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Trucks Barred * Canada - From Troubled Bridges
Quebec closes 135 overpasses to extra-heavy trucks
Montreal,QUE.CAN -The Globe and Mail, by TU THANH HA -July 19, 2007: -- It is said to be a preventive step that won't affect most motorists. It won't even affect many truck drivers... But the release yesterday of a list of 135 Quebec overpasses that extra-heavy trucks can't use in coming weeks is the latest aftershock of the collapse of a highway overpass that killed five people... Since then, a public inquiry has raised troubling questions about Transport Quebec's ability to maintain and inspect the province's overpasses... The 135 places on the list – from one in downtown Montreal to others in remote places like St-Ambroise-de-Kildare – are closed to overloaded trucks until they can be inspected...
* Que truckers say bridge ban will hike price of goods - List of affected structures
Montreal,QUE.CAN - CTV News/Today's Trucking -July 20, 2007: -- The Quebec government's decision this week to ban heavier loads on 135 provincial overpasses will increase delivery times and thereby the cost of transportation, warn members of the Quebec Trucking Association... Marc Kummer of FLS Transportation said the ban on heavy trucks would push loads off the highways and onto city streets -- increasing route miles and also exposing heavy trucks to urban and residential areas...
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