A friend in the UK has asked me to send a toy yellow cab and send it over for their grand kid. Yesterday I was driving up the NY thruway and stopped at a service area, as a large store is there I wandered in to have a deco for one, there were no yellow cabs but lots of toy lorries and I mean lorries ! Scanias, Ivecos and MAN’s, not one single US truck.
I would guess, as they are all made in China, that there are no American trucks in China for them to model on.