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Just put the extra $30.00 on the registration fee, why would you put this on the insurance company to collect. Unless truckers are going into Southern Boston or the Cape Cod area why would they bother to come through RI when they can take 395 through Connecticut and bypass RI altogether? The only trucks that will be paying the tax are ones dropping cargo in RI, which means that the cost will just be passed on to RI Citizens again.

Fuel tax lower it for everyone, have neighboring state citizens fuel up here. Make less per gallon but you would sell more gallons. While talking taxes lower them all, same reason, make less per item sell more items. Look at the bootleg cigarette problem in RI. We pay for a task force to stop it. Lower the tax get rid of the task force let the other states worry about bootlegging into their state.

As for truck stops and rest areas RI spent millions on a rest area that had banker's hours and closed it. The brilliant bureaucrats put the thing past where people coming from the south might want to exit to avail themselves of the beaches and coastline. The other rest area we have is on 295 on the way out of the State. We no welcome areas open and don't have any we can open south bound.

Make rest/service/information (see New Jersey and Connecticut) areas that way people fuel up cars, themselves and rest a bit even on their way through. Who knows with a little welcoming information they may stop and stay a bit on their way back.