Absolutely. All you have to ask is why they need to own a truck and they instantly get overly defensive. I'm not saying there aren't cases where you need to own truck but the vast majority of cases people bring up don't even require a truck much less owning one.

[–] skqweezy@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's just get inspired by oats jenkins and his idea for redoing the traffic system and add a truck license, and you'll have to renew it every six months, just so they don't keep it forever

The license would be given to people that have genuine need for a vehicle like this, and don't have access to one (so if your job gives you a truck you can have it, it would have the job license on it, but then you cannot have your own license)

Otherwise they would just tell you to go fuck yourself because you don't need a truck like this

[–] arc@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I live in Europe where trucks are fairly rare but you still see large SUVs, 4x4s and vans around. My own feeling is that certain classes of vehicles should be considered commercial for the purposes of insurance, taxation, VAT, inspection, tolls, permitted usage and everything else. The legislation already exists for commercial vehicles so extend it to these kind of vehicles.

So is someone must have a stupidly oversized vehicle purely for personal reasons they can enjoy all the bullshit and restrictions that goes with it. Doesn't stop them complying but making it more onerous to do it will take demand for these vehicles off the market entirely.

[–] DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I agree, I think we could even go further and make vehicles of a certain size use cargo lanes on the highway.

My wife is European and lives in the US and she thinks the fact that giant SUVs and trucks can have such a vast size differential to compact cars, so that she is eye-level with their bumper, and that both use the same license and same lanes, is incredibly dangerous.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife insisted on getting an SUV for her car. It's a hybrid, but it's still an SUV. I really wish she hadn't gotten it. It's too big for me, I won't drive it. I can't tell her what to do with her money, but I didn't like that she got it.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

She says she likes being higher off the ground and feels safer in a big car. I'm completely the opposite.