New Connecticut Highway Use Tax

.73 divided by 6 miles per gallon is .12 cpm.
.49 divided by 6 is is .08 + .10 is 18 cpm.
So they have effectively raised the fuel tax on trucks only. But for me it’s now .49 divided by 4.5 = .108 + .17 which is .278 cpm. Loaded or empty.

 

Because they can, and the average CT consumer is not as smart as @Ruthless and still thinks someone else is paying the tax, so they support it.

 

And they are correct. We pay it.

 

I’m wondering if OOIDA is gonna back you guys up when you all go protest at CT. capital.

 

Unless you're a charity, you tender the payment but the cost is recovered as an increase in your rate, or you don't serve CT. Likewise, the place you deliver to passes on the increased transport cost to their customer, and so on. If you don't go to CT, that reduces available capacity, which also increases rates into the area that consumers pay for.

The consumers of the products you haul are the ones paying that tax. They lose.

 

I say dump a load of chep pallets on their door step. Politicians will probably read it as cheap anyway.

 

Got my letter the other day too......decisions. I rarely roll through CT.

 

Just think how much it cost to mail out all those letters….

 

I must follow the market, I don't have such choices. They called it supply and demand.
The prices in Connecticut won't change because this like they didn't change in Illinois for example.

 

You always have a choice.

The average this new tax is going to add to my costs is about $10 for a trip thru CT on the way to Boston for example. Then another $10 coming back. Truth be told it's a rounding error.

That said, it's a cumulative effect along with fuel costs, tolls, inflation, and everything else New England charges extra for. Nobody will ever put a line item on their invoice for that tax, but if you aren't getting it in your line haul rate somehow, why would you do it?