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RULES * USA - State reveals proposed truck regulations for roads
Trenton,NJ,USA -APP.com, by Larry Higgs -January 19, 2008: -- The state Department of Transportation has released the final proposed truck regulations which would ban large tractor-trailers and double-trailers from 11 sections of state highways and 12 parts of county roads in the Shore area... The final regulations released Friday add two more sections of state highway to a list contained in emergency truck regulations put into effect in March 2006... The truck ban replaces 1999 rules which were overturned in federal court in 2006 after being challenged by the trucking industry as being restrictive to commerce. The state appealled unsuccessfully to the U.S. Supreme Court in September 2006... The overturned rules would have prohibited big rigs from using certain county and local roads which are 11 feet wide or less except for local deliveries, and treated interstate trucks differently than those traveling within the state... The original 1999 truck ban came about after a rash of serious accidents involving trucks on smaller state highways. Without the proposed rules or emergency regulations, double-trailers and 102-inch wide trucks could have used any road in the state... The shore area would gain two additional sections of state highway on which big rigs would be banned under the proposed regulations submitted for publication in the New Jersey Register Friday. Overall, the big rigs would be banned from:
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