But, if the road did not fall apart every few months, how would contractors get any work ? Or you could get the huge semi trailer trucks off the roads and put these loads back on the rails where they should be for the good of man and nation, and quit having these roads pounded to pieces by people who are never around when the tax bill comes due. In the States, many truckers have the sign "This vehicle pays X amount of dollars in road use taxes"-not nearly as much damage as is caused to the roads by too heavy loads and dangerous tires with recaps falling off and hitting other vehicles, as well as loads. I see more and more of this every year, and it irks me enough to write about it on a cycling forum.