Electric Vehicles? Towing? Hauling?

JRscooby wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

JRscooby wrote:

This is true, if you understand that all taxes the trucking industry pays is past on to their customers, and on to the final users of everything.
I would like to know what you call "All in" and "fair share"...

Fair is those benefiting pay proportional to the benefits...so I'm good with trucks paying their fair share and it being passed along. No reason to artificially pass those costs to someone buying locally produced products.

Truckers tend to be afraid of this because it will shift more transport to rail and water. Particularly long haul trucking would be seriously impacted by this as the longer the distance, the more rail and water are viable options (local delivery not so much).

Well, you have shown no evidence that the total tax the industry pays does not cover the wear trucks put on the road. Bell, the average of what I have paid for cars in my lifetime would be lower than just the registration tax the last year I ran my truck.
I prefer local work, and understand if you only consider fuel the rails are much more efficient than trucks. But all in, I'm not so sure. Look at all the abandoned RR beds, and small towns that had freight (and passenger) service when I was a kid that don't now.
And I did pretty good some nights with a RGN moving railroad repair equipment from one track to another. Other times, a repair crew short of spikes and plates, load my enddump, and pay a premium rate to get them delivered to the crew. I liked hauling for the RR, except it was always a slooow pay.

Google Equivalent Single Axle Loads.

FHWA studies found that your average semi does the damage of 10,000 passenger cars. Even smaller single unit trucks are a few thousand times the damage.

So unless you are keeping that car for several centuries...it's not doing nearly as much pavement damage as your truck for the same miles per year driven.