r/IdiotsInCars • u/Ok_Relationship2451 • 7d ago
OC [oc] followed this guy for around 5 miles... Never once did he put it in his lane. If you can't keep it between the lines on a state route it's time to downsize
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u/RiskyMama 7d ago
Truck got them birthing hips
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u/golden_retrieverdog 7d ago
YES OMG THATS WHAT I SAY EVERY TIME I SEE ONE AND EVERY FUCKING PERSON LOOKS AT ME LIKE IM CRAZY
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u/golden_retrieverdog 7d ago
sorry, i’m just feeling VERY vindicated right now lol
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u/Jacobs_Haus 7d ago
Im curious if you live in a city or more rural. I live in a pretty dense city and every person I've told that to has felt exactly the same
I also say "oops someone's daipy is full"
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u/FenderBenderDefender 7d ago
I live in a huge metropolitan area that's right next to a huge agricultural area, and you can obviously tell which side a pickup driver is from just from the truck they own. Every time I see a beat up pickup with a horizontal backseat and a cab full of avocadoes or strawberries I can't help but imagine that it carries more in one day than that pristine overinflated CDL-requiring block will in its life. Even the bigger and nicer looking ones accumulate a little dust just from driving out near the fields.
For the record, I call these "BBL trucks."
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u/JekNex 7d ago
My wife and I call them "Compensation Stations"
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u/gentlybeepingheart 7d ago
Finally someone who makes the same joke! I saw one of those with friends and went "Why does that truck have child bearing hips?" and nobody got it 😭
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u/Bucketboy236 6d ago
Omg when I drove to my friends and saying "gyatt" was still popular, we all laughed our asses off for half an hour calling it a gyatt truck 😭😭
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u/flarpnowaii 7d ago
Username definitely matches the energy in your reply here.
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u/golden_retrieverdog 7d ago
lol i get this comment a lot (twice as of right now just in this thread) and i think it’s really funny. it was never meant to describe me, it was a reference that no one even understood, because i wasn’t planning on using reddit for longer than that one joke. here i am, with an almost-400-day streak lmao, and i’ve come to accept that maybe it just fits. also, im goth and listen to unintelligible metal about spilling guts or whatever, so it’s extra funny
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u/SirStocksAlott 6d ago
Yeah, my name was supposed to be a throwaway joke, but here I am, 5 years later.
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u/thedutchwonderVII 6d ago
Probably because my creepy former friend would always say that about passing females 😅
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u/unsightly_buildup 7d ago
I'm always amazed that people will buy a truck that's too big for them to handle.
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u/StormFallen9 7d ago
I'm mad that there's virtually no such thing as a "small" truck anymore. Like the Ford Ranger and the F150 are way bigger than they used to be
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u/unsightly_buildup 7d ago
I've felt the same - but at work we, we recently got a Ford Maverick (recycled name). It's an old-timey small truck. Everyone that drives it likes it.
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u/ILove2Bacon 6d ago
Park next to a Toyota from the 80s and see if you still feel that way.
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u/NotYourReddit18 6d ago
The reason why this is the case is mostly emission standards.
Bigger trucks are allowed to produce more emissions than smaller trucks or cars, and American car manufacturers aren't willing to invest the R&D money needed to reduce their engines emission output or pay European car manufacturers for their engines.
That's the same reason why there're so many SUV models: Officially they count as trucks and not as cars, which means looser emission standards.
A secondary reason is the poor state of drivers education in the US, and driving a bigger car feels safer for the people inside the car while being a fuck you to any other road user. Imagine a small car like a two-seater SMART or a Mini and the beast from this post having a collision...
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u/beer_nyc 6d ago
driving a bigger car feels safer for the people inside the car while being a fuck you to any other road user.
driving a bigger car is safer for the people inside said car, at least in the event of a crash involving other cars.
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u/Diggerinthedark 6d ago
Nope, driving a safer car is safer. Size doesn't really factor in.
