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For people that don’t know the math behind this, it is astounding. >when you double the weight per axle, you increase the road damage by 16 times >For example
by JohnJamesRambo 4y ago
For people that don’t know the math behind this, it is astounding.
>when you double the weight per axle, you increase the road damage by 16 times
>For example, while a truck axle carrying 18,000 pounds is only 9 times heavier than a 2,000-pound automobile axle, it does 5,000 times more damage.
- freeqaz 4y agoMind throwing a resource that I could review about this? I'd love to share it with my friends, as well.
- jdironman 4y agoEven more so, sharing with the general public through available media channels. Anything that is extremely detrimental to the public health, or the public lands and property should be the loudest thing mentioned. It should become so ingrained in the publics opinion that the only course of action is "How to fix this? Or how to prevent it from continuing?"
- Scalestein 4y agoLooks like here https://www.gao.gov/products/ced-79-94 https://www.gao.gov/products/ced-79-94 "Excessive Truck Weight: An Expensive Burden We Can No Longer Support" from GAO
- JohnJamesRambo 4y agoThe gao report is good and here is discussion of the equation. https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-trucks-do-our-roads https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
- causality0 4y agoThis is why arguments that road-maintenance taxes should be applied to BEVs and bicycles are horseshit. Everything lighter than 4,000 pounds is essentially a rounding error as far as damage to road surface goes.
- maxerickson 4y agoIs the argument that they are responsible for road damage, or is the argument that they are likely to pay the tax and keep the road maintained?
- hnick 4y agoWouldn't this in effect add a regressive tax to staple products like bread and flour, which are transported by trucks and would require raised prices to be passed on? I'd be interested in seeing the numbers and what price rise if any would be expected.
- jrajav 4y agoAre trucks an unavoidable reality of transportation? I don't think so. If there are ways to transport those staples aside from using trucks, it seems like an effective tax on using trucks would just be an optimization that encourages alternatives that don't spread as much damage onto general infrastructure.
- bargle0 4y agoWhat are the alternatives? Back every store up to a rail line?
- swayvil 4y agoLocalize manufacturing for one.
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- throwaway0x7E6 4y agomanufacturing out of thin air? if you aren't transporting the finished product, then you're transporting the ingredients. unless you picture raising wheat in urban environment, in which case I'll just leave you to it.