Hot in the Lot:
Katie Maccarone's Dodge Ram Truck
Little Macc Cruisin’ in the Big Macc
NEIRAD enilno editionWhile most of the DHS parking lot seems to be filled with Jeep Wranglers this year, one giant car stands out among the rest. It’s a 4X4 Dodge Ram pick-up truck. Who drives this macho car? None other than senior Katie Maccarone.
“It’s unique, not many girls have pick-up trucks,” Maccarone said. “My friends make a lot of jokes about it because I am a small person in a big truck.” Maccarone’s indigo blue pick-up truck has “the chrome packaging on the grill, with some pin stripe stenciling on the sides.”
“I think the truck suits her well because even though she is a little person she has a big personality,” senior Elyssa Ganser said. “She’s a funny, crazy, loud, sweet, and nice person.”
How did a nice, sweet girl end up in a big manly truck?
“My dad always had a red pick-up truck when I was younger and this blue one was the first car I learned to drive in,” Maccarone said. Maccarone’s dad used to drive her truck, but after she got her license it was all hers. According to Maccarone, it was difficult to maneuver such a large vehicle when she was learning to drive. Now she is used to it and she finds it more difficult to drive a smaller car.
“Someone who doesn’t know Katie would probably think it’s odd that she drives that kind of car because it’s unexpected, but it fits her personality well,” Ganser said. Other students agree. “The first time I saw her driving it I thought it was hilarious,” senior Sam Bryant said.
“I like being higher up off the ground rather than in a smaller car,” Maccarone said. However, she also added that it is quite a climb to get into the driver’s seat.
She can take it off roads, and can plow through snow and ice; however, it hydroplanes a lot in the rain, according to Maccarone. “It is kind of annoying sometimes because I have to go really slow around corners and can only park when there are about five spaces in a row open,” Maccarone said.
Maccarone uses the large flatbed in the back for dump runs for her dad, her tube in the summer when she takes her boat out on Long Island Sound, and sometimes she even puts friends there if she runs out of seats.
“I felt a bit uncomfortable and unsafe at first seeing her drive that car,” Bryant said. “But she soon gained my respect as a truck driver.”
In her distinctive car, her friends always know when it is her driving on the road. To top it all off, Maccarone has a good radio that is iPod compatible, with four speakers, to blast music for whatever trip she is taking. “I love my truck!” Maccarone said. “It makes me feel tough and powerful on the road.”
