The Pankian Metaphor 3065

the design and cost of the majority of the road systems are based on heavy truck mile-axle-load requirements. consumers have somewhat been encouraged to participate and make use of the infrastructure ... in part because the current infrastructure is being for by fuel use tax levied across all users of fuel (if consumers are using 99-plus percent of the fuel ... that gives an enormous base to spread the costs across).

I didn't say that the highways are mainly for heavy truck use ... i said that the design, cost, and maintenance are almost all

I don't know where you came up with highways are mainly for heavy truck use.

I have said that the design, cost, life-cycle, buidling, maintenance, aka ... nearly everything ... is solely driven by the number of heavy-truck axle-loads. The highway building and standards document i've frequently recently referenced state the highway design criteria is solely based on target number of heavy truck axle-loads ... that any use by consumer vehicles is immaterial; aka consumer vehicle use has not impact.

you appear to have misread what I have wrote.

If one conjectures there is a policy to have a subsidized extensive highway network with high heavy truck axle-load design point .... and that consumer vehicle use has little or no impact on such highway operation or design ... then it might be desirable to encourage lots of consumer vehicle use so that they are relatively complacent in paying possibly 99plus percent as a road use fuel tax ... as opposed to an infrastructure cost fee ... which might shift nearly the entire bill to the heavy trucking industry.

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