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Truck Size and Weights * USA - Changes gaining “buoyancy” on Capitol Hill
Las Vegas,NV,USA -Logistics Management, by John D. Schulz -October 16, 2007: -- Shippers could be enjoying as much as $50 billion in savings through greater productivity from their motor carriers if longer and heavier trucks are allowed when Congress crafts the next federal-aid highway bill in 2009... Miles Mittelstadt, associate general counsel of Schneider National, the nation’s second-largest truckload carrier, said the long-term trend in logistical savings has reversed... Still, longer and heavier trucks would not come without costs. Larger vehicles would cost the public about $6 billion per year in improvements in bridges, intersections and pavement improvements. That amounts to a “tax” of about 4 cents per mile for carriers. That would be offset somewhat by alleviating congestion...
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