>>Why should owners of old vehicles not pay for using the road? If they only do a relatively few miles a year they could pay a reduced rate
1. It's an incentive to preserve old cars in use. Far more ecological than making new ones.
2. As you imply, old cars invariably do many fewer miles than average (or die quickly).
Part of the reason for getting rid of my 30 year old Land Rover was that it was costing me about 40p a mile in VED to use it for going to the tip and running things around for local events. I certainly wasn't wearing the roads out with it.
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