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Concerns About Safety * USA - Cost Fuel Debate Over Heavy Trucks
Augusta,Mai,USA -The Bangor Daily News, by George Chappell -February 07, 2008: -- ... The debate over heavy tractor-trailers on Maine’s 8,684 miles of state roads is not new, but it has taken on new urgency since Gov. John Baldacci signed an emergency bill Jan. 23 to increase gross weights of logging trucks from 100,000 pounds to 105,000 pounds... The temporary increase, which is intended to help ease truckers’ rising costs of operation, concerns a coalition of highway safety advocates including Joan Claybrook, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Public Citizen... (Photo by Bridget Brown/Bangor Daily News - A log truck heads west on Hammond Street after turning from Union Street in Bangor on Friday. Gov. John Baldacci signed an emergency bill Jan. 23 which increased weight limits from 100,000 pounds to 105,000 pounds for six-axle trucks until April 1 to ease the strain of high disel-fuel prices. Some transportation experts say this 5 percent weight increase translates to a 35 to 40 percent increase in damage to the road)Labels: fuel costs troubles
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