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Larger And Heavier Trucks * USA - American’s Dont Want they On U.S. Highways
Washington,DC,USA -JereBeasleyReport -7 August 2008: -- A new national survey shows that Americans overwhelming oppose efforts by the trucking and shipping industries to relax safety standards and allow longer and heavier trucks on our nation’s highways. The poll results counter a lobbying effort by the trucking and shipping industries to increase the size and weight of trucks in a six state “demonstration project”... The states in the project are Georgia, Maine, Michigan, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. The two industries have been lobbying Congress to increase the load limits for trucks in these states from 80,000 pounds to 97,000 pounds. According to a coalition of safety groups, larger and heavier trucks will mean more deaths and more damage to roads and bridges in this country... There is overwhelming scientific evidence that shows the larger trucks get, the more difficult they are to control, the longer they take to stop, and the more dangerous they are to the motoring public. Today, we are telling the trucking and shipping industries that we don’t need a demolition derby on U.S. highways... The independent survey of a representative sample of U.S. motorists conducted by Lake Research Partners found that 66% oppose changing laws to allow larger trucks carrying heavier loads. More than 80% believe that trucks pulling two or three trailers are not as safe as single-trailer trucks. The survey also found that the strong opposition to bigger trucks transcends political party, gender, age, and region...
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