Is there anything wrong with shop=truck for truck dealerships?

I spotted shop=truck which is in relatively wide use, seems to make sense but is not included in for example iD presets.

I am considering making PR to add it - would it be bad idea for some reason?

I am asking as it was suggested to me to ask on forum before making a PR to tagging presets.

Note: feel free to make a PR for it in iD presets, I am not reserving it. At the current rate if I will get around doing it by 2027 things went well.

See Tag:shop=truck - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Label in id presets would be probably “Truck dealership”, though probably “truck shop” also should find.

See Add shop=truck · Issue #1824 · openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema · GitHub

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I have set up this wiki page some years ago because I felt it was missing. Actually there are different kinds of maybe similar dealerships selling trucks but maybe also other commercial vehicles (e.g. vans and goods vehicles), or trucks (for transportation but also “tools on wheels” like cranes, concrete mixers, sewage cleaners etc.)

“truck” is not an otherwise used vehicle type in OSM (but since when is OSM consistent) and might confuse the audience. So if you add a preset using it you need to think about what to call it.

hgv is used for access tagging, but this seems to be more of a legal classification. Though if " heavy goods vehicle" is more popular than “truck” than I guess that shop=hgv could be invented?

Though from quick look at their websites places like this rather describe themselves as selling trucks. Is this a wrong impression?

Looking at the internet, the only classification for a HGV is to be a vehicle carrying a) goods and b) have at least a weight of 3.5 t. Trucks/lorries are the usual example of HGVs but not exclusively so since bigger vans can also reach this weight limit (although such vans tend to be mini-lorrys with a boxy body).

This alone is a good reason to not use HGV for a shop value because it encompasses multiple different vehicles.

Historically, ‘trucks’ were hand carts that could be pushed by one man.

The we got the internal combustion engine, British English called such vehicles ‘lorries’, while American English called them ‘trucks’. They have grown to a typical 36-42 tonnes.

In the 1970s(?), vehicle emissions laws were implemented in the USA. Cars could emit no more than ‘X’. However, goods vehicles were exempt. This has lead to the explosion of people driving cars, eh trucks, that weigh 2-4 tonnes.

There is definitely a space there for OSM to have a tag for dealerships that sell large commercial vehicles. I’m not sure shop=truck is the best one.

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If shop=truck is not ideal, what could be a better replacement?

Does a better value for this type of shop exists?

This came to me in the middle of the night.

shop=lorry

Admittedly, that won’t work for vans or buses.