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A license to operate your TV? How utterly ridiculous!
I wonder......do they require a license to distribute licenses? And what about a license distributor licensing license? Would that come from the ministry of frivolous licensing?
Wow. It seems like a Monty Python sketch but sadly it's closer to reality.
Relating to the original topic, the "road taxes" here vary from state to state and the method of collection is shoved away from the passenger motorist but piled onto the commercial transportation sector. Freight movers are the ones who get hit with the big bills for infrastructure. The exception (sort of) is with toll bridges and highways. Still the movers of goods foot the higher end of the bill.
Example: The toll for a passenger car to cross the George Washington bridge from NJ to NYC is $8.00 but 5 axle trucks pay $40.00
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is the same except it also includes a fee schedule based also on the weight of the vehicle as well as number of axles which put that vehicle into different classes and thus different toll rates. For comparison purposes: A class 1 vehicle (standard passenger car) going from the PA/NJ border to the PA/OH border would pay $28.00 . A class 7 (tractor trailer weighing 62,001 lbs to 80,000 lbs) pays $151.60. Now get into oversize loads and it gets astronomical! A class 9 (weighing 100,001 lbs and over) would pay $1,124.55!!!!! Add to that the cost of possibly 2 escort vehicles and you see where it can go.
(Rates as per official PA Turnpike rate chart effective 1-2-11 http://www.paturnpike.com/toll/tollmileage.aspx )
The average heavy hauling truck pays in the neighborhood of $14,000.00 in highway taxes each year. Multiply that by the estimated 4 million heavy trucks using the roads and you get an assload of cash.
Of course these expenses are reflected in hauling rates and trickle down to the end consumer ultimately affecting retail prices.
I wonder......do they require a license to distribute licenses? And what about a license distributor licensing license? Would that come from the ministry of frivolous licensing?
Wow. It seems like a Monty Python sketch but sadly it's closer to reality.
Relating to the original topic, the "road taxes" here vary from state to state and the method of collection is shoved away from the passenger motorist but piled onto the commercial transportation sector. Freight movers are the ones who get hit with the big bills for infrastructure. The exception (sort of) is with toll bridges and highways. Still the movers of goods foot the higher end of the bill.
Example: The toll for a passenger car to cross the George Washington bridge from NJ to NYC is $8.00 but 5 axle trucks pay $40.00
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is the same except it also includes a fee schedule based also on the weight of the vehicle as well as number of axles which put that vehicle into different classes and thus different toll rates. For comparison purposes: A class 1 vehicle (standard passenger car) going from the PA/NJ border to the PA/OH border would pay $28.00 . A class 7 (tractor trailer weighing 62,001 lbs to 80,000 lbs) pays $151.60. Now get into oversize loads and it gets astronomical! A class 9 (weighing 100,001 lbs and over) would pay $1,124.55!!!!! Add to that the cost of possibly 2 escort vehicles and you see where it can go.
(Rates as per official PA Turnpike rate chart effective 1-2-11 http://www.paturnpike.com/toll/tollmileage.aspx )
The average heavy hauling truck pays in the neighborhood of $14,000.00 in highway taxes each year. Multiply that by the estimated 4 million heavy trucks using the roads and you get an assload of cash.
Of course these expenses are reflected in hauling rates and trickle down to the end consumer ultimately affecting retail prices.
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