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Submitted: Saturday, Feb 01, 2025 at 20:39
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Hugh J2
So the news has it , the aussie auto assosiation and others want to have a travel tax for the distance you drive and the govt to cut back fuel tax. The heavier your vehicle and distance you drive the more fuel it uses and the more it damages the roads.
So if you are out bush doing dirt roads of any kind you still pay road tax ... and i imagine you tow big vans boats and trailers you could get even taxed then . Smile ur on seatbelt cam
Reply By: IvanTheTerrible - Saturday, Feb 01, 2025 at 22:05
Saturday, Feb 01, 2025 at 22:05
Be a nightmare to enforce. Never been done before and would cost a fortune. Also a link to the new story would be great because without that it's just bullshit
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Follow Up By: IvanTheTerrible - Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 12:17
Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 12:17
The Australian Automotive Dealers Association is not a motoring organisation, it is a dealers organisation and the Southcoast Register is a small town news paper. Seems weird. I'd be more concerned if it was on a mainstream news channel
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Follow Up By: Member - Bigfish - Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 12:33
Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 12:33
I,d believe it if Fox News reported it...excuse me now I,m off to feed my unicorn...
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Reply By: Kazza055 - Saturday, Feb 01, 2025 at 22:25
Saturday, Feb 01, 2025 at 22:25
Doesn't NZ have a system like that?
It is bound to happen to tax the EV's.
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Follow Up By: qldcamper - Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 07:40
Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 07:40
What about the scores of E bikes and E scooters out there causing accidents and pushing up everyone's insurance costs and filling hospital emergency wards for free.
They are in every sense a motor vehicle.
They should be identifiable, endless vids from home security systems of arseholes riding silently around people's property looking for sellable stuff to steal. Yet another very powerful tool for criminals.
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Follow Up By: Gbc.. - Monday, Feb 03, 2025 at 05:57
Monday, Feb 03, 2025 at 05:57
Yes, in NZ it’s user pays. Rego and road tax all paid for by fuel excise. Primary producers get a better deal on their diesel. Perfect sliding scale. Don’t want to pay too much, don’t drive a lot and get a fuel efficient car.
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Follow Up By: Member - Bigfish - Saturday, Feb 22, 2025 at 16:07
Saturday, Feb 22, 2025 at 16:07
Qldcamper. Agree..if only there was a union for thieves, burglars, break and enter trash that got together and only targetted politicians , judges and bleeding heart snowflakes....Things would improve over night....
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Reply By: Batt's - Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 16:46
Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 16:46
So 4wd's must be getting up around the weight of a semi to cause road damage if not what idiot could prove they cause damage.
Poorly prepared roads that are commonly built in Aus need to be addressed before other garbage.
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Follow Up By: Nomadic Navara - Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 22:08
Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 22:08
All vehicles cause "damage" to the roads. They do it in some sort of relativity to thedir size. Many years back, I remember an engineer stating that 40 Mini Minors have the same effect as one 5 ton truck.
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Follow Up By: Batt's - Tuesday, Feb 04, 2025 at 00:58
Tuesday, Feb 04, 2025 at 00:58
That's because they don't care about building roads properly they rush cut corners then spend the next 20yrs repairing it. Back in the 80's and 90's they couldn't even build a decent free way between
Newcastle and
Sydney they were doing massive repairs in no time.
They still run cars and trucks on some of the old cobbled stone roads in the UK that were designed for horse and carts go figure.
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Follow Up By: 12HT75 - Tuesday, Feb 04, 2025 at 13:08
Tuesday, Feb 04, 2025 at 13:08
Quote @Batt's "That's because they don't care about building roads properly they rush cut corners then spend the next 20yrs repairing it. "
That is for sure, only have to look at the new sections of the Great Northern Hwy recently been constructed around
New Norcia, potholes and slumping already. Probably not helped by the huge number of massive oversize loads using it.
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Reply By: Garry L - Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 19:08
Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 19:08
I'm surprised nobody on here has had a whinge about the spelling yet :)
Cheers
Gazz
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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 19:40
Sunday, Feb 02, 2025 at 19:40
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I'm not saying a word. The bruises are still healing!
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Follow Up By: Michael H9 - Friday, Feb 07, 2025 at 09:45
Friday, Feb 07, 2025 at 09:45
I was too busy wondering if Hugh J's last name was Jarse..(not meant as an insult BTW).
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