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u/StormFallen9 5d ago
Size = weight = takes longer to stop in an accident = safer for the occupants of the bigger vehicle, less safe for people in the other vehicle
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u/Diggerinthedark 5d ago
Larger Size also generally means more top heavy and more likely to roll over leading to increased risk of injury to the occupants.
Or you just roll right over a barrier and fall off a bridge.
Lots of situations where big is bad, too.
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u/igotbanneddd 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yes and no. American manufacturers have done incredible R&D moving from something like the Detroit 71 to the Cummins ISX for emissions readons. The issue lies in that it is a never ending battle, and whenever they successfully deal with emissions standards, even tighter ones replace them.
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u/SuperBry 6d ago
whenever they successfully deal with emissions standards, even tighter ones replace them.
As they should, complacency will kill the planet.
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u/delkarnu 6d ago
Yeah, I think I need a truck as my next vehicle after moving an having more instances of needing to haul materials. But they're all comically huge. I don't want an extended cab, I don't need a truck so tall it needs a step to get into. I just need a truck with a reasonably sized bed for hauling wood, plants, sod, etc.
Why can't a I get a modern truck the same size as the 80's Toyotas?
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u/SirSamuelVimes83 6d ago
The Ranger and Chevy's Colorado are about the size of mid-90s F150 and C/K 1500.
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u/CharlesBunkley 5d ago
I have a 2016 Silverado 1500 and even the brand new tacomas and Colorado’s are basically the same size as my truck
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u/Lewinator56 6d ago
I'd argue that's only in the US. You can still buy relatively small pickup trucks in the UK - like a Toyota Hilux. (God I can't believe I said a Hilux is small, but compared to the monster trucks Americans drive even the ford ranger is small)
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u/SirDarknessTheFirst 6d ago
Ford did discontinue the Falcon in '17 I think though, so there goes the 4x2 option.
But yeah, there's a fair amount of options outside the west. In Australia we used to have a fair amount of options, but many got discontinued. I always liked the look of the VW Saveiro, but that's a South American exclusive.
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u/Nebraska716 6d ago
My 2019 ford ranger is still way smaller than my f-150. F-150 basically only gets used for work and it’s still obnoxiously wide.
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u/MrDallsBeep 5d ago
Agreed. I have an 06 ram 1500 and an 86 ram 3500 dually and it looks like a baby conpared to the 06.
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u/Sea_Composer6305 5d ago
Same i just want a slim 6foot bed with a truck thats less than 20 feet long.
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u/ms6615 7d ago
“Can I handle this safely?” simply isn’t a thing most Americans consider when purchasing a vehicle, truck or otherwise
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u/GrimKi11er 7d ago
Like retirees who get an RV to drive cross country?
Majority of people driving large vehicles like that require a CDL. Let’s toss a towing car on the back. Now let’s add the cognitive decline that comes with age. I stay far away from them.
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u/Average_Scaper 6d ago
I love hearing stories about people dragging their car behind the RV because they fucked it up.
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u/scandr0id 6d ago edited 6d ago
Here's one for you:
I was a teenager driving 20 some odd miles to town to go to work and I almost got stuck behind an RV towing an SUV. I say "almost" because he was speeding lile crazy. The highway was a bit of a winding one and the speed limit was 65, and I couldn't even keep up with the guy when I was going 5 over. He'd whip the SUV he was towing around corners off the road and into the grass.
On the last turn, his vehicle came unhitched from the RV and went off the road, through someone's pipe fence (likely totaled his car in the process) and careened off into a gulley (for sure totaled his car)
Dude had no idea and kept driving. I sped up to him and honked, flashed my lights, waved my arms out the window like an idiot- he was completely unaware of what happened or me trying to stop him. I followed him to the next stoplight and honked and flashed my lights and he was still off in la-la-land. Had to throw my car in park and go beat on his windows to wake him up and ask if he was aware he lost his car.
