Honestly this is absurd. These death machines shouldn’t be legal in europe. That thing doesn’t even fit in the parking space, even though the parking lot has the biggest spaces in the whole city. The Golf Polo is so small in comparison, it could even hide in front of the engine hood of the truck.

EDIT: It’s a Polo and not a Golf, I don’t know my cars, sorry for that!

  • @barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
    2•11 months ago

    That’s a ram 2500 btw, it will haul 10,000-15,000 lbs depending on how it’s configured.

    That’s quite a bit more than a Golf’s 2t, the maximum you can get over here without it being a truck (and requiring a truck license) is 3.5t. 5t is medium lorry category… not pulling, that is, but hauling stuff themselves. If you order a load of bricks or such you generally don’t pick them up, they get delivered by whoever’s selling them with a lorry with a suitable crane.

    And no a Unimog is not a street legal tractor, pretty much all tractors are street legal (as long as it’s harvesting season farmers get all kinds of road legality exemptions as long as they drive at snail speeds great-grandpa’s trailer that he pulled with horses is still legal). It’s an Autobahn-legal tractor and appliance carrier. Also drives on rail if equipped for it. And it’s Autobahn-legal by a wide margin, the minimum is 60km/h and they usually do 80 (in line with what lorries are allowed, everything over 3.5t total weight), you can get them with up to 110km/h.

    • CornpopEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      I know exactly what a unimog is, I have drove one. And you are just talking semantics about the legality, here they are considered street legal, as they get a plate assigned. You can drive a tractor on the road but only for the purpose of transport to other fields on Maintence. They do not require a a tag, only a triangle. A basic license here covers all pickup trucks for private use, you only need a CDL for a really big trailer when you are working for hire, or a commercial truck over a certain size. It is kinda crazy to me how people can have 42 foot RVs here pulling a 40 foot double stacked enclosed trailer though with just a basic license though haha