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i mean, most parking lots have back to back spaces, so it sounds to me like they've pulled in the first one, all the way through to the next one. I see no problem here, large trucks like this have to stop somewhere.
Beats parking in the lot sideways LMAO.
Let it stick out into "traffic," since it's just a parking lot. Better to have to drive around it than to take up an extra spot.
I have to park my work van like this a lot but I always park it at the back of the lot when I do, but would you rather have me blocking traffic to the parking lot if i tried to park in a spot normally? No, you wouldnt, and I probably get asked not to do that again by the store.
If this person works in a trade that requires heavy hauling of equipment and matrials, fine. They need this truck.
If this person is using it to make up for personal inadequacies then fuck them for buying a monstrosity that pollutes like hell and wasted gasoline.
the only road vehicles longer than 20 feet that i know of off the top of my head are busses, and box trucks, and im guessing this is a box truck.
Neither of those are cool enough for someone with a small dick to drive as a daily lmao.
To be fair, going to IKEA is a defensible application for a vehicle like this. Some of those flat packs are pretty bulky.
I believe Ikea have their own vehicles.
You're going to purchase a 22ft truck just for Ikea trips? How often are you going to Ikea for large furniture?
Perhaps there are people who don't keep a fleet of differently-sized trucks so as not to overshoot.
It's easy to figure this out. Just look in the bed of the truck.
If the truck bed is clean and empty, you've got yourself a Pavement Princess.
if you look at the bed and it's empty, but dented and worn, you high the owner of that truck if you see them for using it properly.
If it has shit in the bed and it's pristine and mint, you scowl at them for owning a new truck.
There are smaller trucks that many tradesmen have been using without much issue
There's also much longer vehicles that suit different purposes that people use without issue. We have no idea what their day-to-day work is and this might be the best possible option for them.
The small dick kill the environment type trucks usually don't focus on long truck beds.
And those longer vehicles aren't really made to run errands or fit in regular parking lots.
They aren’t, but not everyone can afford two vehicles. I can imagine a person getting an extended cab truck for both errands/family and work. And if this is the case, what are they supposed to do?
Vehicles are expensive.
Are those tradesmen hauling heavy equipment like the above commenter mentioned? A small van works great for a plumber, not so much for an excavation company. Although i doubt this guy is about to dig up the ikea parking lot.