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[–] Jode@midwest.social 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, what a "full size truck" in America is going to be in 5 years.

The amazing part is that both vehicles in this picture get the same gas mileage!

/s

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where is the racing series for them?

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There would be no overtakes. The thing blocks the whole track :) https://youtu.be/5oWiRKnAThU

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

So? Just get a bigger dirt track, like the width of a demo derby pit but a quarter mile track...

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They should re-release Ivan Stewart’s Super Off-road & make this an unlockable upgrade.

You just drive around flattening all the jumps & crushing the other drivers.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Eh Bagger 288 would win in a fight.

[–] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

saw one of these rolling coal at a Chic-fil-A

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Don’t you start planting seeds for a Chik-fil-a food truck now…

[–] sizzler@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are the types of tyres, that when they blow have inch thick steel cable in the side walls that could decapitate three men in a go. Ask me how I know...

[–] Someguy89@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] sizzler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't find them til they didn't report in for lunch...

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I'm so sorry

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

They we're decapitated, obviously.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what the overhang is for.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When hauling for a quarry, it's to keep the cab & driver from being smushed when the bucket gets filled with a big pile of boulders.

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

AKA my zombie apocalypse truck. You could stick a fair sized RV in the bucket and live there.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Holy fuck thats giant! What are these things used for?

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Hauling at mines.

There are pictures of large pickup trucks (think Ford F250/F350) flattened like a pancake ~~fire~~ from trying to pass one of these without alerting the driver they're there. When you're on a mine, these things always have the right of way.

Reminds me of the signs they used to have in Seminole County by railroads (could have been elsewhere as well)

"Big train, little car, are you passed the stop bar?"

[–] Thebazilly@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, a new picture every MSHA refresher. No visibility on a haul truck when you have to climb a staircase to get into the cab.

[–] robotrash@lemmy.robotra.sh 4 points 1 year ago

I could be mistaken but I believe they move materials in rock quarries, at least that's what I saw on an episode of some discovery show many years ago. I still think about them regularly too since it's like 3 stories tall and has a stair case to get to the driver seat lol

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Moving lots of dirt/rock cheaply. Mostly in mining.

[–] Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

How many miles per cat