Not a new concept.

Post #204,260 by Andrew Grygus 4/21/05 10:40:34 AM Reply	Not a new concept. It's been around for years, but has a severe logical flaw. Fuel efficient vehicles are generally smaller and lighter, causing less wear on the infrastructure and less traffic conjestion than larger heavier vehicles. I'm sure this theory is promoted by and somehow financed by the auto industry, who's large heavy fuel guzzling SUVs are obscenely profitable because people stupid enough to buy an SUV are stupid enough to overpay for it. The Ford SUV factory is the most profitable manufacturing facility in the western world according to many reports. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #204,300 by a6l6e6x 4/21/05 3:03:48 PM Reply	An old statistic. Probably from the time cars weighed about 2 tons. A loaded semi (18 wheeler) causes 7000 times the road wear of a single car. It's obvioulsy not a simple linear function of weight. Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #204,310 by scoenye 4/21/05 3:54:04 PM Reply	It's close to exponential You should see what damage an overloaded logging truck causes... Most of it is due to the visco-elastic nature of asphalt. Deform it enough and it comes to a point where it tears instead of rebounding when the load is removed. That kind of deformation is permanent. A car doesn't have the mass to cause that much displacement.
Post #204,341 by JayMehaffey 4/21/05 4:49:49 PM Reply	Which is why per axle fees are stupid also A lot of places charge trucks based on a fee per axle. Which makes truckers want to overload their trucks to keep their costs down. A ground pressure fee would be a lot better but it's a lot harder to figure then counting axles. Jay

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