I learned to drive in NE Ohio, and was driving a semi at 14 -- my brother and I had a trucking company then.
I had a football scholarship at UNC, Chapel Hill and one day it had snowed an inch or two, and the police stopped traffic and warned them they could not make it up the hill to Chapel Hill. Geez, the hill is not that big.
It was a piece of cake for normal tires and a normal car.

Rick