That's definitely true. It's also a concern for a lot of infrastructure like parking garages and bridges.

I suspect it's left out because the site focuses on tech, but I've seen a few articles looking at that this year. I think some states already do licenses based on weight, though arguably it's not enough.

Apparently, there's some loopholes that manufacturer's are using to justify increasing weights (eg. this ), and a similar taxbreak from some recent legislation for cars over 6k lbs.