Clearly designed by someone who hasn't used a pickup truck to it's real potential.

ceci n'est pas une truck

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Then you could add forklift forks and you have a sideloader!

It may be because a large enough load could quickly block the driver's left-side mirror.

Oooh, another thing is that a heavy enough load may imbalance the vehicle enough to make it unsafe on turns.

Anyone see anything else?

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.

You joke but this is basically what a vintage British Bus looks like, except the non-cab side is for the Engine.

It would "work", but it would be aerodynamically unstable so would be limited to low speeds (<~25mph). This is why this configuration is quite common in construction/industry site machinery, where high speeds are unnecessary and unsafe.

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.

Because the steering wheel is on the wrong side.

Source: 'Merica!

Cybertruck designer here: Just had a huge whipper (subscription based), some dishwasher style metal pannels, and we can sell these babies for 200k.

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Looks very similar to our yard mules

Beautifully silly

Don't you hate it when you have a genius idea, only to find out someone else thought of it long ago? Nice try, Einstein. Back to the sandbox.

soo ... a tiny yarddog?

1960 DeKalb Lumberjack

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.

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.

It could probably hold 3-4 pallets, if it wasn't a drawing

Would be perfekt for jousting, if it wasn’t a drawing

The drivetrain doesn't have a place to live. The nose of a truck holds the guts, freeing up space for load in the other half. Moving the guts to a cab-over would shrink the available engine size. Having all the power train to one side would require entirely new engineering to have 2 double length axles with no counter spinning force, so torque on the frame would twist the chassis up at the far point like a lever.

Or it would be underpowered to prevent it, effectively a kei truck engine in a full sized truck body. It is going to work much harder in some way to be as successful as existing trucks.

Reminds me of this absolute monstrosity

Another case where vans are the superior utility vehicle: strap your long stuff onto your roof rack.

If this appeals to you then check out the Telo truck

In a collision, you are much safer if you are facing backwards because your spine aligns with the back of the seat instead of you rag-dolling forwards. So turn those seats around, too. The design is very human.

You can get this functionality by driving a hatchback and putting the passenger seat down. Those cars fit way more than you would think.

Funny. I was thinking how cool it would be if an EV truck with a frunk had a midgate, fold down front passenger seat, and ability to open the dash somehow to pass though very long things into trunk area.

Welvin Da Great called and is asking whether his friends Candice and Dick can fit in the truck.

I would fucking by the real version of that.

conditions:

No more than one computer.
Rolling chassis frame with a hitch.
Left hand drive.
Good HVAC with front and rear vents.
Physical controls for everything, giant central screen, no cellular.

Similar to a Long Tom/Island Cab truck.

I also had this truck idea. I've seen at least one real version of such a thing.