Whilst I don’t doubt that, for a tiny proportion of Motability customers, pick up trucks would be a useful option – and I’m a great fan of having as much choice on the scheme as possible – I can understand why Motability are reluctant.
As has been pointed out, these are essentially commercial vehicles not cars and there would undoubtedly be people who would order them through Motability and then use them for commercial reasons, regardless of what the rules say. Before you know it there would be photos in the press of a “supposedly disabled” motorist manhandling large and heavy loads in his “tax payer funded pickup truck”. I think that the reaction to that would be even more damaging to Motability than the faux outcry that the Daily Mail generated about “luxury” cars that ultimately resulted in a cull of half the cars on the scheme, from over 4,000 to 2,000.
The chip shortage and other factors have further reduced the choice down to significantly less than 1,000 cars, leaving a large number of Motability customers without a suitable option for replacing their existing cars, and we are all hoping that the choice starts to increase dramatically asap, but I wouldn’t be holding my breath for pick up trucks.