To give you a little idea of my costs, before I bought Kalifornia
prorated tractor license plate with an Arizona tag, it used cost me
seventy five bucks to drive from the scales at the Arizona border to
Phoenix each time. That's well over a buck a mile right off the top.
Luckily I had a half an extra million dollars from my gas station for my
hobby.
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calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Well, you are partially right, trucks DO pay a lot of taxes, which is
> the good, or bad, news. The worse news is that they do MOST of the
> vehicle induced damage to the Interstate highway system and contribute,
> at most, about twenty percent of the amount going to maintain them.
>
> The freight rates are in the toilet because of the huge number of OOs
> who are terrible business people and will in effect haul for free
> because they won't retire or find other employment. They buy all of the
> three year old trucks from the big truckload carriers-you think they
> LIKE baby blue, beige or orange??-at prices that let them own trucks
> for free, and they keep hauling for next to nothing to pay the
> insurance and truck payment.
>
> Here's my idea: put a federal excise tax on truckload freight , and
> put out of service all the morbidly obese, functionally illiterate, or
> rotten-toothed (did you know it can cause heart attacks and is
> therefore a safety issue??) drivers, OOs or company drivers alike. And
> require Class 8 truck companies to price their trucks the same to all
> buyers buying above three trucks. And require APU's on all tractors
> with sleepers unless the operator can prove they only stop at places
> with shore power and make every state outlaw idling like New York.
> Freight rates will go up, I guarantee.