The Phenomenon That Is The Bro Truck #Blogpost
So, what is it?
The Bro Truck is a phenomenon that has infested the Southeastern United States. It’s everywhere, except offroad where 4X4s truly belong. It’s given lifted trucks a bad reputation, and has become the extreme stance of the truck world: blamed for everything and hated by lots of people.
The Trucks
Bro trucks are all about looking tough. This means huge lifts, aftermarket grilles, wide black and chrome wheels, aggressive low-profile tires, and enough aftermarket LEDs to light up Tokyo for a week.
The most common bro trucks begin life as a four-door American full-size trucks built somewhere after 2000.
Bro truck wheels are usually contrasting black-and-chrome, with super low-profile tires. The wheels almost always have tonnes of negative offset, and are usually really wide.
Bro trucks often feature flashy grills, anything for attention. They usually have lots of chrome mesh, huge logos, and plenty of LEDs.
There are three kinds of bro truck suspension: overly lifted, stockbecausedaddywon’tletmeborrowhiscreditcardanymore, and the Carolina Lean. The overly lifted bro trucks are both the most popular and the most stereotypical. Google ‘bro truck’, and this is always the first result. Stock is just as common in the real world though, and looks just as stupid :/ But then there’s the Carolina Lean, which is hated by everyone except for owners and initiated enthusiasts. Living in Carolina, I expectably see lots of this crap, even though it’s much more common in the east instead of the west where I live. It looks like they’re constantly under heavy acceleration or carrying a 1/2 ton of bricks.
The exhaust on a bro truck is a key element to it’s ‘manliness’. It’s usually straight piped with the biggest pipes possible. The exhaust tip is usually big enough to hide a small dog, and able to be turned into a cannon barrel if necessary. The Diesels (which aren’t as common as you think) are almost always modded to roll coal in the most d-baglike way possible.
And this is what is driving this cancer. Country bros see these extreme show trucks and try to replicate it at home, but just create ugly bro trucks and influence others to do the same. In other words, “Don’t try this at home, kids.”
The owners
The average country bro is an obnoxious, immature 20-something-year-old. They usually love bro/pop country and think every other kind of music is rubbish. They are usually taking classes on an arbitrary subject at the local college with daddy’s money. They pretend to be tough and rugged, but are usually as ‘foo-foo’ as the regular people they like to hate on.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the Bro Truck is a phenomenon in the Southeastern US that is giving the rest of the truck-modding community a massive bad name. If you are a bro truck owner or enthusiast, don’t take any of this personally, and whatever you do, don’t live up to the stereotype of being a jerk. I wrote this article to shed light on the bro truck and in an attempt to divert (undeserved) hate away from the sensible owners of lifted trucks. Ogier out.
Comments
Which Carolina you in? Im in north. I go to a preppy school where there are lots of daddy’s money bro trucks (and jeeps) that never see dirt. If I were to get a truck either one of the smaller older Toyotas (not fluent in trucks sorry don’t know name) or like a mini truck.
I’m in North too, and I also go to a preppy-ish school. I already have a truck, it’s a beat-up 1985 Ford F-150 4X4.
where in NC are you?
Agree with dislike that unequilibrated tune, but we got to respect all of them
I appreciate the creative ones to an extent. Sadly, they are in short supply.
Bro trucks are pretty popular in the Northwest as well. As a truck guy, bro trucks irritate me. If you don’t need the extra ground clearance, don’t lift your truck. However, a Ford Bronco with some lift to it would make a cool off road rig.
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve noticed they give negative vibes to the entire truck community, even on CT. I hope this gets featured or atleast on the hot page, to maybe educate CTzens on the subject and stop the annoying truck hate.
A bronco doesn’t need a lift. It’s pretty capable stock. Plus if you lift it wrong, bad stuff happens, particularly on the front TTB suspension found on 80-96 Broncos. But a mild lift, if you must have one, will take it far. No need for anything above 8 inches.
We have them here in Canada too, theres a few around here that I see all the time and they never have any dirt on them. I don’t think they’ve seen dirt there whole life
That’s truck abuse.
I really like the look of lowered trucks myself, not so much it defeats the purpose of having a truck, but in my country all we have are what Americans would call mini-work trucks like the Ford Ranger.
Minitrucks are almost made to be lowered. Building a lowered SR20-powered Datsun 620 is definitely on my bucket list.
People at my school would call this nicely modified R-34 rice, but when they look at one of those Bro Trucks, they say it looks cool.
America, America I tell you.
My school is the same they say anything Japanese or Euro(I’ve got both) is queer, rice ,or gay
Great write up man. Bro trucks are here in hicktown NY too. Some people take them to a local mud bog, but never enter the truck and they usually wash it the second they see a wash station. I’ve also noticed that bro trucks are usually $40-50k trucks that are relatively new. I’ve rarely seen an older truck that has been “bro’d.”
I noticed you have an F150. What does she got? I own a 90 Bronco. Jonathan
Thanks a lot! Here in WNC bros pretty much never go offroad, since we have mainly crawling trails. The oldest truck I’ve ever seen bro’d is the 1992-era Dodge Ram, which looks horrendous when bro’d. And for my F-150, it’s a 1985 4X4 Explorer with the 300-6 and the Off-Road package. I kinda wish it didn’t have the safari-ish Explorer package, mainly because the auto-locking hubs and A/C were new to neanderthals and are a pain to fix.
Missing: Rebel flag everything
That’s not the bros, though. That’s the rednecks.
Bro trucks at school
The black Ram and red F-150 are the bro-est. the red Ram and Jeep aren’t too bad.
Does this count as a bro truck?
Not really.