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Trucks Weight * USA - Pilot Project Moves Forward In Senate
Trucks weighing up to 100,000 pounds to operate the full length of the interstate highway system in the state
Maine,USA -MPBN -30 July 2009: -- A Senate Appropriations sub-committee has given approval to a pilot project proposed by Maine’s Congressional delegation allowing trucks weighing up to 100,000 pounds to operate the full length of the interstate highway system in the state... Under the proposal, truckers with the loads weighing above 80,000 pounds will be able to use all of the interstate instead of being required to leave the interstate north of Augusta for a year to allow a study to see if allowing the greater weight poses a safety issue... The measure is part of an appropriations bill and faces further votes in the full Senate and the House...* Hundreds of angry truckers protest Bossier law
Shreveport,LOU,USA -Shreveport Times, by Drew Pierson -July 30, 2009: -- Hundreds of angry truckers descended on a somewhat impromptu Bossier Police Jury meeting Wednesday in Benton to express their displeasure with a recently enacted parish law against overweight trucks... Bossier Parish's commercial vehicle enforcement unit consists of only one enforcement officer who has authority to drive throughout the parish, pull over trucks he suspects of being overweight and weighing them. The parish spend months notifying local companies of the program, which began July 20... But the truckers at Wednesday's meeting said many of their trucks routinely weigh more than the state's and parish's maximum load limit, which is 88,000 pounds, because of the type of equipment they haul... The cost of a permit from the parish in addition to one from the state, plus the concern that other parishes soon might start enforcing programs of their own, is too much, said Glenn Beaty, head of Beaty Logging Co... The parish reports having lost more than $8 million, four bridges and countless hours trying to repair damage in only the past three or four years from overweight trucks, particularly saltwater trucks, which are needed for the "fracking" process used to extract natural gas from the shale. Parish staffers have heard reports of saltwater trucks weighing as much as 160,000 pounds driving on local roads... To date, no tickets have been issued by Bossier...Labels: higher trucks weight
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