Drivers Pay Secret Road Tax in $15 Billion for Car Repair
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Gil Giro doesn’t need a license plate to tell where a car is from -- he just looks underneath the chassis.
“Every time we see a car that comes in from the district, you can see that its suspension is torn up,” said Giro, the owner of Gili’s Automotive in Rockville, Maryland, outside Washington. “It’s almost like the vehicle has been driven off-road.”