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HEAVY TRUCKS * USA
* DC - House Panel Votes to Delay Expansion of 97,000-Pound Trucks
Washington,DC,USA -Bloomberg Businessweek, by Carol Wolf/Andrea Snyder/Bernard Kohn -February 2, 2012: -- A House panel voted to stop a measure written by its own chairman to allow 97,000-pound trucks on U.S. interstate highways and expand use of double- and triple- trailers in states that now allow them... The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today voted 33-22 to delay any expansion in use of trucks weighing more than 80,000 pounds for three years, so the U.S. Transportation Department can study the potential effect on highway safety, roads and bridges... Bigger rigs may need the length of two football fields to stop, Tom Bracken, a lieutenant with the Delaware State Police, said yesterday at a news conference in Washington...
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