My take is we have too many cars, we need better public transportation. I read where the UK is pushing this also.
Another rural county speaking!! When will public transportation start taking round bales or cattle?
Since this thread went WAY downhill sometime back, why not just limit pickups & larger vehicles, 4 wheel drive, etc to rural area residents only? Don't allow them big city folk to buy them (they don't know how to drive anyway) besides, they can take public transportation to get plywood, etc.
True story! Two or so weeks ago my in-laws moved closer to us. The moving van company they used was from CA. It was misting a little bit and the driver (also from CA) didn't want to bring his 53 footer down the (paved) road, it is narrow, winding and mostly unmarked/unlined. He said he was afraid he would fall off into the ditch because it didn't have shoulders. One of his helpers came by their house and told us they were going to have to get some transfer trucks (u-haul type). About that same time, a chicken truck (about 50') and a 53' chicken feed truck passed the house. Both the helper & I just shrugged our shoulders. The helper finally convinced the truck driver he could make it - but he brought a transfer truck anyway- just in case..
Right across from the folks driveway is another road so it would be very easy for him to back in. That road however, was a county maintained gravel road. The driver, who proclaimed when he got there he had been driving with that company for 25 years, absolutely refused to get his tires on the gravel road for fear he would get stuck. So he all but blocked the road so they could unload.
More stories like this 'round here of big city truckers deciding to start driving chicken trucks or feed trucks that have a hard time not getting stuck when they have to show up @ 0200-0300 to drop off feed or pick up chickens.
I guess once a big city driver, always a big city cruiser..