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by thechao
928 days ago
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My suspicion is that we heavily subsidize road-freight traffic by not properly taxing very heavy vehicles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law Reasonably loaded freight trucks do about 10000x as much damage to roads, per mile. Freight trucks also run a lot further per day than regular vehicles. I know a lot of roads never see any freight haulage at all, but I suspect that major transits (interstate highways) are essentially a way to get the US public to pay for freight haulage jobs. I'd guess that last mile is far less damaging, as the box trucks weigh far less. |
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