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That's backwards, trucks are the cause of most road damage in the first place. Trucking companies should pay enormous fees to use the roads given the disproport
by hamdingers 2mo ago
That's backwards, trucks are the cause of most road damage in the first place. Trucking companies should pay enormous fees to use the roads given the disproportionate amount of damage they do to them[1].
It should be cost prohibitive to use trucks for anything but local deliveries. Before you say "this will increase costs for consumers," recognize consumers are already paying for these roads.
1. https://roadtax.carlitelb.org/ https://roadtax.carlitelb.org/
- olyjohn 2mo agoTruckers pay for hundreds of thousands of dollars in fuel every year. They pay way more gas tax than you do.
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- hamdingers 2mo agoYes they do, but is it enough? Given a fixed per-gallon gas tax, if you assume a 3000lb, 2 axle vehicle that gets 30mpg is paying enough road tax to cover its usage, then an 80,000lb, 5 axle vehicle would need to consume 320 gallons per mile to be paying gas tax proportionate to its road usage. They don't (thankfully), so it's not. Trucks are massively subsidized by everyone else.