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Weight-distance truck tools should be the first chapter in the nation’s conversion to a vehicle-miles-traveled tax system, a new study from RAND Corp. said.
Because truck travel already is monitored heavily, trucking would be less resistant to a system that raises privacy concerns in others, the study said. Besides, trucks already are equipped with the global tracking technology that would have to be installed in cars if a VMT tax was adopted, the study said.
The study on VMT was requested by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and prepared for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program of the Transportation Research Board.
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