Some truck owners are purposefully blocking Tesla charging stations in protest - Sensationalist Headlines

How many actual recorded cases of this are there? I agree with almost everything said in this thread, but I feel like these things are relatively small events until they get publicity and traction through the media reporting it. Like I remember when "the knock out game" was the big scare on the news and I didn't even start seeing cases (which were still extremely low) until after every news agency and their dog had reported about it. We keep giving these morons time of the day when they should be ignored and the laws updated because the reason people do this is to get reactions because they live off that. Want to see a big truck driver get really pissed? Ignore them like they are nothing, like their truck is basically a speck of dust not worth your time, attention or emotion and they quickly become embarrassing for themselves.

I'll eat my dick if there's a legitimate reason anyone needs a rolling coal truck.

I would love an electric pickup but damn does that one look ugly.

Well perhaps not for ‘rolling coal’, but virtually all utes sold here in Australia have turbodiesel engines, for torque and fuel consumption reasons. 99% of them will have exhausts that are as clean as possible, but you will occasionally come across a filthy diesel - but that’s mostly because they aren’t being properly maintained rather than ‘yeah bro I’m rolling coal!’. Thank fuck that Australia doesn’t have American-style truck culture. The largest utes you’ll regularly see on the road here are Ford Rangers, Mitsubishi Tritons, the mighty Toyota Hilux etc. But apparently those are considered mid-size or even ‘small’ by American standards? Most ‘posers’ here go for Ford Falcon Utes and Holden Utes, where often the only obnoxious thing about them is aftermarket exhausts.

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nothing would bring as much joy as watching these giant gas guzzlers get hauled off while their owners watch.

These people get really fucking weird about their trucks. I had one living in the same apartment block as me once, every day he'd leave his house to turn his truck on and sit in it for like, 30 minutes and just rev it up over and over again. No actually driving it, not moving it or trying to make sure fluids are moved(you only really need to do that once a week if your vehicleisn't actively used), but he'd just sit there effectively jerking off over how awesome his truck is. These people are weird and it's probably a sex thing thinking about it, considering it's clear compensation.

Wow, that's one of the saddest things I've ever heard.

For some like my little brother, it's all about the noise. I am NOT joking.

I've been in the US for just two weeks, making a trip through Utah, Nevada and California and in that small timespan I've noticed just how bad the machoman behavior is. As many people have said, the lack of dirt, scratches and toolboxes or any lack of utility modifications give it away instantly. Some of these people even drive like they need to be number one, what I noticed especially while we were leaving Fresno and on our way to LA. This guy was riding the left lane for like 20 kilometers and I wanted to pass him when an additional left lane became available, he saw me pulling close to him and accelerated. Even though I was fucking fuming from this childish shit behavior I still gave up and just went to the right lane again, seeing how I'm a new driver to begin with, in an entirely different country with entirely different laws.

Not defending coal rollers or those types because dear God I hate 'em too, but reading a few of the posts in this thread are a tad bit upsetting... Legitimate question, does a truck have to have dirt, useful mods, or toolboxes in the beds to be really considered not owned by one of these jackasses? My family's pickup is extremely clean and doesn't have any dirt or scrapes, it lacks a conventional bed toolbox, and is basically stock with only features offered by the manufacturer installed, but we use it to tow shit all the time, like our not-very-light camper cross country or a boat, when we used to own one anyway, as well as carry stuff too large to stick in the back of any other type of vehicle. You know, stuff that anything less than a pickup couldn't really do very well, if at all. It's possible for a truck to be spotless and toolbox-less without it belonging to a tiny dicked meathead. It's just called proper care and maintenance. I know this post seems a little random but fuck, I'm sick of getting dirty looks whenever I have to drive the truck (we only own 2 vehicles for 4 people in the house so the smaller car isn't always available) because some people instantly equate "clean truck = owned by idiot who doesn't even need it and probably furiously masturbates over it" because of the kind of shit-assed fucknuggets that're in the article. Dumb people ruining completely okay things for other people makes my blood boil.

At first I thought this was truck drivers protesting automation, judging by the headline, which I could understand and get behind. But nope! Nope! it's Cletus O'Fucky and his Rootin' Tootin' Pals protesting that they can't smother innocent bystanders in their anal gas. Fuck 'em. Fuck the lot of 'em.

