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HEAVIER TRUCKS * USA - OOIDA battling full-on push for longer ones
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Jami Jones -December 17, 2008: -- The once-dead issue of asking the feds to increasing truck size and weights is heating up in a full-blown battle on Capitol Hill with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association battling the propaganda being pushed by a group of coalitions... Coalitions such as Americans for Safe and Efficient Transportation, Coalition for Transportation Productivity and AgTec are knocking on doors all over Congress trying to sway lawmakers into believing that 97,000-pound, six-axle trucks are the answer to a myriad of problems facing the trucking industry and the nation... The groups are composed of businesses from heavy commodity industries such as the paper, logging and steel industries, just to name a few, and they are in addition to several mega carriers... One of the groups, ASET, is even to the point where they are finalizing potential legislative language they are going to shop by members of Congress in an attempt to get it added to the highway funding reauthorization bill being developed right now... There’s a lengthy list of reasons why opening the door to longer or heavier trucks is a bad idea, Nofziger said. And that’s a list the OOIDA DC staff has been making sure lawmakers are very aware of... With so much focus on the nation’s aging roads system, it seems almost moronic to open the door to heavier trucks that will damage it even further, he pointed out. That’s just the tip of the iceberg of arguments against heavier trucks...
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