• Retail4068
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    5 days ago

    I’m still convinced axios made up the “truck owners don’t use their shit right” back in 2018 and it caused 75% of the internet hate for trucks. To this day after asking repeatedly I still have not found a single lock of evidence outside one of their hit pieces.

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      4 days ago

      Most people never use the hauling capabilities and use their trucks as a worse car

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        4 days ago

        Cite one source. I bet when you Google whatever random website to support your already made view it leads back to nowhere or axios.

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          4 days ago

          I see very little hauling, TONS of trucks in the city, and trucks parked at people’s office job. It’s kind of painfully obvious.

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            3 days ago

            I thought today was the day somebody might have an ounce of data instead of regurgitating retarded observations with biases and not a metric in sight. Not today I guess.

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                2 days ago

                Bingo

                In a study conducted by Axios

                Unpublished leading with the same mutually non exclusive question, no methodology, and no published stats.

                Bravo for bringing this full circle exactly back to where I stated it would lead us. I honestly couldn’t have done it better. But you really played your part. You went and googled what you wanted to find and linked a secondary source without reading a damn thing or caring what you linked to. 👏👏👏👏👏 bravo.

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                  2 days ago

                  So what do people actually like about trucks? According to Edwards, the answer is counterintuitive. Truck drivers use their trucks very much like other car owners: for commuting to and from work, presumably alone.

                  Alexander Edwards president of automotive research and consulting firm Strategic Vision, which conducts an in-depth, annual, 250,000-person, psychographic new vehicle owners’ survey. “

                  https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-truck-you-need-a-cowboy-costume

                  The study itself is sadly proprietary but it is in line with what you can see all around you on your commute and in your works parking lot. Commuters commuting in their truck.

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                    2 days ago

                    Naw, I can look out my window and seeing trucks well used all day. Thank you again for proving my point so well. Accidentally linking back to the report I initially bitched at then hand waving it away with personal stories is 👨‍🍳😚