Justifier

😂

I follow a lot of lawn care YouTubers

More than a few commenting about raising prices and canceling contracts of customers not willing to pay enough to cover it

Its not an insignificant difference either, like +$40 on a weekly cut for a quarter acre lot. That’s between a 35-50% price increase depending on the market of the people I’m watching

The trucks to get there being the big portion of that increase not the mowers, but certainly the mower/trimmer/blower opex increased as well

Regardless though anyone not running primary electric rigs are definitely hurting right now

Those who invested into it early, and especially those who got State and Govt incentives, before the current administration shut them down have a massive opportunity to cash in over at least the next ~2 years while this settles, keeping their prices just below whatever their competitors have to charge until their routes are fully booked while those running gas are forced to raise prices and renegociate contracts to maintain profits

No one cares about old trucks, and very few people are hating on them here

Its the new pavement princesses catching the smoke here, and intentionally blowing it in peoples faces irl

What I find hilarious is I’ve had my finger on the car market pulse as I’m looking to get a another vehicle between now and 2028 (electric, I’ll never own a gas vehicle again. An older unneutered diesel maybe, but never increasingly ethenol diluted American petrol)

The dealers near me hit a brick wall according to the websites I’ve been using, selling almost zero trucks since unleaded prices tipped past $4.⁰⁰ locally, and before that they were moving about 50% of their new stock of +$60,000 trucks each month, with over 85% moving before the 6 month mark which is frankly just danmed impressive that so many people can get that credited in this region

It’s pretty laughable to drive about here and see a brand new 2026 GMC top trim truck in front of a 900ft² 1960’s delapitated on-slab

The mirror in the picture is showing a round mirror in the reflection, the mirror in the meme is rectangular so its not the meme girl or mirror being portayed, but something out of sight of the lensbox