Highway-user taxation

Paper 1: Some of the fundamental premises are examined and restated of the current theory of highway finance. Paper 2: An estimate is made of the amounts of state highway-user taxes paid by vehicles of different types and general size groups. Paper 3: From a study conducted by the Ford Motor Company in 1950 through cooperation of the owners of 5,591 Ford trucks of 1948-, 1949-, and 1950-year models, a summary of monthly mileage, gross vehicle weight, and gasoline consumption is presented for eight models of single-unit trucks and three models of tractor-semitrailer combinations.