When you have a truck with a trailer on it, parking across multiple spots is usually the only way to park. Keeping in mind that the truck needs to pull across multiple spaces with a trailer, they actually need a series of 8 or more unoccupied spots. Odds are they don’t want to park near any other cars, since backing up with a trailer is never fun, and the last thing you want it to increase odds of dinging another vehicle.
In a normal parking lot, people will very often park a little further away rather than park immediately adjacent to one another, essentially taking away the huge islands of open space that parking a truck/trailer requires. It’s pretty easy to imagine how in a smallish parking lot with 60% empty spaces this could be the only available spot for them to park.
And as others have said, it might have just been for a minute. It’s a still photo.
I get it in terms of media properties and franchises. That’s been a part of fandom forever. It’s just weird and off-putting when it’s applied to owning a durable good. Worse when the “family” members also worship the company founder or leader, as in the case of the Musk fanbois (some of whom apparently have no problem dozing someone over a minor dick move).
Sucks to be other people when dude with a trailer needs to go somewhere, huh.
When we have to go somewhere with a trailer attached, that significantly constrains our options in terms of running other errands on the same trip. Largely because we aren’t able to load a half dozen extra parking spaces in the back of the truck, and, apparently, lack sufficient feelings of entitlement.
This was clearly malicious intent by someone who is invested in fossil fuels and resentful of the rise of EVs. The only unfortunate thing is that people checking the reviews risk missing the one-star one unrelated to ICEing:
I decided to use these guys to apply polyurea my roof of my business. They proposed a price, and exceeded the price substantially. Not only that, they used cheap Chinese materials, instead of the agree’d upon materials. These guys are scammers. Just look at their website. I should have went with my gut on this, now they have ghosted me and won’t return my calls. Time to lawyer up.
like exxon-mobile executives drive big trucks around the country parking them temporarily in front of ev charging stations because lobbying republicans and flooding our government with money no longer works?
and a review which disses the company is clearly unrelated to this event because they don’t mention the poorly parked truck?
hmmm
it’s definitely not the first time an entitled truck driver acted like a jerk. the appropriate level of response is to simply yell and them and flip them off
baring any other context this is the simplest explanation. it happens all the time where ive lived, just usually there’s no ev charging around.
OK, this is a pretty extreme reaction given the full story. Somehow people are managing to say “imagine a truck like this blocking a gas pump” while managing to somehow never having the experience of having a trailer block a gas pump (which is extremely common near any highway). The guy shouldn’t have done it, but these guys are constantly parked in front of the compressed air and vacuums or blocking pumps or whatever else. And even places they have dedicated parking for trucks with trailers (not semis) at truck stops regular cars park there blocking those spaces when they get busy.
Not gonna lie, I lol’ed. If you’ve ever worked on a hay hauling crew, then you’ve seen this exact same thing, but at 5:30 AM, with a much bigger trailer, taking up all the spaces in front of a quickie-mart. There’s always that one guy.
The “brand Family” terminology has become widespread through American marketing culture in the last 10+ years. There’s a huge population of people that have an unhealthy relationship with Tesla and Musk, but using “Tesla Family” is pretty benign and comparable to other car manufacturers and brands.
Let put it in an easy way:
If the guy was blocking 6 gas pump with his trailers instead of Tesla chargers; it will be acceptable because it’s the only way to park a trailer?
You are cynical but it is misplaced. EV charging is a moving target and there are several “standards” out there that are used by different vehicle manufacturers. Tesla’s patents on superchargers is free for other automakers to use (SOURCE) since 2014 and rumors are that some have taken them up on the deal.
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but this is something that most people who drive cars have dealt with at some point, so seeing a photo of it isn’t likely to raise hackles that much. Most reasonable people would say “Oh, well, I bet that truck driver can’t wait to be done so he can get out of the way.”
On the other hand, after this the employer may decide to instruct his employees on the subject of courtesy. When you drive around in a vehicle that has a company name on it, expect to have the company judged on your behavior.
