You can get this functionality by driving a hatchback and putting the passenger seat down. Those cars fit way more than you would think.
In a collision, you are much safer if you are facing backwards because your spine aligns with the back of the seat instead of you rag-dolling forwards. So turn those seats around, too. The design is very human.
I used to work at a furniture factory and we got all our steel delivered in a truck with this configuration. 8m and 10m lengths on the shortest possible wheelbase. No backseat though.
Then you could add forklift forks and you have a sideloader!
Have these guys never been to an airport? There are trucks like this all over the tarmac.
A port made entirely of air? Who do you think I am, some kind of idiot?!
No, it’s Japanese so the port side is on the right.
Wait, are port and starboard reversed in Japan?
No, but it seemed like it would make a good joke at the time.
Fun fact! The literal translation of airport in Japanese is ‘sky harbour’
I think you are thinking of belt loaders, which have a long flat bed on them.
Except, BAM - it’s not a flat bed, it’s a moving conveyor belt that is raised to carry the bags and cargo from those carts into the plane.
Unless you’re thinking of something else. But I think you’re thinking of something like this:
Clearly designed by someone who hasn’t used a pickup truck to it’s real potential.
I wanted to get one of those tiny grandpa trucks when they were going for like $4k new, but apparently they’re illegal everywhere in the US. We’re stuck with $60k “entry level” monster trucks.
They’re illegal in some places, but I think they’re mostly fine. The deal is you can’t import a foreign made car unless it’s more than 25 years old, so the poor American car companies don’t have to compete.
The real scam is the importers get 'em in Japan for a couple hundred bucks at auction, haul 'em over here and sell 'em for 8k plus. They’re pretty rad, but parts can be kind of a bitch.
I thought the roof was attached to the truck and it was like a mobile hangout
Chicken coop.
Yeah, this isn’t rocket surgery
Also, yay for an actual work truck, and not one of the weird oversize impractical monstrosities that so many people seem to swoon over these days
I’ve got some big ass American iron too, but it’s old and actually worth a shit. Never understood lifts you need and ladder for, and 3’ beds. Totally worthless vanity boosters.
Trucks are for doing shit, not hauling your sorry ass to the grocery store.
Exactly. Take a 1989s LWB F250 with crewcab for example - full length bed, carries a work crew, can do a reasonable amount off road, and can be absolutely beaten on for years.
That, I can respect.
That is so wild!!!
ceci n’est pas une truck
Similar to a Long Tom/Island Cab truck.
One issue for a vehicle allowed in traffic is that ypu typically can’t have things sticking too far out of the vehicle in any direction lest someone drives into them. Thus long haulage is put on long beds, even when not very heavy.
Advantages of long beds is also that you can better secure your load along the length, can use standardised vehicles and parts, as well as have an easier time with load balancing and view management.
Aksually If you hang a red flag off of it. It becomes legal.
Cybertruck designer here: Just had a huge whipper (subscription based), some dishwasher style metal pannels, and we can sell these babies for 200k.
soo … a tiny yarddog?
As someone else already mentioned, these do exist but you don’t see them on the road because it usually easier to just get a bigger truck without all the quirks.
If this appeals to you then check out the Telo truck
It could probably hold 3-4 pallets, if it wasn’t a drawing
