Road Funds Part 6 - OReGO

We have been looking at way to fund the roads and bridges. This discussion was started because of    OR e GO   the program that Oregon is tr...

Traveling Down the OReGO Trail

I Signed Up For OReGO! I've been critical of the Oregon mileage tax plan called ORe GO . While I understand the need for road funds, th...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Dead Battery & Phantom Trips

This is another entry in my journey with the Oregon vehicle mileage program called ORe GO . As I reported here , I have been having battery ...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Jumpy GPS Response

I recently posted a blog entry where I showed that the route shown by the ORe GO  program is not 100% accurate .  Bad route data I asked the...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Dead Battery & Phantom Trips (Pt2)

As reported earlier , the ORe GO  program is reporting that my battery Voltage is low. It was low, but I installed a new battery (and termin...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Jumpy GPS

ORe GO  is the new mileage tax program that is currently under test in Oregon. I signed up to experience the program and see how it works (a...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Dead Battery

<click, click, nothing> <click, click, nothing> Dead battery. More on that soon.  It has been awhile since I wrote about my OR e...

Traveling The OReGO Trail - First Trip

As mentioned in an earlier posts, I've signed up for the ORe GO program to see firsthand how the program works. The vehicle I signed up ...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Saddle Up!

As I mentioned here , I signed up for ORe GO . Part of the program a device plugs into the vehicle's OBD II port to track the vehicle a...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Big Trip

We packed up the pop-up camper and the SUV and we hit the road for a long weekend at the lake in the hot, high desert of central Oregon. Thi...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Dead Battery Response

I reported here that I was having some trouble with my car battery since joining the ORe GO program. To be fair, this is an old vehicle, I...

OReGO Has No Wings

Willamette Week and Fox News don't agree on much. The Oregon Department of Transportation has managed to create something that the liber...

EVs Soon Welcome to Oregon Mileage Tax

One of my fellow EV drivers received an invitation to the Oregon Mileage Tax program. When he explained that the only vehicle that he owned ...

My OReGO Trail Adventure

The story of my experience in the Oregon vehicle mileage tax experiment. Traveling the ORe GO  Trail: July 19, 2015 - Signing Up - Why? July...

Road Funds - Is there a perfect solution? Part 1

Construction of bridges and roadways, maintenance of bridges and roadways: paying for our transportation infrastructure is not cheap. Transp...

Traveling the OReGO Trail - Phantom Midnight Driver

Just in time for Halloween, my car has apparently become haunted. I guess that can happen after your  battery dies , LOL. So why do I say th...

Road Funds Part 4 - Vehicle Registration

Welcome to part four of our road funding exploration. Oregon has recently launched OReGO , a vehicle mileage tax. While it is easy to critic...