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The vast majority of road damage is done by heavy trucks. Don't need to tax these cars at all.
by coryrc 6y ago
The vast majority of road damage is done by heavy trucks. Don't need to tax these cars at all.
- horsawlarway 6y agoI think there's a lot of truth in that. That why I was so specific about including weight as a factor.
- bnt 6y agoBut you still need to maintain existing and build new roads, and not only trucks drive on the road. What about snow? It needs to be removed for normal cars as well as trucks.
- tshaddox 6y agoSnow removal is probably different, but the point is that road maintenance due to regular road wear would be significantly (perhaps at least an order of magnitude) less if there were only passenger cars on the road.
- adrianN 6y agoIt also needs to be removed for bicycles and pedestrians, who don't pay special taxes for that.
- coryrc 6y agoIn the USA, snow removal is (mostly) not paid from gas tax. Growth should pay for growth, so, no, we also don't need to pay for new roads. Roads are also funded by property tax.
- tshaddox 6y agoPassenger car road taxes are an immense subsidy of road freight.
- chrismorgan 6y ago… and this is why price comparisons between rail and truck freight are typically bad, my dad tells me: because railways are expected to pay for their tracks, whereas trucks’ use of the road network is massively subsidised by passenger cars.