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... Brian makes a point that might be what the texts are alluding to. He
shifted the question to what the stationary road is doing to the tires.
Here we have a static frictional force (with no displacement of road or
bottom of the tire) being applied - and an associated acceleration of
the truck. No one would argue in this case that the road was doing work
that resulted in the KE of the truck - the engine is ultimately the
source of the motion.