There shouldn't be the babydick pickups like avalanches, but the super modest ones would also be impractical for the demographics I'm talking about. If I'm an hour or two outside of a city and have to stick to the daily routine, I want to make as few supply runs as possible. If I'm transporting livestock the trailers to do so humanely are pretty bulky and I'm not sure a small truck would manage that much better than my car could. The alternative to a bulkier pickup truck in that instance would be a cargo truck and that's worse by any metric we'd gauge pickups by.
I guess my problem with them really comes from having specialty use-cases like off-roading and hauling heavy loads rolled into a general-use high-speed long distance vehicle. And it's aggravated by not having the infrastructure to disentangle these functions into more specialised, more efficient vehicles... Like tractors, vans and trucks in Europe
In any case, I really don't care much what cars ppl are buying, it's not policing individual consumption choices, but building a better world that must be the goal.
Highways seem to necessitate that for me. The nearest interstate is 75mph, the rural roads connecting to it range from 50-65mph. That's the only way you're efficiently getting to a farmer's market or a livestock auction or a distributor. We'd be selling more vehicles with the ecological toll of producing/shipping them or removing less control over production from small farmers. People with the operational scale to ship semis full of product won't be impacted but the van won't arrive safely and the tractor won't arrive efficiently and owning an XYZ combination of vehicles costs more than an X or XY combination. Someone has to eat the costs of the truck ban and it would need to be matched by the populations calling for it funding roads in the regions impacted by it. When the starting position of that camp is significantly disrupting businesses they don't understand and look down on, I don't see them following up the truck ban with a socially positive solution to the problems it creates. It's city liberals pushing a $25k van switchover tax on people radicalised against city liberals.
I mean, there's pickups (which have some legitimate uses imo) and P I C K U P S.
There shouldn't be the babydick pickups like avalanches, but the super modest ones would also be impractical for the demographics I'm talking about. If I'm an hour or two outside of a city and have to stick to the daily routine, I want to make as few supply runs as possible. If I'm transporting livestock the trailers to do so humanely are pretty bulky and I'm not sure a small truck would manage that much better than my car could. The alternative to a bulkier pickup truck in that instance would be a cargo truck and that's worse by any metric we'd gauge pickups by.
I guess my problem with them really comes from having specialty use-cases like off-roading and hauling heavy loads rolled into a general-use high-speed long distance vehicle. And it's aggravated by not having the infrastructure to disentangle these functions into more specialised, more efficient vehicles... Like tractors, vans and trucks in Europe
In any case, I really don't care much what cars ppl are buying, it's not policing individual consumption choices, but building a better world that must be the goal.
Highways seem to necessitate that for me. The nearest interstate is 75mph, the rural roads connecting to it range from 50-65mph. That's the only way you're efficiently getting to a farmer's market or a livestock auction or a distributor. We'd be selling more vehicles with the ecological toll of producing/shipping them or removing less control over production from small farmers. People with the operational scale to ship semis full of product won't be impacted but the van won't arrive safely and the tractor won't arrive efficiently and owning an XYZ combination of vehicles costs more than an X or XY combination. Someone has to eat the costs of the truck ban and it would need to be matched by the populations calling for it funding roads in the regions impacted by it. When the starting position of that camp is significantly disrupting businesses they don't understand and look down on, I don't see them following up the truck ban with a socially positive solution to the problems it creates. It's city liberals pushing a $25k van switchover tax on people radicalised against city liberals.
They all have legitimate uses, it's just that the proportion of trucks on the road that are being rightly used has been steadily decreasing.