Idk maybe it's not a thing in Chicago. There is lots of parking in Bmore because the city is at 2/3 it's population peak and public transportation is dogshit. Even still I wouldn't say big trucks are extremely common, just not unusual.

When the BLM protests were first kicking off I kept bracing for right wing reaction and once when driving home back to the city a couple huge lifted trucks were coming up behind me one with a big black flag leading them and I thought it was a thin blue line flag and my heart sunk until he passed me and it was two middle aged black dudes and the flag was a BLM flag lol