make them require LR – Light Rigid licence. if you really "need it for work", no worries, just do the course.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2026
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Charge rego by the kilo, or by road surface area. It's crazy that they cost the same to put on the road as a 900kg hatch.
Bonus points if you make the fee scale by weight to the fourth power, to match the relative impact it has on road wear
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Rego in NSW does scale by weight. Other states should bring that in if they don't already. However, that hasn't stopped yank tanks from flooding NSW roads. They should also require an LR licence since they are literally the size of a truck.
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It should be exponential too. That's how road wear works, so make them pay in accordance to the damage it does to the roads.
I was going to say just put a stupid-tax on them, but I guess Trump has kinda done that with the price of diesel.
And remove the tax concessions for using them as 'work' vehicles.
I'll be honest, remove it for any fucking ute that doesnt literally have a motorised compressor, pump or similar bolted to the tray.
98% of tradies can do their shit out of a van, they just want a swanky ute they can be an utter cunt on the road with. And they can go get fucked.
90% of them can do it out of a hatchback. They just need a gender affirming vehicle.
And of course, LR will require a BAC of 0.00.
That will discourage certain people from buying them if they don’t need it.
damn... that's perfect :D
almost want to create a website to start a campaign.
Do it. I'll sign up.
these cars aren't safe and should be made illegal, like other unsafe profucts from the USA.
Remember, even twenty years ago, cars were a lot narrower, people could park on both sides of a street and two cars could pass going opposite directions. Then some prick in the US decided 'trucks' didn't need to follow environmental protection laws, a dick waving marketing campaign ensued, and here we are, stopping to let people pass on roads that were designed not to need that.
Just make rego higher on wide vehicles. Fortunately the switch to EVs gives us a once in a generation chance to change things back from US stupidity.
TLDR: Tax Vehicle Girth.
Fucking shocked fucking pikachu fucking face
Anything over 4.5 tons needs a truck license and is speed limited to 100km. A RAM is 4.48 tons.
Yeah. They need to lower, and set a lower physical length limit. At my local IGA the other day, there were a total of 4 large utes using 11 spots. The drivers are the laziest drivers on the planet.
They drive them like shit, they park like shit, and then use the size of their car as an excuse to drive like an unsupervised 12 year old who has never driven a car before.
Even worse, you never see them actually towing anything, and there is only a single dirty Dodge RAM out there (we actually did see one once, and the whole car pointed it out). You'll never see courier drivers with them, and the people you do see with them, are always the exact people you expect
I have a Hilux which I think is big . Used for farm work and towing while the EV is my preferred vehicle these days as it is much more cost effective. The Hilux is actually tiny compared with a RAM or Silverado. I’m quite conscious that visibility in a parking lot is bad around a Ute or SUV but as you say many are totally oblivious or just don’t care about their usage.
Parking inspectors could be a big help here.
Drop the threshold to 4
The Importer de-rated their carrying capacity to keep them under the limit for what can be driven on a car licence.
is speed limited to 100km.
and also would require the driver to not exceed 0.00 BAC.
I wonder how the instant asset write off dropping to $20,000 (down from $150,000 in previous years!?!) has affected the sales of these vehicles.
That's not even close to being true - a RAM 1500 is 2620kg. Still really heavy, but not close to the cut off
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No shit and waters wet...
These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway be a nightmare otherwise. Its a rolling battering ram...
These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway
No, they really don't
I was being facetious, I thought that was obvious.
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These insane sized grills/front ends look great in the driveway
News to me, I think they look like giant look at me signs that say I have a tiny pecker and/or extreme insecurity in my person. They're a red flag, and anybody who has one i try to avoid.
These vehicles are primarily personal use in Canada. And I couldn’t care less about personal vehicle choice. However…. In my observations here I often see. 1. A single driver. 2. That they far too often follow stupidly close behind me. It feels like some weird dominance/intimidation game by them. And I don’t have the time or interest to play along. This is real here, others have mentioned similar observations to me.
Same here in Australia, at least with the ford rangers, and toyota hilux's. They became the most popular cars in Australia, even though the majority of Australians live in cities. The drivers love to tailgate. No doubt they are slowly being replaced with these even stupider, and larger utes. Chances are most of them will also be road coloured too.
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I want a smaller 4wd with lots of clearance (as a backup). What I want is a Jimny, but BEV with lots of range.
The only car I can find with my requirements at the moment is the Trailseeker or Solterra.
I drive a jeep at the moment. But, I don't want a large car.
Tired of Dodge RAM drivers and other large utes using their big size as an excuse for bad parking, and driving like shit. Instead, they should be driven at a better standard. At my local IGA, the other day, there were literally 4 cars using at least 11 spots..
At the very least, they should be double demerit
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I fucking hate the public safety amnesia around this, we knew this would happen, that is why cars weren't designed like that before.
We can file this one under no shit sherlock
I just want a small vehicle what can tow shit, is that too much to ask
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After a deeper investigation it was found that there are no standards at all anymore. /s
I wonder if these utes are less safe for the occupants as well. They are taller and heavier than most cars making them less safe in corners and needing a bigger braking distance to stop
I live in truck country. But no worries, there are effectively no pedestrians. Everyone knows they would die if they walked in the road. It's mostly the commercial size trucks killing people though, they're everywhere around me and they're much bigger and heavier than our pickups, and they can't stop quickly.
Of course, that’s what they are made to do.
There is a point system in the usa, the more you hit the higher your score.
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