I dropped my niece off at her elementary school the other day. Being newer to the process I parked the car instead of the whole drive thru setup they have in the USA. I saw all the huge SUVs and trucks and I knew I had to walk with her the mere 25 ft (7m?) because they would not see her. Sure enough, one of them was about to take off and braked hard when they realized I was there, but my niece got scared. I’m sure the driver never knew she was even there.

Huge trucks make sense as work vehicles when the job requires that you haul or tow huge amounts of heavy equipment or materials. That is a pretty small percentage of the population. Lifted vehicles make sense if you need to go off-roading. Only way a huge lifted truck is reasonable is if you need to off-road with thousands of pounds of materials and equipment.

I can’t imagine many people have any real need for that. Non compact trucks shild require an additional license, and be taxed very heavily or require extra expensive registrations with the ability to write most of that off come tax season for people who’s work requires it.

Bob in accounting does not need a lifted F450. Bob in accounting is a huge hazard to everyone else on the road every time he drives it to work and back home and to gym 2 times a week.