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Aug 10, 2015

HEAVIER TRUCKS * USA: New Law in Missouri

* Missouri - Law taking effect this month means heavier trucks on the roads

-- Some trucks are about to get heavier when a new state law goes into effect this month, and that means a higher price tag to maintain the roads beneath them... The maximum weight limit for most vehicles on Missouri highways is 80,000 pounds, but milk-haulers can carry an additional 5,500 pounds... The new law taking effect Aug. 28 extends that surplus to trucks carrying livestock on state roads... It also will allow some log trucks to transport their loads twice as far as current law allows, to within a 200-mile radius... And farmers will be allowed to exceed weight limitations by up to 10 percent during harvests of crops including corn, wheat and rice. The law doesn’t specify harvest start and end dates... The changes are being applauded by agriculture and logging groups, but the Missouri Department of Transportation is worried about the toll of heavier trucks on roads. The added pounds are expected to add at least $100,000 a year in extra wear-and-tear costs to maintain highways and bridges, according to a fiscal analysis done when the new rules were being considered by the Legislature... 
(Photo by Ted Dargan /The Post-Dispatch - Trailers parked: Grain trucks line up at elevators on Hall Street just west of East Grand Avenue in St. Louis)   --  St. Louis, MISS, USA - St. Louis Post Displatch, by Leah Thorseny - August 08, 2015

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