Fluid fill speed humps cost more and wear faster due to fatigue of moving components. Road maintenance is already a ponzi scheme, I can appreciate why local government doesn’t want to exacerbate that.

The best solution is the most simple one: Narrow the lanes and plant canopied trees (for psychological reasons beyond my understanding, having a ceiling or obstruction above drivers slows them down as well).

I think they might encourage these people to buy luxury SUVS instead.

Yes, they absolutely encourage motorists to get inherently less safe vehicles. They also impede emergency vehicle access, are a hazard to road users and increase wear on vehicles. Taking action against people with sports cars is an insane starting point in a reality where SUVs and trucks exist.

Speed humps are objectively a bad solution, you can achieve the same desired outcome (slow traffic down) by reducing lane width. Adding bike lanes or planter boxes are both cheaper solutions without the same downsides.

I felt it was obvious I was talking about tradesmen and workers doing work, with all the talk about toolboxes and having to walk into the tray (and given that what most truck owners like to pretend to be). For use as a work vehicle, doing work tasks for tradesmen, a van is far more practical.

Are you implying that construction workers who move around a lot need a gigantic camper when they move between jobs? Because I realize that yanks do tend to do that, though I’d argue that this is more a reflection of yankee culture than applicability for actual work.

they ride a bit lower while having a same or higher ceiling height

This is the line that gives away why they’re unquestionably better if you actually need to use it for work.

These jackasses with a tray 1.5m off the ground clearly aren’t regularly needing to get to their oversized toolbox at the back of the tray, because clambering in and out of that thing is an enormous pain in the ass.

This gets brought up so much because it clearly differentiates the people doing work from the people playing dress up.