Gotta paint a big wizard on the side for full effect

I guess I'm old enough to remember when vans were cool. 😭

Yeah. Don't recall whether it was, I think it was a Sienna.

given the cost to make that horrific of a modification, it wouldn't suprise me if it was something used for work.

Yeah this seems way too expensive to not have a specific use. I would assume this vehicle needs to transport 6+ people and also a bunch of stuff. There are plenty of vanity trucks you can buy without customizing a third seating row, that's easily a 6-figure job.

It's really not that bad, cab n chassis frame for a 12 foot deck, put a box on, find a wrecked truck with a 4 door and cut off the rear section. A good body guy can pull this off cheaper than you'd think....if you started with a 5 year old quad cab and chassis and a wrecked from front end damage rear of cab fine body and box, you could get it done price of a new truck, remember new trucks are 150 grand in Alberta now, full load.

You probably meant small dick energy.

I guess you also didn't notice the tow bar in the back. Huh. Trucks tend to sit high. So when you load them the truck levels out. Instead of squatting down in the rear. Also I don't know if this truck is a legit tow truck but if it is, say you had a family of 5 or 6 are on a road trip in your grand caravan. Get into an accident with a dumb shit wild deer/fucking phesant/ windigo w/e or brake down cause budy guy at the last gas station was dumping a bit to much home brew corn gas in the tanks. A regular tow truck fits only 4 people. Plus driver. So now you got to wait for another veichle. Out there shits so remote that could be 30 min or 2hrs depending on the stretch of road. Now you got this pigfugly monster. Your Pacifica/oddesy/Siena is on the hook. You and your family are all in the warm cab and no one is freezing. Because it's January. Yeah I forgot to mention it January in Alberta -30ºC

Didn't you get the memo, Canada is often colder than the martian equator. 95 percent of the canadian population lives in greater toronto, the lower mainland of BC, and a couple other cities. The other 4 million people live in an area almost as big as russia.

Vehicles like this one are fairly common in the Alberta oil industry areas, and while they are overbuilt, they're driving on roads that are worse than the ones through the old Bundeswehr training areas around Munster...if you took a Volkswagen transporter to a job site there, first you'd rip off the exhaust system, quickly followed by snagging the suspension components on something.

Here's a picture taken of an oilfield truck from Montana. (Sorry for the r link.)

Hey dipshit there are only 4 places in the world that have oil sands. Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Venezuela. So ther is no need for shit like this in Europe. Also the natural resource exploration pales in comparison to the rest of the world. Because Europe imports most of their natural resources from places that use "emotional support veichles". Also in europe, more often then not your job site isn't going to be 500km+ away from your origin. I've been in a many vans, fuck if I'm going to sit in a cramped ass tin can for 8hrs listening to road noise on an uncomfortable ass captains chair. When I can just sit in my lazy boy recliner in a quiet cab where I don't have to yell to talk to guy beside me.

I am literally telling you about oilfield policy and regulations, but sure, go off, anyone who actually knows can see who is making a fool of themselves right now. Yes, you can sometimes take other things on site, but there is a requirement to have at least one 4x4 pickup and the diesel requirement is real. 20 years ago is 20 years ago, I used to use a 2wd chevy 3/4 ton gasser too.

they're operated as public transport, it's just that lines aren't well connected.

it's nowhere near as viable to rely on public transport in north america as it is in europe.

AfaIk, to put a vehicle into category car (class B) or truck (class C/C1), its length doesn't matter. The only important factor is the maximum permitted total mass, which is 3.5 t for a 'car' or 7.5 t for a light truck (C1) or 'unlimited' for a regular truck (C).
Essentially, this the limiting factor here to be considered as class B 'car': As the empty mass of that vehicle is probably quite large, it's subsequently not permitted to be loaded with noteworthy amount of freight, to remain below 3.5 t, perhaps not even the 5 people that would fit inside.
Thus, if it's not completely hoax, it only is allowed to be driven by those that have a C1 licence, which is either professionals or, e.g. in Germany, older people who've had that included in their 'class 2' licence.

You don't have cube vans, wherever you are from? Maybe "delivery lorries?"

"Semi trailer" actually refers to the trailer itself, not the tractor. a "full trailer" has it's own steer axle, think like a hay wagon. a "semi trailer" has it's steer axle provided by the tractor pulling it. a "cart trailer" is like 2 wheeled buggies put half the weight on the propulsion device, often a horse. Anyways, when people say "semi truck", they either don't know or are referring to the fact of what it pulls, not itself....use it to pull anything else and it is no longer a "semi tractor"

You can on the front wheels, but not the rears.

Honestly I find the recently painted or cleaned Safeway exterior to be more convincing. I've never seen one that looks like it had been painted since 1993.

That's not lifted, they cut the fenders to allow bog tires without geometry changes.

too many oddities in one picture, fucking LOOK.