Comments on: 3 things I love about truckers http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/3-things-i-love-about-truckers/ Standing Just Where We Are Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:22:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Ashe http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/3-things-i-love-about-truckers/comment-page-1/#comment-13340 Robert Ashe Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:49:41 +0000 http://www.justice.net.nz/action/3-things-i-love-about-truckers/#comment-13340 Well said. If we're going to use markets to send the right signals, then it's about time we got the costs of moving freight by trucks right. A 2005 Ministry of Transport study into this showed that trucks are currently paying only 56% of their costs to the economy, while the comparative figure for rail freight was 82%. The new increases in road user charges for trucks closes this unfair gap by a small fraction...but not enough to make it more economical to send a container from Auckland to Wellington by truck rather than train. Crazy. [Source for stats: http://www.transport.govt.nz/assets/Images/NewFolder-2/Overview-for-pdf.pdf] Well said. If we’re going to use markets to send the right signals, then it’s about time we got the costs of moving freight by trucks right. A 2005 Ministry of Transport study into this showed that trucks are currently paying only 56% of their costs to the economy, while the comparative figure for rail freight was 82%. The new increases in road user charges for trucks closes this unfair gap by a small fraction…but not enough to make it more economical to send a container from Auckland to Wellington by truck rather than train. Crazy.

[Source for stats: http://www.transport.govt.nz/assets/Images/NewFolder-2/Overview-for-pdf.pdf

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[...] – are under attack for inflating food prices, destroying natural habitat, depleting water supplies and increasing pollution. One-fourth of the U.S. corn crop now goes to ethanol, and corn prices are so high that ethanol producers are [...]…

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