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  This is why I hate it when people still use terms like half ton for modern pickups.
context: I walked with a heard in Wyoming and got the sense that they would fuck up a car that hit them. How did 13 die? >
  
  Apparently it was a large semi-truck >
  
  Like a semi-semi >
  
  A quarterly >
  
  Pickups actually used to be called by how much payload they could carry. So you had half, three-quarter, and one ton.
  They’re still called that of course, but even a half ton these days can carry a ton. And a one ton pickup can carry 3 and a half with duallies. 
  Random tangentially related truck fact of the day. Course I think there’d have been a slightly better outcome if they’d been hit by 2 to 5 tons of pickup as opposed to 18 to 40 tons of semi :/
  Edit: was a bit high with some of the weights and it bugged me.