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Trucks are destroying our roads and not picking up the repair cost

  • Written by Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
imageA fully loaded semitrailer can cause 10,000 times more damage to roads than a family car. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts

It’s high time Australia changed its current road user charges for trucks. The shortfall between the charges for heavy vehicles and the money spent on things like road system maintenance, construction costs, road crashes...

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