the vehicle, so dualies cost 50% more on top of the extra cost of 20"+ tires) and we should start getting somewhere with financially incentivizing smaller vehicles
2x the weight, 16x the street damage. But honestly, does every BEV need to be able to go 600 miles in one go?
The only ones that do are the attempts at extended range full sized pickups. They have an argument that it’s needed for towing and I imagine at least some actually tow.
My EV gets over 300 mile range and is lighter than any full sized pickup. I’d argue that’s a sweet spot since I can drive five straight hours on a road trip, about the same as for a gas car.
It can help make up for the loss of revenue from gasoline taxes. Roads have to be paid for somehow, and ideally the burden will fall on those owning vehicles and not society at large.
It can help make up for the loss of revenue from gasoline taxes.
UK is already going to tax EV owners from 2028 to make up for lost petrol revenue. Electric Vehicle Excise Duty or eVED.
That’s bs, gas taxes already don’t pay for road maintenance and too many localities seem to want to over-tax EVs
Let me counter-propose
- EVERY road vehicle be taxed by weight and mileage to cover road maintenance
- IN ADDITION keep a smaller gas tax to help pay for the additions harm to society and the environment of burning fossil fuels, AND to discourage this kind of behavior
This is fair to everyone - each covering their actual usage and damage caused, regardless of technology
Of course then we can go off into the woods arguing that actual trucks cause essentially all road damage but we do need those
Very True, vehicle weight also has a direct relationship with how much wear and tear they cause.
People buy much bigger batteries than they actually need anyway.
I’m in the UK, could you have a word with our Gov pls? They’ve just announced that my 90kg electric vespa will cost 3p/mile the same as my friends 2500kg BMW iX :(
But the government ministers drive the BMW iX. How will they afford higher rates per mile?
Probably running them as taxis for that sweet sweet free charging zone! :)
I have to apologise to the Gov, either they’ve changed their mind, clarified or it was just vicious rumour but it appears electric motorbikes won’t incur the per mile charge… woo hoo
Nah. BEVs aren’t actually much heavier these days.
They are in the US. Hummer EV is over 10,000lbs.
Tyres protruding that far outside the body are seriously dangerous and would be illegal here in Australia.
They are illegal in the States as well, but you’d need someone to actually enforce it.
Actually legal in WVa and Alabama, no suprise.
That isn’t surprising. They won’t pass inspection in the semi civilized states I’ve lived in, but things get sketchy really fast once you get out of the northeast.
That’s a relief. I do wonder sometimes about the US’s safety standards considering some of the pics I’ve seen. But yeah, how he doesn’t get pulled over immediately every time he leaves the house is baffling.
I don’t know if it’s actually policy but unless they cause accidents, modifications aren’t enforced by police. In theory they’re bought at annual inspections but many states don’t even have those and the ones that do are easy to circumvent.
This is the same issue with headlights. At least some of the issues with excessive glare are caused by aftermarket LED headlight bulbs clearly labeled “not for headlights” in the wrong reflector housing but legally sold if they can be used for other purposes. In theory caught by inspection. If the state has them. If someone looks. If the person doesn’t just swap them for legal bulbs to pass
While the police can do it here, we also have dedicated Transport Inspectors in the Department of Transport that specifically look out for that sort of thing. You don’t have something similar?
In PA it’s not allowed to go more than 3" widet than factory, plus the tires has to be covered with a fender so it doesn’t kick up debris or whatever.
And PA would be where exactly?
Pennsylvania, most likely
And the BMW is much better and nicer car to drive as well
The seats are so comfortable while waiting for the tow truck.
Don’t judge … that poor man needs that large vehicle in order to accommodate his extremely large penis and enormous testicles … the loud engine sounds are to warn others of his condition and let everyone know everywhere of what he has to live with … that poor man … it’s a real problem
What of the twat in the beemer? We just gonna leave him out of our hypotheticals?
I bet he’s never used a turn signal in his fucking life.
If the dough in the Bremerton hits me I fly over the hood. The dickless wonder in the truck can’t even see me walking and I’ll roll under the car and die.
I’m more surprised the vehicles are not swapped. Average BMW owner:
“Sorry about your dick buddy”
I can tolerate a dirty truck that’s all dented to hell, that person clearly needs their truck for some kind of work. A clean truck that’s large is just screaming “don’t look at my dick”
I was at Aldi yesterday and one of these ‘bad boys’ went to park and the guy jumped down from the high seat and he was shorter than me by several inches. I’m 5’6 I was laughing at how insecure he must feel in the bedroom
