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08 Mar 2024, 03:02
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Lin: Overloaded long-haul trucks—ones exceeding legally mandated weight limitations—pose safety risks and wear down roads and bridges. To discourage overloading, we must impose harsher penalties, because rising fuel costs and competition from a rebounding railway-freight industry have increased the incentive for truckers to cheat. Typically, truck drivers elude detection by running at night when weigh stations are closed.
Which of the following would, if true, provide the most support for Lin’s recommendation?
A. As the weight of a loaded truck increases, the fine for overloading should increase correspondingly.
B. Repairs to road surfaces are in a large percentage of cases funded through taxes on fuel.
C. Road surfaces are designed to withstand at least the legally mandated weight limitations for long-haul trucks.
D. The costs to a trucking company from adding additional trucks and drivers are currently greater than are those from fines for overloading.
E. In areas where weigh stations are kept open at night, the number of overloaded trucks detected at night is similar to the number detected during the day.
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Which of the following would, if true, provide the most support for Lin’s recommendation?
A. As the weight of a loaded truck increases, the fine for overloading should increase correspondingly.
B. Repairs to road surfaces are in a large percentage of cases funded through taxes on fuel.
C. Road surfaces are designed to withstand at least the legally mandated weight limitations for long-haul trucks.
D. The costs to a trucking company from adding additional trucks and drivers are currently greater than are those from fines for overloading.
E. In areas where weigh stations are kept open at night, the number of overloaded trucks detected at night is similar to the number detected during the day.
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08 Mar 2024, 06:48
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I was down to A & D. Rest were pretty easy to eliminate. (A) seemed off, hence chose (D)
Below is my understanding. I would like some help to know, whether my reasons are correct?
Premise:
rising fuel costs and competition from a rebounding railway-freight industry have increased the incentive for truckers to cheat.
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truck drivers elude detection by running at night when weigh stations are closed.
Conclusion:
To discourage overloading, we must impose harsher penalties
Strike 2: Conclusion says ''harsher penalties'', on the other hand (A) says proportionate penalty.
They are not the same, i think.
Below is my understanding. I would like some help to know, whether my reasons are correct?
Premise:
rising fuel costs and competition from a rebounding railway-freight industry have increased the incentive for truckers to cheat.
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truck drivers elude detection by running at night when weigh stations are closed.
Conclusion:
To discourage overloading, we must impose harsher penalties
Quote:
Strike 1: (A) seemed bit off because of the weak language ''should''.
Strike 2: Conclusion says ''harsher penalties'', on the other hand (A) says proportionate penalty.
They are not the same, i think.
Quote:
If ''Cost of adding additional trucks + hiring new driver'' >> ''Paying fines'' then trucking company will have incentive paying fines. Hence, this option indicates that higher penalties than the current ones can push the trucking companies to hire new drivers and trucks, and consequently stop overloading the trucks.
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08 Mar 2024, 03:08
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Hi, is the official answer to this question D? Thanks
