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
Congress studies tax penalizing high fuel efficiency
- (tuberculosis)
- (7)
- April 20, 2005, 09:24:10 PM EDT
develop a chip to roll back odometer on new cars
-NT
- (boxley)
- April 20, 2005, 09:28:36 PM EDT
Time to build an empty lot on Oregon State University...
-NT
- (hnick)
- April 21, 2005, 07:17:54 AM EDT
Not a new concept.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (3)
- April 21, 2005, 10:40:34 AM EDT
An old statistic.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (2)
- April 21, 2005, 03:03:48 PM EDT
It's close to exponential
- (scoenye)
- (1)
- April 21, 2005, 03:54:04 PM EDT
Which is why per axle fees are stupid also
- (JayMehaffey)
- April 21, 2005, 04:49:49 PM EDT
Could be a good idea
- (JayMehaffey)
- April 21, 2005, 10:53:45 AM EDT