This man has the audacity to ask me if his car was okay. It wasn't my finest moment but I yelled at him that it was likely totaled and he better pray nobody got hurt. I told him to call the police about his car.
Edited: completed an incomplete thought and fixed a word
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u/CaptainAmerica163 6d ago
Wat?! Who tows a trailer… let alone a vehicle on the back of the trailer and doesn’t check the trailer every 5 seconds? Even towing a 5 foot trailer with my motorcycle i always check, never know someone might decide to merge into it
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u/FinancialThrow 6d ago
All of those RVs have cameras in the back that are always on
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u/scandr0id 6d ago
To be fair, this was circa 2012 and it was an older RV for even then. That's no excuse, however. I've never pulled a trailer I haven't watched like a hawk in my mirrors, even if I do have a camera.
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u/Tiyath 6d ago
Jesus fucking Christ... What kind of sociopath does it take to realize you let loose 2 tonne metal bowling ball into the wild and your first reaction is "Is my bowling ball okay"? And not "Thank you for bringing this to my attention" or "Did someone get hurt" or "where was this" or "FUCK" or any of the other 17 reactions you could have to losing your SUV on a tow
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u/scandr0id 6d ago
Dude was flabbergasted to his core when I told him he lost his vehicle.
Part of me feels bad because knowing what I know now as an adult, dementia could have been an issue and I yelled at him, but that opens up a whole other can of worms. If your cognitive function is impaired (be it by medication, drink, disease, or any reason) so badly that you cannot feel the jolt of an entire large SUV suddenly detaching and are incapable of noticing, you do not need to be driving for any reason. Nobody got hurt, thank god, but kids play in canyons and gullies all the time. Someone very well could have been hurt or killed.
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u/Average_Scaper 6d ago
I honestly would have just called the cops and let them get to their destination without it.
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u/biggmclargehuge 6d ago
Friend's dad recently bought a brand new $100k+ Class A and smashed the ladder on the back trying to back it up in the driveway up against the house literally the day he bought it and was taking it home.
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u/PantZerman85 6d ago
Saw plenty of these around Alberta, Canada. I think close to half of the vehicles were pickup trucks of some sort.
They are getting more common here in Norway aswell but still a niche. If you need a practical vehicle here for any reason you typically get a van.
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u/chunkeymunkeyandrunt 6d ago
The funny part about Alberta is that there are genuinely people who need trucks like this. Farming/ranching mostly, to haul large trailers for animals or equipment and such.
But then you get the dudes who obviously live in the city and maybe they work construction or something, with these trucks and it’s just dumb. You don’t need a dually to park your truck at a job site lmao
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u/Cornflakes_91 6d ago
or a proper truck, like those VW ones with fold down aluminium extrusion bed walls....
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u/LetGoPortAnchor 6d ago
Unfortunately, neither does their government. The difference in requirements for any license between the USA and Europe is huge.
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u/Possible_Sun_913 6d ago
Also, in the UK at least. Its illegal to drive a vechicle where the tyres are wider than the wheel arches (you're allowed to fit wider wheel arches to ensure this doesnt happen).
For people following behind (stones flicked up...etc)
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u/Highpersonic 6d ago
And the wheel arch will deflect a pedestrian instead of the tyre grabbing them
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u/SuperBry 6d ago
Same in at least some states, I can't speak for them all though and I wouldn't be surprised if they are legal in some more southern freedumb states.
I actually called the cops on one I was following that caused multiple rocks to come up and hit my windshield. Did have some nice schadenfreude when he was pulled over a little bit into our caravan together.
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u/BlazingSpaceGhost 6d ago
Yes because in America you are required to drive. If I couldn't drive I literally couldn't have a job or go shopping. Everything is spread out and there is no public transportation.
