The theory is that heavier vehicles cause more damage to the roads.
And heavier vehicles use more fuel, thus paying their "fair share".
Unfortunately for all of us, they get to pass those costs on to the
consumer and write them off on their taxes. We don't.


Its a fact that heavy vehicles do the damage.....they pretty much do ALL the
damage...

You can design a road to say have a load capacity of 10 tons....

And you could literally have billions of car passes over it and it wouldnt
damage it a bit....

Then you could have a few million passes of big 9.5 ton trucks and and it would
get damaged over a period of time....

But, get one sorry SOB with a 10.1 ton truck driving on it....and the road bed
cracks....and once it cracks its load capacity is pretty much gone and
virtually every additional vehicle pass (even little cars) just adds to the
damage....

I guess I am trying to point out that the damage function is VERY/EXTREMELY
nonlinear in relation to the load level....

And dont ask me what I think should be done to trucks/truckers that have been
found to be over the legal load limit...

take care

Blll