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Trucks pay a lot of taxes, both in fuel and otherwise. True everyone who uses diesel pays those fuel taxes, but the number of diesel passenger cars in the USA i
by throwaway201103 6y ago
Trucks pay a lot of taxes, both in fuel and otherwise. True everyone who uses diesel pays those fuel taxes, but the number of diesel passenger cars in the USA is so small that it can be ignored.
In 2016 commercial trucks paid $18.4 billion in federal highway user taxes and $21.6 billion in state highway user taxes[1]
[1] https://www.ccjdigital.com/heres-how-much-trucking-paid-in-highway-user-taxes-in-2014/ https://www.ccjdigital.com/heres-how-much-trucking-paid-in-h...
- ProfessorLayton 6y agoCommercial trucks may be paying more taxes nominally but they are not paying for the road wear that they cause. A commercial long-hauler causes 1,408 times more damage than a passenger vehicle. Even something like a garbage truck is 1,279x worse [1]. What can’t be ignored is the level of subsidies being offered to heavy vehicles. [1] https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/201432.pdf https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/201432.pdf