This picture was captured from a camera mounted on the handlebars of my bike, approximately three and a half feet off the ground, as I was dropping my kid off at soccer practice.
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The soccer field is half a mile from our house, but my kid can't go there on her own, or even ride her own bike with me, because of vehicles like this. There is zero chance the driver of that truck, or the hundreds of others like it that congregate at the soccer fields every evening, would see her.
There is no place for vehicles like this anywhere on city streets. And especially not where little kids hang out.
I take a lot of photos of these trucks, trying to illustrate just how menacing and out of place they are. I get a lot of grief for it too, but the thing is, when I encounter one of these monsters while walking or biking with my kid, it's almost always in a place that kids should expect to feel safe: on a neighborhood street. Next to a playground. At the bus stop. In the school drop-off line. In a crosswalk. At the soccer park. In a bike lane. On a sidewalk.
It's not ok.