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TheSpaceBetweenUs__ t1_j1vwsrm wrote

Reply to comment by Playful_Question538 in Track selected: Ice world by Miser

Weird, you have to get a drivers license to drive and a CDL to drive heavy vehicles, kinda proving it is everyone's business what heavy machinery you operate around squishy vulnerable humans.

If drivers didn't kill 40,000 people a year, maybe you'd have a point

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Playful_Question538 t1_j1xvtkk wrote

You have to get a drivers license to drive any vehicle. You only need a CDL If you're over 26,000 lbs. You can drive a 3/4 ton diesel truck with a gooseneck trailer loaded down and don't need a CDL unless you're over 26,000 lbs.

That's probably what should be changed. When a person with a license to drive a smart car can tow tractors in diesel pickup trucks with no training or special license I agree with you that could become a dangerous situation.

I just don't think a guy that buys a pickup truck to haul a couple trees and some mulch for his yard should be judged or licensed separately from other drivers. It's really his business what he buys and it doesn't matter how often he uses it.

I did come off harsh and you didn't so I apologize for that. You seem like a nice person.

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TheSpaceBetweenUs__ t1_j1ywhy8 wrote

I mean if I see a older pickup that's obviously used for that purpose I don't judge. They used to be roughly the same size as a sedan (and often had bigger beds anyway) and thus weren't any more dangerous. I don't think that's a problem.

However over the years these new pickups keep getting bigger heavier and more dangerous. Their visibility is getting increasingly poor for seeing anything around it, and I think the regulations should be updated to fix that.

Also the ridiculous modifications some people are putting on their pickups to make them even bigger and heavier should be outright banned or at least have some kind of regulatory process. These drivers are turning their vehicles into monster trucks without anything stopping them. They can now run over any regular sized car instead of crashing

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Playful_Question538 t1_j22xsyd wrote

New York is one of the most lax states on vehicles modifications. As long as it's short enough to fit through the Lincoln tunnel it's legal and as long as the bumper is no higher than 30" from the ground it's legal. There aren't really other laws as far as building a really ridiculous truck that annoys every single person in the neighborhood.

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