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re: Has any other car been turned into rolling billboards faster than the Cybertruck?

Posted on 5/8/25 at 11:21 am to
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
79068 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 11:21 am to
I see regular model trucks with companies' names on it and have for decades.


I bet when I go to lunch, I will see a ford with advertising on it and not a Tesla.





This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 11:23 am
Posted by GeauxTigers123
Member since Feb 2007
2306 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 11:22 am to
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in my area I would estimate that 70% of vehicles that catch my eye with advertisements are what pointed to in my comment: F250s advertising those services.


We should have a thread about whether or not these owners make a good living. That would be fun.
Posted by Captain_Morgan
BR
Member since Jan 2012
486 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 11:31 am to
Scion xB
Posted by AwgustaDawg
CSRA
Member since Jan 2023
11290 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 12:59 pm to
I don't know that its any more common than what you see on any pickup. About half of them around me have some business name and phone number on them.

That said its brilliant to use one of the ugly bastards 'cause they are attention getters....they look they have already been in a bad truck wreck and almost nobody can turn away from the carnage of a bad truck wreck....

There is a guy down the street from a lot I am developing who hauls a 4 ton skid steer on a flat bed trailer with a Cyber Truck. He was at a convenience store where I was buying gas and I asked him what kind of range he got pulling that heavy a load....he said around 75 miles LOL. Thats 37.5 miles there and back and then 4 hours on the charger.....his words, not mine. That trailer and tractor are probably pushing the 11,0000 pound towing capacity of that "truck" but 37.5 miles???? Really???? Why would anyone do that?

I have a f150 lightning company truck. It charges from about 1530 to 0600 every day. About 14 hours or so. With one passenger it has a range of about 180 miles. With 2 it is about 140 and drops with every passenger. If you use the AC or Heater it has a range of about 130 miles max with one passenger. It is as useless as tits on a boar hawg. It will fly though....it will pin your head back but man the range drops like a shot if you hit it....it really is virtually useless....if it weren't for the $7500 tax credit we (taxpayers) gave every Tesla buyer in the beginning Tesla would never have made it.....just a simple statement of fact, no one would have even bought one without the taxpayer paying them to do so....same is true of the f150 lightning.....
Posted by AwgustaDawg
CSRA
Member since Jan 2023
11290 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:14 pm to
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And before you bark about range. Pray tell, when a gas powered truck drives from one place to a jobsite, how many miles is that typically?


I have a 25 HP backhoe that weighs about 3000 pounds and a 16 foot dump trailer that weighs about 6000 pounds. My gasoline GMC 3500HD will haul that load about 450 miles between fill ups and it takes about 10 minutes to fill it up and 7 of that is me getting a great big old fountain diet coke for $.79 (gotta love Circle K). I talked to a guy who hauls a 4 ton excavator and about a 3000 pound trailer with a cyber truck and he told me it had a range of around 75 miles and would take 4 hours to charge back up to that. My truck would pull that load just like it does my tractor...it gets exactly the same terrible gas mileage loaded or not. 37.5 miles in one direction from a charger is not a lot of distance between jobs....
Posted by H2O Tiger
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Member since May 2021
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Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:17 pm to
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Has any other car been turned into rolling billboards faster than the Cybertruck?


Every Chevy Aveo I see is wrapped with Chick-fil-A delivery ads.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
9832 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:18 pm to
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Has any other car been turned into rolling billboards faster than the Cybertruck?


Four figure a month truck notes don't pay for themselves.

Got to hustle for those benjamins.
Posted by GruntbyAssociation
Member since Jul 2013
6729 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:25 pm to
quote]Every other F250[/quote]

quote:

you're saying 50%?



Yes, every other would be 50%
Posted by GeauxTigers123
Member since Feb 2007
2306 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 1:29 pm to
Probably the owner wants one to drive for fun so he buys it through the business and writes it off (since they are so heavy).
Posted by WhiskeyThrottle
Weatherford Tx
Member since Nov 2017
6459 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 2:03 pm to
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So, just like every other truck?
Not sure your point.


I guess I'm talking from the aspect of someone who uses a truck as a truck more frequently than most. There's absolutely no way I'd ever have a bed cover on my truck. My welder is in my truck half the time and most of the other stuff I haul sticks above the bed rails anyways. My truck isn't a grocery getter.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
28417 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 4:43 pm to
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I guess the long flat shapes lend themselves to advertising space well


That and it qualifies for Section 179.
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
46020 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 6:14 pm to
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Blows my mind it's sold as a truck and yet, NEVER used as a truck.


THere's one of those things in my neighborhood - saw it many times and never ever knew it was a 'truck' until the recent hullabaloo after they started being torched.

Just thought it was ugly. I take offense to calling it a truck because pickup trucks are my true love.

Don't have one anymore since downsizing into this old-folks home = no room for two vehicles and no real use for a truck at all - :sigh:
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 6:15 pm
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
31819 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:00 pm to
They'd have to look better with advertising on them than the way they come.
Posted by Arkapigdiesel
Faulkner County
Member since Jun 2009
14688 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:08 pm to
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It’s smart.

I don't associate "smart" with a person that owns a cyber truck.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
51558 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:14 pm to
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it's such an ugly vehicle.

all the money in the world and they make a vehicle that looks like some of the mistreated Amazon boxes I get.

It looks like a big silver dumpster imo. I guess some look like a dumpster with ads.
Posted by SUB
Silver Tier TD Premium
Member since Jan 2009
23117 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:24 pm to
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I don't associate "smart" with a person that owns a cyber truck.


How do you know the person owns it? Maybe someone bought a bunch of cyber trucks and leases them out as rolling billboards?
This post was edited on 5/8/25 at 8:27 pm
Posted by Higgysmalls
Ft Lauderdale
Member since Jun 2016
7065 posts
Posted on 5/8/25 at 8:37 pm to
Never seen one that was wrapped
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