I got clobbered by a huge Doge Ram last September while riding my bicycle to work. The speed limit was only 30 and he hit me coming from a red light so he maybe was going 20ish to 30ish MPH. Despite the slow speed he managed to break several bones in my foot, broke/dislocated my hip and broke several of my ribs.

There really isn’t a good reason to own one of these for personal use. My company uses those trucks to haul around big construction trailers and those trailers basically never come unhitched. I can’t imagine why you would need something that powerful for personal use and I think they should be banned from local traffic or at minimum kept away from roads that share bicycles.

I agree with you mostly, and I absolutely hate these things as well. Here’s the 3 reasons someone might have one of these for personal use…

1.) Heavily vested in the culture war shit.
2.) Maybe they own a boat or something that needs to be hauled in a trailer and the engine on a standard size vehicle isn’t sufficient.
3.) They live somewhere really cold and remote and need to attach a plow to the front during the winter in order to leave home.

I have regular need for a truck to carry lumber to and from home improvement box stores and lumber yards (it's remarkably inconvenient to carry a 10' 2x4 in anything that doesn't have an open bed, and you can't fit a 4x8 sheet of plywood inside anything smaller than a panel van). But even with that, it's far, far cheaper for me to rent a truck for a few hours when I need one than it is to make payments on one, pay for insurance, gas, tires (!!!), repairs, etc. It would be nice to have one on the forest service roads around here--I broke 2 motor mounts on a Civic on a forest service road--but that's uncommon enough that it's not worth the purchase.