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Obama Administration * USA - Asks to Make Truck Weight Increase Permanent
Washington,DC,USA -TruckingInfo -20 Sept 2010: -- The Obama Administration has included a provision in the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution that formally asks Congress make permanent two pilot programs that give heavier, six-axle trucks full access to interstate highways in Maine and Vermont... In its message to Congress, the administration credited the pilot programs, set to expire in December,- with having improved safety and productivity on Maine and Vermont highways... Coalition for Transportation Productivity Executive supports federal legislation called the Safe and Efficient Transportation Act (SETA) because it would extend this same opportunity to all states... SETA would give each state the option to raise interstate weight limits for six-axle, higher productivity trucks... (Photo: A provision that up the weight limits for big rigs in Maine and Vermont)* White House Backs Bigger Trucks in Maine, Vermont. Proposal for state pilot projects angers opponents of 100,000-pound trucks
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, William B. Cassidy -Sep 20, 2010: -- The White House is drawing fire from highway safety advocates for its support of pilot projects permitting heavier trucks on interstate highways in two states... The tests, launched this year, allow 100,000-pound rigs on interstates in Maine and Vermont, which both have logging industries that use heavy haul equipment... But 100,000-pound trucks would have an outsized impact on Interstate highways, damaging roads and bridges, the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks said... Extending the pilot projects in Maine and Vermont would undermine proposed investment in roads and rails, said Curtis Sloan, policy director for CABT... "If the administration is serious about addressing the nation's infrastructure problems, it cannot support allowing bigger trucks on federal highways," he said...
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