[ElijahLynn]

I recently visited Portugal and it was so refreshing not to see huge near monster trucks on the road. Which have a very intimidating vibe to them.

I was like oh look at people can actually function without big trucks, wow! What a surprise!

[9cb14c1ec0]

Very urban perspective. If you are a contractor or farmer in rural America, there is no way to survive without a good sized truck.

[tumdum_]

Did you know that only 1,6% of US population works in agriculture compared to 5% in Portugal? See https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/employmen...

[LearnYouALisp]

Uh huh, and how far away is everything? What kind of work?

[trinix912]

There’s plenty of rural Europe too, but Europeans mostly use vans (tradesmen) or tractors (farmers) instead. Both have much better visibility than those tall trucks with a long hood, at least from my experience.

[ElijahLynn]

Well from my experience visiting Portugal, there's tons of farming there and they didn't have all these oversized trucks. I wonder how they do it...

It seems uniquely American to have these huge trucks and most of the people here don't even farm. They just use them to flex.

[ErroneousBosh]

So why do they they have these useless American pickups like Ford F150s?

You can't put anything in them. They've got a load bed that I could *just* about fit a couple of sandwiches in.

Everyone here in the UK uses Ford Transits. How do you use something like an F150 to move plasterboard sheets?

[Marsymars]

I dunno, my dad was a farmer when I was a kid, and he did fine with a series of compact pickups. (Some 80's Toyota thing, then a Nissan hardbody, then a Chevy S10.)

[tinyplanets]

Plenty of oversized trucks and SUVs in urban areas. The majority of the population in the U.S. is considered urban, so why exactly is the "urban perspective" not legitimate?