Most trucks are fine. It's the jacked-up ones with shitty mods that most people are complaining about in here. I bet those trucks in the OP can't even tow safely anymore.

I only think that way when I see people driving huge trucks like the F-350 or do some kind of obnixious mod. Otherwise its pretty normal since the ride height and off road capability really matter when you have to be at work everyday with zero exceptions to weather. I drive a police sedan interceptor with the F150 engine but sometimes the ride height isn't even good enough for the weather here.

I hoped as such. Just the loose descriptions had me worried. I don't like feeling bad because other people have tarnished something I or my family has or does perfectly reasonably. One might say "why should you let what others do affect you?" Well, I try not to but that's just not always how it works out. It's easy to ignore what others do, but it's not so easy to ignore the sort of stigma it automatically applies to you by proxy. I can't ignore people being cunts to me because I drive a pickup truck that seems suspiciously clean, despite the workload it actually carries. I drive decently, I don't park like a jackass and often go out of my way to park far away from the front, away from everyone else because I know my vehicle is large, what the fuck else do people want from me?? More on topic, the only other vehicle we own is a little 2007 Ford Focus. I've actually had the pleasure of one of these coal rolling freaks doing their business on me, more than once. I almost had a wreck from it once. It's a wonder how any of these people are smart enough to remember to breathe. Then again, their brain stem probably has a higher IQ than the rest of their heads.

Here people buy them because "muh family and muh utility" because they need the biggest land barge possible to transport Ayden and Hope to their soccer games and for their trip to IKEA they do every other year because "better to have it than not have it!" I used to have the compact Ranger and all I would want is the new one, or a 4runner, or just go buy my old one back so I can Windsor V8 swap it.

Interesting how just the existence of electric vehicles is triggering a fight or flight response from these people. There's no reason to be scared! It's just electricity!

I've never been a supporter of private parking fine collection in the UK. However, I wonder if Tesla could get some enforcement going serving notice against these people. I guess the issue is with the many different states and their laws.

I think the point is that you actually use it and don't have a truck for the sake of it.

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Haha that’s bloody hilarious, especially when you remember that some Teslas might have more torque than those trucks. Just imagine how insecure one of those rednecks might feel, after having parked in the electric car recharge zone, only to come back and find their truck pushed back, and a Tesla in its place.

Most ROLLL COALLLL truck owners live in trailers because 90% of their monthly income is spent on their hourly full tank of gas

I was wondering if the Teslas could do this with all that torque they put down.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/976774671516364800?s=19 https://youtu.be/30TSXDMMsc0 Truth is, pulling shit with wheels isn't all that difficult. It's far more impressive if the thing you're pulling is in park and you have to drag it. Or if it's fighting back like in a tug-of-war. But there's probably a misconception that EVs can't do it for reasons (remember, EVs are slow and for pussies) especially among these coalrollers. Would be hilarious seeing them react to a Tesla nonchalantly pulling them down the parking lot.

FYI, for everyone foaming at the mouth getting all bent out of shape about coal rolling morons. Of the three trucks in the OP picture, only one of them might be diesel powered, but I don't know or care enough about that vintage of Ford F series to know from a small picture. There have never been any factory diesel powered GMT800s or Avalanches, and I'm sure these guys don't have the collective brainpower to do that sort of conversion.

You're probably right, but it doesn't change the fact that the trucks are intentionally modded to be gas guzzlers and i'm willing to bet none of them get over 15 miles to the gallon

I'm late on this, but superchargers are almost always in private lots. It's not illegal in most states to block spaces. It's up to the lot owner to deal with it. The cops won't get involved. A lot of stores have spaces 'reserved' for green vehicles. Thing is, without proper signage, those are practically meaningless. They can tell you to leave, but they can't ticket you, and if they tow you, you can sue them. About the only thing cops can get involved in on a private lot is handicap spaces.

Yeah I don't have a particular law in mind but if I was depending on this place to get where I needed to be and there were a bunch of guys chanting I just wouldn't have any patience for it. I don't suppose there could be something about them interfering with the owner's ability to operate their business? You'd probably have to get the owner involved in that case as well, but it might be worth it to see them get ultimately get chewed out by the cops.

Tesla's contracts for the superchargers probably stipulate something about towing vehicles, which can be done with very little notice in most states. No matter what though, it's the lot owners responsibility to deal with.

Imagine having a dick as small as these idiots in these trucks have. How on earth do they breed?