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Yeah, it is, but it is also true A single truck degrades roads thousand times more than a personal vehicle, yet they don't pay the equivalent on taxes because
by CyanBird 5y ago
Yeah, it is, but it is also true
A single truck degrades roads thousand times more than a personal vehicle, yet they don't pay the equivalent on taxes because these costs need to be externalized in order to ensure that trucking remains redituable because of how fundamentally and structurally important it is for modern nations
Generally the best offset is just to reduce the amount of truckers needed for last mile delivery and just use railways for most of the travel as trucking again, relies on a high degree of externalities, be them social, economic or environmental to remain revenue positive
Again, trucking will forever exist, because it is important on a fundamental level, but ideally you would use railways as much as possible for logistics transport etc
- mensetmanusman 5y agoI also wonder about the road damage issue. I wonder if when truck drivers are controlling fleets of vehicles that follow along, whether the weight can be distributed much better like a train and would therefore not damage the road as much because the unit pressure intensity would be lower.