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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.
Fun fact! The literal translation of airport in Japanese is ‘sky harbour’
It’s the same in English…
Wait, are port and starboard reversed in Japan?
No, but it seemed like it would make a good joke at the time.
Sometimes you come up with a genius idea only to realize you’ve reinvented the train.
I thought I invented the word “tragicomedy”
The Germans invented it first, with ‘tragikkomeßdykompenbursteißn’ *
*disclaimer: not 100% sure
I love the joke, but there is actually a German word for this: Tragikomödie.
It is a compound noun formed by combining Tragödie (tragedy) and Komödie (comedy).
This term was notably used in German Romanticism and later in 20th-century drama (for example like Brecht or Dürrenmatt) to describe works that refuse to fit neatly into a single emotional category.
It’s apparently attested since at least the 2nd century BCE; Roman playwright Plautus is usually credited with coining the term.
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:
Or, it’s a self unloading flat bed ;)
It technically is that, as well, and I’ve certainly seen them used to transport things short distances. At a top speed of 15 MPH (unless you know where to find the governor, but even then), it isn’t something you’d want to use to bring a bunch of lumber back from the lumber yard. More like bringing a broken towbar to an unresponsive GSE shop so that it can be left on their doorstep to shame them. As a random hypothetical.
Yeah I was thinking if the OP has never seen an airport and these vehicles.
In addition to that belt loader, there are a plethora of different kind of half-cockpit vehicles there. Ofc its easier there as these likely dont need to be registered for road use.
I’ve seen so many different types and makes.
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Clearly designed by someone who hasn’t used a pickup truck to it’s real potential.
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.
final destination vibes
I had a giant metal ladder fall off of the top of a work van and come right at my windshield while I was driving to my own wedding. i barely braked in time, but it had some serious Final Destination vibes. All things considered, I still think that the scariest thing that day was the final bill for the wedding.
good that it worked out at the end. otherwise might have been the worst day of of your wife’s life instead of the best. I’m quiet happy with my weddings Bill. we needed an official interpreter, because we have different mother tongues, which was like 100€ and that’s it.
We got pushed into having the large wedding that our parents wanted and what we were told we were “supposed to do”. Though it was beautiful, we both regret it. You are being much smarter about it.
i know that in many countries this is very often the case.
I strap my shit good. This is pre-tie down. Plus I was just going a couple blocks in town.
I thought the roof was attached to the truck and it was like a mobile hangout
Chicken coop.
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.
ceci n’est pas une truck
Et les “kei trucks”? N’est-ce pas un truck?
Cool! But I’m struggling with the title of the article. This cab truck was the most single ever? There were other cab trucks that were single, but this one was the most single of them all? Am I misreading this somehow, or is that title just weird?
Single cab trucks prioritize cargo space over seating space, generally having only a single bench seat that fits 2 adults and a child, or three often uncomfortable adults. This truck prioritizes cargo space to a much greater degree, having only a single seat, so it’s aggressively “single cab”.
Yeah I get that, but the wording of the title is weird right? They could have used different words making it a better sentence right? Or is it just me?
“This single cab truck has the highest bed to cab ratio.”
Like that for example?
Yeah it’s using the phrase “single cab truck” as a single adjective.
That is so wild!!!
Then you could add forklift forks and you have a sideloader!
Yard trucks are just a minor evolution away
Probably bad aerodynamic. Don’t they use something like that on the airport? Since they don’t drive far, aerodynamics are probably not that important.
I’d imagine if you’re transporting long, heavy things, you wouldn’t want to drive too fast anyway.
Depends on what you consider too fast, is driving the speed limit outside of a town “too fast”?
Depending on the load, it might be, a lot of factors there.
True but I wouldn’t want to catch the wind when driving speed limit outside of the village
Those aren’t used for transport, they are mobile conveyors for loading things into the belly.
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.
Cybertruck designer here: Just had a huge whipper (subscription based), some dishwasher style metal pannels, and we can sell these babies for 200k.
Looks very similar to our yard mules
Beautifully silly
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.
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.
