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LEGISLATIONS * USA - To keep bigger, heavier trucks off roads
Member of Congress join truck crash victims and Safety Advocates to support
Washington,D.C.,USA -PolitickerNJ, by Michael Pagan -1 April 2009: -- U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA-3) today joined safety advocates to announce legislation to keep bigger, heavier trucks off roads. The bill would extend the current limit of 80,000 pounds and maximum length of 53 feet for tractor trailer trucks on interstate highways to the National Highway System, which would improve safety and prevent excessive strain on the nation's roads, tunnels and bridges... The bill, The Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act of 2009, would extend the current weight limit and freeze on triple-trailers to the entire 160,000-mile National Highway System (NHS), while still allowing certain exemptions, including for firefighting equipment. The NHS includes both interstate highways and smaller national highways. Most truck size and weight restrictions (53-foot length maximum and 80,000-pound weight maximum) already apply to the 44,000-mile Interstate Highway System. The bill would extend certain restrictions to the much bigger 160,000-mile National Highway System (NHS)... The bill would also close loopholes that allow the operation of overweight trucks and would establish an enforcement program to ensure accountability...
* OOIDA debunks push for bigger, heavier trucks
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Jami Jones -April 1, 2009: -- Propaganda advocating an increase in the size and weights of trucks allowed on the nation’s highways took a huge blow today when the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association spoke out against the effort at a press conference in Washington, DC... Todd Spencer, OOIDA executive vice president, addressed reporters at a press conference held at the U.S. Capitol by federal lawmakers and various organizations who spoke out against increasing the size and weights of trucks... Given the state of the nation’s infrastructure, increasing the size and weights of trucks on the highways is a bad idea, to say the least, according to Spencer...
* Ohio Set to Lift Truck Speed Limits
OH,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -1 April 2009: -- Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, is expected to sign a bill April 1 that would raise the state speed limit for trucks on state highways from 55 mph to 65 mph... Ohio is one of 11 states that set different speed limits for trucks and cars on highways. That would end when Strickland signs the $10 billion two-year transportation budget... The bill also serves as a vehicle for $1.9 billion in federal stimulus spending. According to the Toledo Blade, that includes $15 million for the Toledo Shipyard...
OPINION * Battle lines drawn over truck size and weight modernization
Washington,DC,USA -Logistics Management,by John D. Schulz -2 April 2009: -- The battle lines over truck size and weight modernization—trucking productivity has been stalled since the early 1990s—are as clear as a railroad track going through the middle of a town... On one side are shippers, most of the trucking industry and its main lobbying group, the American Trucking Associations. They have some support in Congress, but also some vociferous and powerful opponents in both the Senate and House... On the other side are the railroads, representatives for the 1 million or so independent owner-operators, the Teamsters union and highway safety advocates. This ad hoc coalition also has supporters in Washington who have been successful in beating back any changes in truck productivity the past two decades... Both sides have their eyes firmly fixed on the prize. That would be insertion of language either allowing or prohibiting changing the limits on truck weights—currently 80,000 pounds with a limit of 20,000 pounds per axle—in the must-pass legislation funding the federal-aid highway program. That law expires Sept. 30...
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