* New Jersey - Oversize trucks line up to deliver big payloads to N.Y.C.
-- Most nights, oversize trucks line up on Route 80. At 8:30 p.m. they get a special police escort across the bridge. The trucks are usually loaded with construction materials and equipment used to build New York City and the region... Here is an abridged list of really big things that crossed the George Washington Bridge in the past few weeks: A flatbed piled with backyard sheds bound for Long Island. A 30-foot pleasure boat built by Wellcraft of Cadillac, Mich. One-half of a prefabricated house, triangular steel plates resembling the tail wings of an F-15 fighter jet, and a Casagrande B250 XP drilling machine that weighed 82 tons... Those loads were merely oversize, however...
(Photo by VIOREL FLORESCU - Oversize trucks line up on Route 80, at 8:30 p.m.) -- Camden, N.J., USA - North Jersey, by CHRISTOPHER MAAG - OCTOBER 20, 2015
* Wiscosin - Ribble pushes for heavier trucks to be allowed on interstates
-- A Wisconsin congressman has introduced a bill that seeks to increase truck weight limits on interstate highways... According to Republican Rep. Reid Ribble, the SAFE Trucking Act would allow trucks with six axles to carry up to 91,000 pounds nationwide. Ribble said trucks are already carrying more than that on Wisconsin highways and roads. The current interstate limit is 80,000 pounds... "It burdens our county budgets rather than our federal interstate budget and we need to be putting those heavier trucks on the interstate, but they’re not allowed to go on there now," he said... However, Truck Safety Coalition Executive Director John Lannen disagrees. He said injuries and fatalities related to large trucks have gone up in the last four years...
Madison, WIS, USA - Wisconsin Public Radio/The Superior Telegram, by Danielle Kaeding - Oct 20, 2015Labels: overloaded trucks, oversized trucks
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