Check these out for yourself at http://www.trucknutz.com/
I am originally from kansas and I first saw these about seven or eight years ago. People who I went to high-school with would proudly wear a set of these on their rig. It was a joke, but they also took it to heart. It was like," when you see my car you better no mess with it. These were the same people doing burn-outs in their school parking lot and chewing tobacco during class. Myself being on the outside I thought this was funny, vulger, inapropriate and rude.
This is not apropriate for people of all ages . People should not have to see this unwillingly. I would think it would not be legal to drive a car around like that and after more research i found out that it is not legal in many states to have "In 2007, a proposal was made by Maryland delegate LeRoy E. Myers Jr. to "prohibit motorists from displaying anything resembling or depicting 'anatomically correct' or 'less than completely and opaquely covered' human or animal genitals, human buttocks or female breasts".[4] He referred to the testicles as "vulgar and immoral," and stated that his proposal was made at the request of a constituent who was offended by the accessories.[Now the state of delaware has banned them and in many other states the driver will be fined.
What are the origin of truck nutz. Was some person thinking of a way to capitalize?
Ultimately why did people make these and why do people buy them? I guess that its similar to how a guy prides his big package( as the stereotype goes). In our case the truck driver is proud of his big rig(large truck) and using the male figure to represent his machismo. The people I saw having these were always a specific crowd. They were the people who were chewing tobacco and doing burn-outs in the school parking lot. I always thought there was a strange duality to the social reaction to the truck nutz. I was an outsider and from the outside the "truck nutz" people acted like it was a joke. However, they must of still liked them enough to buy them and attach them to their car. From the outside it was outrageous. The "truck nutz" weren't only a joke but because of a group of people were riding around them them, they themselves became a joke. I wonder what kinds of people drive with "truck nutz" and where do they live? I have seem women on the highway on the highway with them. Thats a different story. I wonder what else they would want me to think than the stereotype they have placed on themselves. Even though they're illegal in a couple states and in most every state drivers can receive a ticket for having these the drivers with "truck nutz" must quite loyal to the image, because when I drive back through the midwest I'm guarranteed to see a set of these on the highway.
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