• Mr_Smiley@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    What a load of shit. Pretty sure roads are already used by many vehicles of Greater mass than 7000lbs. Trucks. Buses. Coaches.

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      8 months ago

      18 wheelers and other heavy vehicles are definitely not going to be stopped by a guardrail. They also disintegrate any small passenger vehicle they come in contact with at any significant speed. I’m not sure how pointing out that they are dangerous is a load of shit.

      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.

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        8 months ago

        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.

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          8 months 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.

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      8 months ago

      But not with nearly every vehicle being one of them and operated by people with CDLs that understand a lot of the safety features of the road aren’t going to work for them.

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        8 months ago

        Mentions skidding on ice in first paragraph. No amount of training can reverse the laws of friction.

        Thing is, I agree and think normal consumer passenger cars are getting far too heavy. Like people.