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How come not a single contractor, farmer or hauler needs one in any other country?

If you turned up to a building site in one of those you’d get absolutely laughed at for your fucking stupidity

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Other countries have vehicles that are sized to accommodate the conditions; smaller roads, less space, and different emissions laws. America wasn’t built based on 1,500+ year old roads.

You can’t have an 8ft wide dually with a 20ft trailer to take an excavator to a job site in London, you need a lorry. You would be laughed at because you can’t maneuver that setup around and would get fucked in pinch points on a one-way street.

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Said like someone whose driving test involves mostly ordering a burger at a drive through 😂

Yous’ll think up any excuse for your tiny-penis trucks despite nobody else in the world, including those in bigger countries with worse roads, requiring them

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You’re adorable.

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Have you ever been to another country though? The kinds of cars handymen in Europe prefer are usually a van like T6 or Sprinter, the latter being 20 feet long. For a good pro, their van usually contains a supermarket’s worth of tools and materials nearly assembled and ready to use. You can’t just assume America is the only place that needs hauling stuff.

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That was exactly the point I was making. For a contractor, a pickup is one of the least useful vehicles.

My point was that in other countries, everyone uses vans or lorries

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