They need to have air brakes or be somewhere in the 12+ ton range to need special license.

Certain States allow you to tow a RV trailer with an additional trailer for your boat – essentially tandem trailers. No license needed.

Maybe this is confirmation bias, but when I see a vehicle that can’t stay in its lane or can’t make a turn, it’s inevitably a full sized pickup or suv.

There’s this one street corner near me that is admittedly a tight turn, it it’s near the elementary school and there are kids who walk. Every week or so in the winter, I’ll see tire tracks in the snow, on the sidewalk where kids walk to school, every day, from vehicles that didn’t make the turn and drive over the the corner of the sidewalk. It’s not like we have those tiny one lane paths the UK is famous for, it’s not that tight, any personal vehicle can make the turn, but some drivers can’t maneuver their vehicles well enough.

I’ve actually been wondering about putting together a petition to install different accessibility to the sidewalks. Our town uses the really nice ones where the entire corner is a ramp to the street. That’s great for all of us, but there’s no protection from cars. I wonder if we can go back to the older style with a full height curb aside from a specific ramp. Still accessible even if less so for all of us, but if it’s better at keeping the cars off the sidewalk, it may be worth it

Exactly. In Canada, the right wing gained 30 points promising to kill the carbon levy (they called it a tax). Government had to kill it or get voted out.

Also half the politicians are driving these monstrosities.

Maybe. If you pay by weight and distance, and focus it on EVs “paying their share”, you may get a lot of truck owners reacting in outrage over something they know nothing about. As an EV owner I would vote for it despite it costing me more, because it’s a fair way to do it, it might cut back in ridiculous trucks …. Although I might angle for the income to be dedicated to “transportation infrastructure “, not just roads

Then again, my brother got one of those Silverado EVs. That battery is three times the size of mine and the car approaches 10,000 pounds. At some point there’s got to be a weight limit

They're more of a status symbol at this point anyway. Adding more fees just gives it more prestige.

Bars

My insurance actually went down when I replaced my VW golf with an F150 lightning.

Conversely, my tabs cost 7x more.

But in CA, the value of the vehicle is very impactful and there's an additional $118 EV tax considered in registration fee calculation.

This would be great for EVs, because

• fair is fair
• politicians would stop trying to charge excessively
• more people would realize the full sized pickups are more of a problem than EV s
• if it encourages lighter EVs, that’s great!

and miles traveled

As long as it is odometer readings and not GPS tracking