Finding a solution to the state's road funding problems is one of the highest-profile — and politically tricky — problems lawmakers will consider next year.

Potentially big changes are coming to ODOT’s funding model in the next few years. There are holes that the state can’t patch.

  • @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    2•5 months ago

    Yeah, it probably will be. Which, I think is a decent compromise- I’ve done it for commercial trucks and it’s fine. However commercial vehicles file a quarterly odometer mileage report and pay per mile based on their vehicle weight and axle count. Then trucks paying by WMT get to buy PUC diesel at truck stops that has most of the road tax taken off.
    This is in contrast to the consumer pilot program where drivers plug a computer into their car that tracks the ecu mileage. That tracking is something that is an absolute nonstarter for me- and also not even possible because I don’t even drive cars with an OBDII port they could use lol.

    • Beej JorgensenEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      My motorbike certainly doesn’t have OBD2.

      • @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        Yup. So without a computer tracker, which theyll need to support somehow, they’ll need to have a paper/self report filing system.

        Motorbikes I’d more expect them to just add a flat registration fee and call it good. Motorbikes cause almost zero road maintenance damage.