[tankerdude]

As we have seen, the heavier vehicles do disproportionately more damage than a lighter vehicle. If you road repair, tax by a formula of weight and mileage if you must.

Having a driver if a hummer pay the same taxes based upon miles driven versus a a VW bug really doesn’t make sense when we know the stress put in the road by the hummer is substantially more.

Lastly, for LA, having a disincentive to have an emissions free car while driving just gets the air quality even worse.

[kwhitefoot]

It's not the Hummer that is causing the damage to the roads. It is the big trucks.

See for instance: https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weigh...

[dannyw]

For context, a loaded truck does more than 10,000x the amount of damage as a normal car. The damage is the 4th power of the axel.

If tolls and road usage taxes were fair and proportionate, you should be paying a $0.01 toll while trucks should be paying $100.

Source: AASHO Road Test

[wtvanhest]

Road damage is part of the equation (repair costs), the other part is congestion (capital costs for additional capacity).

[User23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weigh_station