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Local trucker warns TAC that mileage charging risks high collection costs and bureaucracy
Summary
A Fresno trucking company president told the TAC that mileage‑based charging systems can be administratively costly and urged policymakers to consider simpler alternatives and strong fiscal discipline.
Tim Fortier, president of Commercial Transfer, a Fresno trucking firm, addressed the Road Charge Technical Advisory Committee during public comment on May 29 and urged caution about administrative complexity and collection costs for any mileage‑based system.
Fortier said his company’s experience with an Oregon system showed collection and auditing costs can be material and that tracking and billing large numbers of individual users would create an administrative burden. "This state does not need another bureaucracy to monitor 10,000,000 cars in California," Fortier said. He added that the gas tax system collects at pump and is easier to administer than a system that requires billing millions of motorists.
Fortier proposed simpler alternatives for non‑gasoline vehicles — for example, a DMV flag and an added assessment on registration for electric vehicles — and stressed the need for political will and fiscal discipline to keep revenue dedicated to road maintenance.
The committee thanked Fortier for the input and noted staff and consultants would consider collection costs and administrative burdens in pilot design and subsequent cost estimates.
