Maybe. If you pay by weight and distance, and focus it on EVs “paying their share”, you may get a lot of truck owners reacting in outrage over something they know nothing about. As an EV owner I would vote for it despite it costing me more, because it’s a fair way to do it, it might cut back in ridiculous trucks …. Although I might angle for the income to be dedicated to “transportation infrastructure “, not just roads
Then again, my brother got one of those Silverado EVs. That battery is three times the size of mine and the car approaches 10,000 pounds. At some point there’s got to be a weight limit
80% of road damage are the semis that weigh 60,000 lbs. What do you think will happen to the price of goods if you ban the primary transportation of those goods?
My bad, I took the shortcut of calling g pickups: trucks. Currently large trucks are treated differently from passenger vehicles and I’m sure that would continue
As you say, if it were truly based on road damage, commercial vehicle would have to cover most of it. That may be fair, but yeah doesn’t seem economically sustainable
Maybe. If you pay by weight and distance, and focus it on EVs “paying their share”, you may get a lot of truck owners reacting in outrage over something they know nothing about. As an EV owner I would vote for it despite it costing me more, because it’s a fair way to do it, it might cut back in ridiculous trucks …. Although I might angle for the income to be dedicated to “transportation infrastructure “, not just roads
Then again, my brother got one of those Silverado EVs. That battery is three times the size of mine and the car approaches 10,000 pounds. At some point there’s got to be a weight limit
80% of road damage are the semis that weigh 60,000 lbs. What do you think will happen to the price of goods if you ban the primary transportation of those goods?
My bad, I took the shortcut of calling g pickups: trucks. Currently large trucks are treated differently from passenger vehicles and I’m sure that would continue
As you say, if it were truly based on road damage, commercial vehicle would have to cover most of it. That may be fair, but yeah doesn’t seem economically sustainable