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Useful for carrying massive things every single day, completely useless for all other purposes.
I noticed that car owners never use their cars to their fullest potential. You have all this additional space just being permanently unused, which just worsens highway traffic. Not to mention all the additional pollution you're now responsible for because that big ass car is not an EV.
Just get a regular sized car if you don't wanna bother transporting 3 grand pianos to the same two places every single day. Oh wait, now you have to retune them too.
The bed of those massive trucks isn't big enough to fit a single grand piano, much less 3. They just made everything else bigger. The beds are still the same size as a 1980s Toyota pickup.
The beds are so tiny on some of those trucks, they're useless for any cargo job, at most they're useful for camping trips, so you can throw a cooler back there, and some bags. Maybe haul a small boat.
We call them "daddy's little boy trucks" where I live.
Wow, I can't believe I overestimated the size of these things.