How much will this cost us?
The Feds are proposing to allow states to toll more interstates.We already pay state and federal gas taxes for these roads.Can you imagine how much more this could cost us to go camping since we would...
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DRTDEVL wrote:
If you only put 4,000 miles on your car a year, then 35 times is a valid argument. The average truck travels 140,000 miles per year due to severe limitations in Hours of Service rules.
The average truck travels 9 times the average distance of a car per year.
DRT
It appears your assumption considers only Class 8 trucks. Also lets assume the class 8 truck spends 100% of it's time on interstates while the car spends 50%. Does that mean the truck spends 18 times?
And the truck weighs 80K soon going to 90K. average care is what 3500 lbs. does the average car travel 4000 miles on federal roads? How much of the 140,000 miles is on federal interstate.
Then as the truck weighs 23 time as much as the car does it do 23 times the damage? I don't have the answers but am asking the question.
Hours of service apply to the driver and not the truck if I am not mistaken. so team drivers would be 280K miles
Having said that my question is still are auto drivers vs Trucking Companies paying their fair share for upkeep of our federal highways?