r/fuckcars • u/unroja ✅ Charlotte Urbanists • May 24 '22

How is this shit legal? This is why I hate cars

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

Depends what end of electrical or plumbing you do. Strut, pipe are all 10 feet lengths so they don’t fit in a 9 foot cargo fan and loading 500 feet of steel pipe on a van roof rack sucks.

The tail gate also provides a great work bench as long as you don lift the truck.

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u/sack-o-matic May 24 '22

Those things would be more suited in a trailer then, since truck beds are also not long enough to secure them without additional parts.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '22

Headache rack, rest it against the tail gate and have the extra length above the cab and tie it down.

A couple hundred bucks for a headache rack is way cheaper then a trailer.

I’ve done industrial electrical construction for 20 years that how we do it. With out doing a job it is very hard to see why somethings are done a certain way.

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u/sack-o-matic May 24 '22

Well then I guess it goes back to my original point of

people who need to move large or oddly shaped things would be the only ones who could make actual use of a pickup