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Study - USA - Overweight trucks cause $130 million a year in damage
Charlotte,NC,USA -The Dispacht Charlotte Observer/AP -Oct 07. 2005: -- Damage from overweight trucks cost North Carolina taxpayers nearly $130 million a year, according to a study by the state Department of Transportation... The study prepared by Judith Corley-Lay, the head of DOT's Pavement Management Unit, is the department's first attempt to see how much trucks that exceed the 80,000-pound limit cost in additional road maintenance. It relied on data gathered by the DOT for federal pavement studies... Gov. Mike Easley encouraged him to reduce damage caused by overweight trucks. He said Thursday he would work with lawmakers to eliminate some exemptions that allow overweight trucks to legally travel the roads...
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