The communist Justin Trudeau wants to tax carbon 😡

But I need this vehicle to buy groceries 😡😡

AX THE TAX 😡😡😡

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    Man is this A.I.? All sorts of fucked up little details if you zoom in. Trucks like this exist out there, why fake it?

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    i just like how silly and absurd this truck looks

    its like a satirical cartoon truck meant to poke fun of enormous trucks, except its real and unironic.

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    Too much truck, not enough dick, as they say.

    Slide under the midpoint with a battery powered angle grinder or a sawzall and cut 3/4 of the way through one side of the frame. Then you just let physics do the rest when they hit a good hard bump.

    Xanthan gum and muriatic acid will make a nice corrosive paste that might do the trick if you’re into edging with your sabotage.

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      Sawing that thing without being caught is hard. So, about that xanthan and muriatic paste, what kind of gloves should I use for protection?

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        Nitrile gloves, thicker the better. It will break them down but it will take a while. The fumes are chlorine gas, but aren’t that bad if you’re outside. What you really have to watch out for is getting it in your eyes, wear goggles.

        Baking soda will neutralize it, so you might want a gallon of water and some baking soda on hand. It will burn your skin if you leave it on you, but it takes a minute and you have time to just wash it off.

        Paint brush would be a good way to apply it.

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      It is. Stuff like this is usually built on a “cube van” factory extended cab n chassis frame, where the normal pickup box would fit on, bolt up like factory, but leave a 2 or three foot gap between a normal cab and the front of the box.

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          It seems to be too long. I doubt it would be road legal here. And if it was, by some absurd event, it would probably fall under C category, which is for heavy load vehicles. It would not be something someone would park in a supermarket parking lot.

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            AfaIk, to put a vehicle into category car (class B) or truck (class C/C1), its length doesn’t matter. The only important factor is the maximum permitted total mass, which is 3.5 t for a ‘car’ or 7.5 t for a light truck (C1) or ‘unlimited’ for a regular truck ©.
            Essentially, this the limiting factor here to be considered as class B ‘car’: As the empty mass of that vehicle is probably quite large, it’s subsequently not permitted to be loaded with noteworthy amount of freight, to remain below 3.5 t, perhaps not even the 5 people that would fit inside.
            Thus, if it’s not completely hoax, it only is allowed to be driven by those that have a C1 licence, which is either professionals or, e.g. in Germany, older people who’ve had that included in their ‘class 2’ licence.

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              In Canada, this thing would have a max gvw roughly around 5500kg and it would weigh about 3, 3500 empty, depending, so max capacity around 2000 kg. That’s just a normal license here, the other categories really don’t start until 10,000 gvw. Non north americans tend to find that odd, but it’s not like we aren’t taught how to drive these things same as you guys, categories just differ.

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              I have a vague idea there is a limit to the dimensions of a vehicle before it is classified into another category but I will not insist on it.

              You didn’t notice that monstrosity has three rows of doors? It’s probably a 2+3+3 or 2+2+2. So, at least, six passengers.

              But I agree. It would most probably fall under C category here, making it a commercial vehicle.

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                I have a vague idea there is a limit to the dimensions of a vehicle before it is classified into another category but I will not insist on it.

                Yes, according to German law (it’s probably similar in the rest of EU), the limit is 12 m for cars and 18 m for trucks. Yet, afaIk, it doesn’t affect the type of driver’s licence necessary for driving such a vehicle.

                You didn’t notice that monstrosity has three rows of doors? It’s probably a 2+3+3 or 2+2+2. So, at least, six passengers.

                Yes, but the driver legally doesn’t count as passenger and (a part of him) enters the mass of the ‘empty’ vehicle with 70 kg. So it’s either 5 or 7 passengers.

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                  See we don’t even really have a max length, the usual rule is 23 or 27 meters (depends on province but most interprovincial guys obviously follow the smaller limit) but if you want to be longer, then it’s yearly or monthly permits. Regina to Saskatoon on highway 11, 39 meter combos are common.