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Longer Combination Vehicles * USA - Fight brewing over LCV study
Washington,DC,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -May 15, 2008: -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is weighing in against efforts by trucking interests to re-examine the raising of size and weight limits for commercial trucks... But trucking interest groups don’t see it that way. For example, the National Private Truck Council (NPTC) last month approved an informal technical proposal to conduct a study on the benefits of larger trucks for those businesses operating private fleets, to be conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)... Gary Petty, president & CEO, added that NPTC is looking for six carriers to participate in its longer combination vehicles (LCV) study and hopes to start it sometime this spring and wrap it up in September... He noted that the parameters of the study would focus on over-the-road operating costs, cargo transported, miles traveled and safety performance. It will also include a measure of fuel use, emissions output and truck trips that are required to fulfill the individual companies’ annual transportation responsibilities, with the aim to boost truck efficiency and thus reduce the number of trucks on the road... Another trucking group, called Americans for Safe and Efficient Transportation, is lobbying Congress this week for a pilot program to let bigger trucks on the road in five, maybe six states: Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Georgia and possibly Texas... Today, some form of LCV is currently allowed on designated routes in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Oversize/overweight vehicles may be allowed by local jurisdictions in California for certain vehicles and loads... According to research by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) there are advantages and disadvantages to using LCVs...
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