travelnutz wrote:
OTR trucks pay 3-10+ times the fuel tax of the average car/light truck based on MPG's alone. License fee yearly is approx 35 times as much as a car/light truck. Truck pay the lions share or the fuel taxes and license fees in this nation while being a small percentage of the vehicles used our nation's roads. They are more than paying their own way!
While charging their customers a fuel surcharge. License fee 35 x average car and put 20 x as many miles on federal roads. The difference is the avg car is 3500 to 4000 lbs while the class 8 truck weighs 80K lbs loaded. Who do you feel damages the road more?