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HEAVIER TRUCKS * USA - Truck CrashVictims Warn Motorists about Big Rig Amendment
Federal Appropriations Bill: Allowing Dramatic Truck Size & Weight Increases on Maine and Vermont Interstate Highways and Bridges
Arlington,VA,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -Dec. 10, 2009: -- Truck crash victims and survivors today issued a warning to New England motorists regarding the insertion of an amendment to the federal transportation appropriations bill that will allow 108,000 to 120,000-pound tractor-trailers to operate on interstate roads and bridges in Vermont and 100,000-pound trucks on all Maine Interstate highways. The current Vermont standard for truck weights is 80,000 pounds gross weight, as established by federal law... Last night, U.S. House and Senate conferees to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) Appropriations legislation agreed to a FY 2010 funding bill that authorizes a one-year pilot program permitting trucks on all of Maine's interstate highways to exceed federal law by 20,000 pounds and by even larger margins - up to an additional 40,000 pounds - on Vermont's interstate highways. In fact, Maine will allow trucks under a wide range of special permits to far exceed even 100,000 pounds gross weight...
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