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A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)
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[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Additionally, heavy vehicles cause upwards of 80% of road wear, which means we are subsidizing private transport companies by not forcing them to fund a proportional amount of road maintenance.

They do. There are additional fee's and fuel surcharges that states make transport companies pay for road upkeep.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They pay more but not 80% of the total cost of maintenance. That's what the distribution would need to be in order to cancel out the outsized influence they have on infrastructure degradation.