Izzat right?
You reckon it's those 4,000 lb cars ruining the roads, not those 80,000 lb trucks?
Clue: not true.
Well, don’t trucks buy gas or diesel fuel, and pay those taxes just as cars do?
Those trucks pay a lot more in other taxes, too.
True. Large, heavy trucks can cause thousands of times more wear and tear, of the roadway, compared to cars and light trucks. It’s literally an exponential difference.
We live 1/2 mile from one of the main arterial highways in our small SE Ohio town, and the roadbed of this highway has developed twin ruts due to heavy vehicle compaction. The local cement plant with it’s daily disbursement of loaded trucks is only part of the problem. The oil and gas industry is the icing on the cake. Adjacent states have contracted to dump brine wastewater from their own sites into Ohio wells drilled specifically for the disposal of water that is a typical residue from general oil and gas well development (Ohio well maintenance included). These brine trucks are on the highway day and night, driving to and from disposal wells in our area. Eventually the roadbeds will fail, the existing Ohio gas tax won’t cover the repairs that will be needed to sustain the brine truck cash flow into the Governor’s pocket, and the solution will be to hit the taxpayers up with a gas tax increase to “Maintain the Infrastructure”. /rant mode = off/