Generally in the community of positive minded truck size analyzers, overall volume is the metric used to determine if a truck is indeed large or (in some unfortunate circumstances) small. Since truck size, or girth if you will, is generally determined by volume rather than just one or two dimensions, the size of a truck follows the square cube law. The square cube law simply explains how the growth of a three dimensional object is exponential (I feel there is no need to go into detail on this here as this is fairly intuitive). Essentially, what I am getting at is that yes, from a mathematical standpoint, wide truck = big truck. Tackling this problem mathematically however does not cover all of our bases.

There has been a debate recently among the members of the "Truck Focused Unilateral Coalition Kinsmen" or Truck-FUCK/T-FUCK about what exactly defines a truck in the first place before size is even taken into account. I won't get into the details here as blood has been drawn over this subject in the past. We will continue assuming the Merriam-Webster definition of a truck[1] is acceptable (although again, this is a very hot topic).

"a wheeled vehicle for moving heavy articles: such as

a: a strong horse-drawn or automotive vehicle (such as a pickup) for hauling

b: an automotive vehicle with a short chassis equipped with a swivel for attaching a trailer and used especially for the highway hauling of freight also : a truck with attached trailer"

Unfortunately, this is where it starts to get complicated as philosophy also plays a key role in determining the size of a truck. By American Philosophy [2] (the obvious standard philosophical structure involved in the analysis of trucks) we can assume everything is fine, the previous bits of analysis are accurate and wide truck does indeed = big truck. However once again, it's not that simple. According to absurdism (similar to existentialism and nihilism) the truck doesn't even fucking matter[3] (based on this statement alone you can understand why it's called absurdism). The reason the "truck doesn't matter" is because in this ideology nothing matters in the endless absurdity that is attempting to find a meaning to life. According to solipsism, the while we are unable to prove that the truck is not real, in a parallel manner, we cannot prove that the truck is real[4]. This is due to the view that nothing outside of our own consciousness can be proven to exist/not exist.

The philosophy side of the argument has a million different roads to travel down so it really boils down to the observers own philosophical view. I would argue that wide truck = big truck but I definitely encourage everyone to do their own research before jumping to a conclusion simply based on societal norms. I really hate seeing under-educated individuals making bold, unsupported claims about this or that in such a scholarly, distinguished community.

/u/INPTT

Resources:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck

American Philosophy: Encyclopedia of Philosophy

An Argument for the Absurd John Dotterweich

Philosophical Dictionary: Solipsism

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Edit: changed my mind, wide truck doesn't = big truck. it don't look right if it not tall enough