Bloomberg: What’s Happened to Pickup Trucks?

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That's exactly what's happening. I've noticed a trend online of memes and videos mocking truck owners the past few weeks. I was wondering what was going on, now I have my answer.
Wow.
Too much "toxic masculinity".
 

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This paragraph says it all. Truly scary what could come down the pipeline from the government.

“There are many ways to untangle pickup trucks from this trap and rein in their most destructive excesses. Federal regulators could revise the EPA mandates that the largest pickups now avoid, and impose stronger rules on pedestrian safety to make trucks and SUVs less lethal. The tax code could be reformed, so businesses that purchase the largest commercial trucks aren’t rewarded with a 100% depreciation bonus on the first year. Cities could stiffen parking policies and raise vehicle fees so that such impractically scaled machines will be less appealing to buyers who have little need of their capabilities. But any such efforts can’t be merely “technocratic,” Daggett says — they must grapple with the broader societal forces that these supertrucks have tapped into.”
 

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I dig big trucks. And yeah, sometimes you do need to intimidate some slow ass driver that’s on the fast lane. F’em!
 

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The amount of beta males that will be walking on the streets of America in 20 years will be almost mind boggling. You can bet we will never win a war again.
 

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this kind of shit just leaves me at a loss for words.

"military grade aluminum" now makes it military hardware instead of a lame attempt to market it as being strong

no more 100% immediate deprecation on the largest commercial trucks - uhhhh, what does that make a Mack truck then? They act like that same bonus depreciation won't work on a car or f150 just the same.

Just like everything else, businesses will just pass these increases down to the customer, it won't change anything.
 

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From the article:
When you involve children in this exercise it starts to become really disturbing. My four-year-old son, for example, barely cleared the bumper on a lifted F-250 we came across in a parking lot last summer.

No, what’s disturbing is that your 4 year old already looks a little overweight and you’ve got him holding a giant soda in the pic.
 

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things are going too well in your life when you have the time to think this deeply into "pickup trucks"...and honestly think they're this big of an issue.

hope the author has butt aids.
 

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things are going too well in your life when you have the time to think this deeply into "pickup trucks"...and honestly think they're this big of an issue.

hope the author has butt aids.

#firstworldproblems

I mean come on, they're ****ing with a plastic potato. I guess this is what happens when you have no actual purpose in life
 

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I do not know where the writer is from but there as many girls that drive the "big trucks" as guys do where I am from. Could be we are just more bitch'n here than where he/she/it is from.
 

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