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This would probably only work in urban areas where you can justify the infrastructure cost. In low-traffic rural areas the gas tax is much more efficient.

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If such a system were rolled out state- or nation- wide infrastructure costs would fall. If rural roads were only enrolled once major upgrade/repair work was done, it would probably constitute a small portion of the project cost.

That's true. Really it would turn this into a last-mile problem where rural communities that didn't have the land value to justify big infrastructure projects would have terrible roads.

So knowing how the discourse is around here, there will likely be ardent support and the rural people can just be told to pound sand and move to civilization.

Snark aside, it makes more sense just to add an additional tax to semis during the licensing process to go to road maintenance. There's already way too much tracking going on as it is, and then there's the fun of having your plates stolen or whatever getting you stuck with another bill to contest.

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