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		nightpool on July 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes It's not true in the EU either, plenty of countries have truck and trailer specific tolls. The average truck on the German autobahn, for example, pays €0.15 per kilometre.

Retric on July 5, 2022 | [–]

Which roughly covers the actual damage large trucks do per km traveled and in no way covers construction costs.

tpm on July 5, 2022 | [–]

More or less all EU members should charge freight road transport fees on highways and sometimes other roads too.

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