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INFRASTRUCTURE * USA - Oklahoma to get new tractor-trailer truck weigh stations
Tulsa,OK,USA -The Tulsa World, by D.R. STEWART -12 Sept 2010: -- In August 2008, APAC-Oklahoma Inc., the low bidder selected by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, began the $4.3 million resurfacing of eight miles of Interstate 244 in Tulsa... The I-244 project addressed a heavily traveled highway that rattled vehicles with a roadway that was beginning to resemble a washboard, state officials and residents said... The job, which took 70 days, involved repaving three eastbound and three westbound lanes between I-244's junction with U.S. 75 just north of downtown Tulsa and I-244's split with Interstate 44 in east Tulsa... But two years after the resurfacing was completed, I-244 is reverting to its previous state, with numerous ruts and potholes forming in the asphalt roadway... It is quite likely, industry and state officials say, that I-244 is traveled by more than a few overweight trucks, which are taking a toll on highways, streets and bridges throughout Oklahoma, industry officials say... 
* Oklahoma overweight truck citations, 5,000 pounds and above, 2006-10- 1 July/09 to 30 June/10 .......... 3,568
- 1 July/08 to 30 June/09 ......... 2,652
(Photo by MICHAEL WYKE / Tulsa World - Michael Frerer, a Commercial Vehicle Enforcement supervisor with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, operates the scales at the weigh station three miles inside the Missouri state line near Joplin on Sept. 7. The monitor in the upper left shows the information gathered 1¾ miles earlier on the highway for trucks that passed under a compliance reader arm, which is part of the PrePass automated transponder system. The system allows commercial vehicles equipped with the readers the ability to bypass weigh stations. It's a system similar to a PikePass reader that is tied into a database that notifies and documents for the weigh station personnel all the relevant information such as weight, cargo and destination)
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