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* USA - Lowering trucks weights may not help roads
Detroit,MI,USA -The Detroit Free Press, by MATT HELMS -March 4, 2007: -- Folks around here are quick to single out Michigan’s heaviest-in-the-nation truck limits for the state’s battered pavement... Lowering trucks weights may not held roads... Problem is, officials in and out of the trucking and road industries tell me there’s no conclusive evidence that lowering weights would make much of a difference. They say Michigan’s major roads are built to handle heavier loads than other states, and weather and chronic roadwork underfunding are bigger reasons behind our poor roads... I wrote recently about efforts to raise the state’s gas tax by up to 9 cents a gallon and heard from dozens of readers who said they’d grudgingly consider paying more – but only if Michigan would ban 82-ton monster big rigs...
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