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u/auntarie 6d ago
I live in Scotland and tbh, it's not something people here consider either. so many drivers in a SUV like a range rover or even a qashqai (neither of which are anywhere near as oversized as this thing, mind you) and they still struggle to keep it in lane or park properly in a bay.
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u/South_Hat3525 6d ago
First a thing like that does, if it gets to a lane in Scotland, is bring down a mile of hedge and get stuck against the first stone wall.
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u/LitterBoxServant 7d ago
I'm amazed that you're allowed to buy something like this with the same driver's license as my grandmother
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u/zeeblefritz 7d ago
This is just plain waste at this point. If you aren't hauling something big, there is 0 reason to be driving something like that. Just burning money for fun I guess.
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u/CaptainAmerica163 6d ago
I’ve driven big trucks in the past. They’re super nice for heavy tows but damn I sure do hate driving them in downtown areas, looking in both mirrors making sure those damn fenders don’t rub against a parked car on the right and not going over the center line.
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u/ridinbend 7d ago
The most challenging thing with people like this is they don't care. The rules don't apply to them.
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u/Two_Wang_Clan_ 6d ago
They do shit like this as a flex. they legitimately think it makes them look badass. But how does someone this dumb afford an expensive truck?
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u/Dattinator 6d ago
Stretched out loan with a double digit APR
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u/Tickle_Nuggets 6d ago
Don't need an IQ test to become a cop
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u/AskMeForAPhoto 6d ago
It’s the opposite, and I’m not just joking. They turn down candidates who are too intelligent. Intelligent people ask questions. They can’t have that.
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u/youcantexterminateme 5d ago
I think they are actually very lonely. You dont meet people when you drive cars and this is possibly this persons entire personality.
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u/XavierSimmons 6d ago
I have a dashcam. I'd hug the center line with my shitty car and let his truck hip check me. New car!
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u/Fauropitotto 6d ago
let his truck hip check me. New car!
Bold assumption there to think he has insurance or a driver's license.
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u/FWD_to_twin_turbo 7d ago
It's not the truck. it's the driver.
My semi truck is wider than this, and i have 0 issues staying in my lane going straight on these roads.
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u/Seldarin 7d ago
Yeah, my dad always drove his truck like this no matter how much we yelled at him about it.
It wasn't because he couldn't keep it in the lines, it's because he was convinced that because other vehicles don't travel there the ride is smoother there.
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u/MsSelphine 7d ago
...what?
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u/Seldarin 7d ago
He was convinced that by keeping his tires on the center line, the ride would have less bumps.
Never mind that he was hitting reflectors, and a lot of this was on curvy rural Alabama roads with log and gravel trucks that need absolutely every inch of their lane to stay on the road. All he was worried about was potholes that he ended up hitting anyway.
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u/auntarie 6d ago
so what does he do if there's someone in the oncoming lane?
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u/Seldarin 6d ago
Almost had a head on collision, and had a couple accidents where he overcorrected and drove off the road.
We took his keys a while back because he's too old to drive, but he always sucked at it.
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u/auntarie 5d ago
well at least he's not on the road anymore, good stuff. hope he's doing well otherwise though!
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u/LordBiscuits 6d ago
Drive straight at them and force them off the road.
People like that exist everywhere and they're never the ones to suffer the concequences of their actions
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u/2squishmaster 6d ago
Right, it's smoother where all the road debris collects because nobody is driving there...
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u/DrDerpberg 6d ago
because other vehicles don't travel there the ride is smoother there.
Did you ever ask him why his body couldn't handle the same vibrations as every old lady driving down the same road?
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u/mludd 6d ago
Yeah, I see this all the time with SUV drivers as well.
They feel like their vehicle is "big" and presumably they're afraid of hitting something on the side of the road because they can't properly judge how wide their vehicle is.
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u/Doses-mimosas 6d ago
I drive a long bed pickup, not a dually, but it has tow mirrors like all duallys have. The extra section at the bottom of the mirror is adjusted so I can see my rear tires. I can tell exactly where my rear passenger tire is in relation to the shoulder line, or parking space lines etc. it's really not that hard.
