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It's barely a blip on the radar compared to the large trucking industry, whose tractor-trailers cause about 2500 times the wear and tear on road compared to a c
by baggachipz 3y ago
It's barely a blip on the radar compared to the large trucking industry, whose tractor-trailers cause about 2500 times the wear and tear on road compared to a car[1].
[1] https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-trucks-do-our-roads https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
- bluGill 3y agofor main roads. However for back roads and residential streets the road is designed assuming only a few semis per year (mostly moving trucks which are already lighter than average) and so the heavy car every day is a much larger share of the wear.