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[quote user="edbenton"]Same thing with alot of the produce yes there is that new train going to upstate New York however by the time they get it loaded and unloaded at each end a team truck could have been loaded made its run to Hunts Point in New York City dropped off and be on its way back to WA to PU another load.  I for one have made a run from Salinas CA to Greencastle PA in 48 hours with spring mix which is baby lettuce mix and that stuff is hotter than hot trucks do offer some advantages over trains.  And by the way Dave trucks do pay for the roads what do you think all the taxes they pay for on the fuel goes for right now the federal fuel tax on diesel alone is 33 cents a gallon plus the state taxes add all the other taxes the avarage trucke pays 30K a year in highway taxes a year alone that is BEFORE any income taxes.[/quote] Ed, pay close attention - I have never said that trucks don't pay their way.  On the contrary, I have stated quite conclusively that truckers do pay most of the cost of maintaining inter-state highways (e.g. including but not limited to those blue and red shield Interstate Highways), with state and local highways being partially subsidized with property taxes, sales taxes, etc.  This segues into one of the myths being perpetrated on this forum and other railroad information venues - that trucks are subsidized while railroads are not.  Obviously, it's not a simple as that, there are complexities to the various levels (federal/state/local) of public road funding.  The truth is that on the federal level trucks do pay their fair share, and since a comparison of railroads to highways is mostly limited to the interstate corridors, at that level it can be argued that there is an equivalence of "paying their own way" among both truckers and railroads.  And since railroads more and more are using trucks as the intermediaries between railhead and dock, there is no partiality at the state and local funding levels either between trucking companies and rail companies.
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