▲ | Palomides 7 months ago | |||||||
it's widely accepted that trucks cause the majority of road wear, considering the tire is the softer part in contact there, it seems pretty plausible I don't have a citation to point to, though! edit: there are roughly 100x registered passenger cars in the US as semis | ||||||||
▲ | SideQuark 7 months ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Well, given a semi only averages 8x the miles of a car per year, your initial claim is wrong. | ||||||||
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▲ | Aurornis 7 months ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Road wear depends on weight. Semi truck tires have hard, slow-wearing compounds. |