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[quote]QUOTE: [i] Trucks use our public roads, yet pay little, if any, of the cost of repair, even though the road surface is degraded faster because of the increase in truck traffic. Most of the current roads and highways we have were not designes to carry the weight of todays 18 wheelers, and the road surface suffers. You, the taxpayer, repair the damage, so you can use the road too, yet trucks pay nothing towards this maintaince. [/quote] Umm, not true. I'm shipping manager for a manufacturing company and have a small fleet of trucks that run the Southeast and along the Eastern Seaboard. My tax burden for each vehicle I operate is $6000 a year in fuel taxes, road use permits, and license fees. I pay 24.4 cents Federal tax on each gallon of diesel I buy plus 7.5 cents + 3% of total sale state tax. If my driver has to use a toll road, I pay a much higher toll than an automobile does. For example, if the toll for a car is $3.00, the toll for my truck is $20-$25. I really don't see where I'm getting a free ride.
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