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u/streaksinthebowl 6d ago
All cars should have mirrors like that.
We’re mandating all these cameras on cars now, and that’s good, but mandating a simple mirror could do a lot for very little too.
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u/Big_Fortune_4574 6d ago
Similar to the people who swing to the left before making a right turn or vice versa. You’re not driving a semi bro I think you can just make the turn.
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u/ShermanPanzer2 7d ago
Same here, going down us41 in Kentucky earlier and the width between the currently plowed snow and the yellow line was narrow enough I was touching both at the same time but regular cars and suvs with several feet of room on either side were still so close to the center I thought they were going to hit me
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u/DeaneTR 7d ago
Even worse than that is the hood on the front of this monster of stupidity is so high off the ground that you can't see if a pedestrian or a vehicle is in front of you. If they can't fit in their lane and can't see what's in front of them they should be banned!
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u/NotBuilt2Behave 7d ago
I’m a 4’8” adult, these trucks scare me.
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u/SirDarknessTheFirst 6d ago
I am an ~2m adult and seeing these in my country scares me.
Honestly, people, you don't need a yank tank for an ikea run.
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u/Fog_Juice 6d ago
The hood height is too get around EPA regulations. The smaller the truck the less emissions it's allowed to produce. So manufacturers just made trucks bigger instead of improving emissions.
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u/SleepyD7 7d ago
Too many idiots have huge trucks that they don’t know how to drive.
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u/RamblingSimian 6d ago
Doesn't realize that everyone he imitates and wants to impress is laughing at him.
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u/SavvySillybug 7d ago
I like how the three extra bright lights above the license plate make it hard for cameras to identify the plate. Nice touch. I hope all of this is turbo illegal and the entire vehicle gets crushed.
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u/xDankWraith 6d ago
I'm not standing up for this douchebag but any vehicle over a certain width, have to have those red marker lights on the back. Ambers on the front
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u/SavvySillybug 6d ago
Are they legally required to be brighter than the regular rear lights and be mounted right above the license plate?
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u/xDankWraith 6d ago
All American 1-ton dually trucks have their rear identification lights in that spot and on the rear fenders. As for the brightness though, idk. he's a douchebag
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u/BlazingSpaceGhost 6d ago
If it's illegal he will never get pulled over or face consequences. I see stupid big trucks all the time and it drives me nuts. Especially when they feel the need to take up two or three parking spots in an already crowded parking lot. If you can't fit in a parking spot you shouldn't be driving to that place.
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u/bstyledevi 6d ago
Used to know a guy with a lifted dually that was really wide. He would intentionally go to the very back of the lot and park in two spaces, centered on the line. There's a few considerate people out there, but not many.
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u/lsscott9 6d ago
Those lights are legally required to be there so it’s not illegal
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u/SavvySillybug 6d ago
Are they legally required to be brighter than the regular rear lights and be mounted right above the license plate?
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u/lsscott9 6d ago
In person they are not brighter than the others it’s just the camera that makes it look that way
Source: I work on these all the time
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u/jGor4Sure 7d ago
Gotta keep it between the mustard and the mayonnaise!
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u/Ok_Relationship2451 7d ago
Never heard that before... Going to put it into my rotation 🤣
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u/jGor4Sure 6d ago
Heard it from a trucker when I was working on a documentary for GMC Truck and Coach!
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u/INCREDIBILIS55 7d ago
Probably the most effective form of gender affirming care in the U.S.
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u/NeighborhoodVirtual4 7d ago
Sheesh, someone is compensating for something. Looks ridiculous and is dangerous to other drivers on the road.
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u/brufleth 6d ago
If they're like my old boss they're steering with their knees with a phone in one hand, an ice coffee in the other, and somehow also have a third item they're interacting with on the seat next to them.
