Spokane Transportation Director Jon Snyder hopes to close fee loophole for big trucks

A loophole in Washington law lets larger vehicles avoid paying a fee to help improve roads.

Some Spokane officials want to change that to keep the city from missing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Every time you register a vehicle or update your car tabs, you probably pay a Transportation Benefit District, or TBD, fee. Those dollars help pay for road improvements.

But even though the numbers of people and cars in Spokane are going up, TBD revenue isn’t. That could be blamed on people not updating car tabs, but Spokane Director of Transportation and Sustainability Jon Snyder thinks something else is going on.

"I think we’ve found something that’s bigger than noncompliance," he said. "And that

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