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by hackernewds 1162 days ago
Why? Truck seamlessly and scalably move cargo for thousands of customers at once. Distributing that to hundreds of smaller trucks for tax efficiency would be worse for the env
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It wouldn't make sense to distribute to smaller trucks for tax efficiency when considering the cost of the extra trucks, drivers, and loading/unloading. And besides, trucks already pay more in fuel tax.

A mileage tax is going to be a necessity with electrification in the future, and it doesn't make sense for all weight-classes to pay the same tax as they don't do equal damage to roads.

>equal damage to roads.

That's an understatement. Afaik damage to the road scales with weight to the _FOURTH_ power.

Don’t wheels and weight distribution have something to do with this? Otherwise this property would be really easy to game.
yeah I think the power law is on axle load
Neither compares in efficiency to trains.
trains