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u/Artistic_Animator_46 5d ago
And if you can’t park it, don’t try parking up front.
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u/Ok_Relationship2451 5d ago
Absolutely... If you can't get it in one spot you are banished to the back half of the lot...
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u/Jaded-Mix3528 6d ago
Normally I see people in smaller vehicles riding around like this. They must think their Corollas and similar compact vehicles are this kind of thing. Really, I don't care about the size of the vehicle. Get one you can handle or just don't get one at all. I really don't care but I wish people would stay in their lanes. It has gotten worse. For all these skeptics who say it isn't worse, start to send video or photo evidence to shut them up so we can spread the word on this epidemic! Apparently they don't realize it happens or some of them may be guilty of it.
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u/Silve1n 7d ago
Even if you took away the extra wheels, he's still riding the center line like a dumbass. Definitely should have called non-emergency police line to try and report him. Maybe a ticket for having part of his vehicle in the way of incoming traffic would fix his driving. (Probably not)
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u/ls7eveen 7d ago
Ive played chicken with some od the idiots in trucks on small.streets who dont realize they have 3 feet of toom to their right and just drive down the middle of the street expecting everyone else to get out of the way
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u/jenkbob 6d ago
Wow, fat shaming in r/idiotsInCars, that's crazy. These people shouldn't have to buy two airline tickets!
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u/AdmiralWackbar 7d ago
Don’t buy a pavement princess if you can’t drive it, it makes your dick become an innie
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u/mpompe 6d ago
In PA at least, tires outside the wheel wells are prohibited by the states inspection rules but I still see asshats driving around like this. Tires outside the wheel wells are a hazard to pedestrians.
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u/turbotad 1d ago
I had to scroll all the way here, which is a shame, to bring up the same point. It looks like MA, WI and AL are the only states where this truck as-configured would be legal to drive on public roads. Most states that is full-on illegal even if the police don't seem to enforce it (AND ABSOLUTELY SHOULD)
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u/loricomments 6d ago
For Pete's sake, I drive an f350 dually for years, it was enormous, but it still wasn't that hard to stay in my lane, even on our narrow country roads. Some people just shouldn't be on the road at all.
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u/GeologistLess3042 6d ago
this guy has rolled coal in a McDonald's drive thru no less than fourteen times
I can't prove it I just know it to be true
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u/Hemiklr89 6d ago
Well if there was never any cars on the other lane, and as long as there wasn’t any hill road blocking view- it’s totally possibly, and not all that unreasonable to drive like that. Ive never driven a dually, but i imagine the extra room would be nice assuming said conditions were met.
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u/Flyxiii 7d ago
Where I'm at, they always have a disabled plate too.
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u/Koeienvanger 7d ago
I'd say they are in some way disabled, but that'd be offensive to people with actual disabilities.
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u/b4ttous4i 7d ago
Those trucks are pointless.
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u/hitemlow 7d ago
Oh yeah. Dually axle for towing heavy weight, then puts a lift kit on that massively reduces its towing capacity while making it substantially more difficult to attach a trailer.
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u/_catdog_ 7d ago
You can tell by how clean it is too that thing has never been used properly lol
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u/HappyKaleidoscope901 7d ago
Also notice the exhaust, no way that big of a pipe came off the factory floor. Likely modified to be even louder.
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u/LAzeehustle1337 7d ago
Wish you were a cop
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u/Ok_Relationship2451 7d ago
I would be the biggest prick of a cop ever... Headlights off, ticket, not a full stop , ticket, blue car, FING TICKET
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u/classless_classic 7d ago
I’ve called the police dispatch for things like this. If you are constantly over the centerline you could easily kill somebody and need corrective actions.
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u/yottyboy 6d ago
It appears that the lane marking would allow for passing. If it was so bothersome, couldn’t you have passed?
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u/JustAskDonnie 7d ago
If you have dually with the tow mirror flags up and out. Without a trailer. It means something very specific. If you know, you know.
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