I feel like they should also require special licenses. Doesn't australia do that?
They need to have air brakes or be somewhere in the 12+ ton range to need special license.
Certain States allow you to tow a RV trailer with an additional trailer for your boat – essentially tandem trailers. No license needed.
No politician would support it because of the votes it would cost them.
Exactly. In Canada, the right wing gained 30 points promising to kill the carbon levy (they called it a tax). Government had to kill it or get voted out.
I'm not sure. The insurance, fuel, and depreciation on these things already makes them really expensive. In my part of the country, the registration taxes are $60 per year or so, a laughably tiny fraction of the cost of owning a car. Even multiplying them 10x wouldn't make them a major expense compared to the insurance on a pickup truck.
They're more of a status symbol at this point anyway. Adding more fees just gives it more prestige.
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My insurance actually went down when I replaced my VW golf with an F150 lightning.
Conversely, my tabs cost 7x more.
But in CA, the value of the vehicle is very impactful and there's an additional $118 EV tax considered in registration fee calculation.
Taxing vehicles by gross vehicle weight and miles traveled is probably a good strategy, as more vehicles are BEV and the meager gas taxes in North America fall farther behind compared to escalating road maintenance costs.
Oh hell no. Canada had a carbon tax on fuel and trucks sales only increased. You can't fight fashion with taxes, people will just go into debt and then throw out the government when they are poorer. I have tiny nurses driving to work in F150s and all the do is whine about aFFoRdAbIlIty.
Its terrible how the auto industry responds with "we'll install pedestrian sensors with auto braking" instead of trimming back the massive sizes and 50% bigger blind spots. And go figure they cost about the same to make, yet charge so much extra money... No wonder the avg vehicle is over $50k, cuz trucks and SUVs have surpassed 70k on avg smh.
No, but in a rollover, your massive truck or SUV is very heavy. That's why pillars have increased so much.
I was in a collision with a cyclist once. He ran a red light and came out from in front of a box truck in a turn lane right in front of me on a road with a 45mph speed limit.
He was badly injured, but I was driving a sports car with a low, long hood, so the injuries were to his legs instead of his chest or his head. Large four wheel drive pickup trucks were already the norm in the area, so he was lucky in a sense.
Those trucks have 12-16 ft front blind spots. Brahs are running over their own children.
I’ve noticed a lot of cyclists completely ignore stop signs and traffic lights.
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Just make them pay double the taxes and eventually they will disappear.
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