A new tax in the state of Connecticut is expected to be signed this week that states by January 2023, heavy trucks will be taxed up to 17.5 cents per mile that use the roadways in the state.
Trucks will be required to pay this in addition to federal tax fees, and the estimated revenue gained from this tax (which is expected to be $90 million annually), would go toward repairing roads and bridges.
It has been met with overall negative reviews.
Many legislatures fear it will raise the costs of living like food, heating oil, and gasoline. Joseph Sculley, the president of the Motor Transport Association of Connecticut, has said that it will only cause a financial burden on in-state trucking companies and other out of state companies will simply avoid Connecticut altogether.
He has also gone on to tell the legislature that 20 states who have tried this kind of tax have failed implementing it.
This tax could put local trucking companies out of business, as some have reported that it could cost them upwards of $200,000 per year.
Some states have already enacted this kind of tax according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which vary between a miles-traveled tax and a weight tax.
The proposal for Connecticut will tax trucks by the weight, anywhere from 2.5 cents (trucks who weigh 26-28k pounds) to the 17.5 cents (80k pounds and over).
Enforcement will be a problem. Will have to build hundreds of scale houses, cameras a central command center to monitor vehicles. Drivers will have to show proof of a weighted truck or empty. Logistical nightmare.
I think your taking the weight too literally, it’s probably an axle thing just like everywhere else.
As Truck Drivers we do one of two things…
1. We just outright refuse to go into the state of Connecticut. – or –
2. We devise a legal system of billing the company responsible for shipping (ie; Broker, or End Customer) the proposed tax plus an Administrative Cost associated with traversing the state. One way or the other the poeple of Connecticut are the losers. Not me an Owner of a Truck.
What did the costs data show for the “other” states that implemented the additional tax?
NOT if the money goes into their GENERAL FUNDS…:(
Refuse to go
Or
Raise the rates on all loads going into or thru the State of Connecticut. The people of the state are about to be in for a rude awaking come purchase time.
Gas, groceries, lumber, you name it. All of their stuff has just gone up because of the “smart” legislator’s of Connecticut.
If this comment gets out to people of Connecticut just let yourself be forewarned of the impending costs coming to your neck of the woods.