Hey, German here. What the f*** are Americans doing at the other side of the Atlantic? Some of you already know this monstrosity. I did’nt. This is a Ford F650 Truck and when I stepped out of my Youtube Bubble I realized, it was marketed as the “biggest, baddest Truck on the road” for the everyday American. Are you guys serious?! Is the end goal really to drive a Monster Truck to McDs to get a McFlurry? Americas bloodiest wars have been fought in the middle east to secure oil, bombing nations to rubble. And all, for this bullshit? The excess, waste and decadence is mind boggling to me and people on Reddit seriously justifying this by “you know dude I’m 6,4ft. I don’t fit in any other vehicle” makes me go up the wall.
The F650 is pretty much the last thing you buy before you need a proper semi/tractor truck. I have seen a few, and known someone with one; and they routinely use it for cash hauls to make a living. Paying LTL (less than truck load) rates are very expensive and slow compared to hiring a contractor to haul something you need in a timely manner. The guy I knew that owned one used it to make a living hauling farm and construction equipment long distances.
Most F650’s that are produced will not have a bed, because they either get fitted with a flatbed or a cargo box.
how is this an appropriate vehicle for transporting goods?
The empty mass is huge and the loadbed is small. So the fuel efficiency and therefore cost efficiency is poor as well.
You use it to pull a large 5th-wheel trailer. You don’t haul with the bed, if you even have a bed installed.
I’ve seen a couple that were mobile paper shredders/recyclers (for larger businesses)
I’d believe it. Larger trucks usually come with a PTO as an option for things like that.
That’s fair. The problem is when they get marketed as an even bigger peen-supplement to the people that already run an F350 for what’s pretty much just grocery or fast-food runs (maybe a bit of muddin’ because that makes sense with $80k+ worth of truck)
Just doing a quick search shows it’s marketed as a commercial truck. Second image on the Ford website shows it with a dumper bed. Further down, it’s an electrical utility truck with a cherry picker. Those are pretty reasonable applications, since it can come with a PTO.
https://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/f650-f750/