Fuel tax plus axle tax.
That way a car or a small van pays on the basis of fuel used whereas a larger vehicle pays more to cover the additional road space it occupies.
What I would like to see are caravans and trailers being subjected to road tax, compulsory third party insurance, and annual MOT’s.
I would also like to see the driving licence extended to include a class that applied to towing trailers and caravans.
The dammned things get driven by idiots, especially around my neck of the woods, and some are in a dreadful condition, get driven in the most selfish and at times stupid manner, and generally at best get in the way.
Similarly push bikes. Licence and tax if used outside a 30mph zone and compulsory third party insurance say I.
The number of times that I’ve been held up in a line of traffic simply because some sweaty tw@ on a bike has been poodling along at HIS pace creating no end of problems for those behind him is amazing.
“They’re so GREEN” these Lycra clad idiots joyfully come out with, yet they totally fail to realise much less acknowledge that whilst they’re polluting by sight (and later by smell) they are also CAUSING a hell of a lot of excess pollution as a result of the hold up’s they cause.
Then there’s horses.
The only four legged animal that you will see on the highways with a sex organ positioned in the middle of its back.
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I am an old man. I have eaten much salt.
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