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Jun 6, 2015

STUDY * USA: No to larger and heavier trucks

* DC - Federal study recommends no changes to truck size and weight

-- The U.S. DOT’s Federal Highway Administration believes there’s no need to increase current truck size and weight limits on America’s highways. The administration, in technical reports issued Friday, June 5, says too many gaps exist in current data about safety and other factors to recommend any changes to current limits. OOIDA leadership is pleased with the results... The technical reports are part of the Federal Highway Administration’s Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Limits Study ordered by Congress as part of the 2012 highway bill. The technical reports have been completed, but must be peer-reviewed before the agency delivers a final report to Congress... Lawmakers periodically face lobbying efforts by large shippers and carriers to increase the size and weight of trucks on the nation’s highways. Those efforts face significant pushback from small-business truckers and various other groups including safety groups... Congress ordered the study on the effects of truck sizes and weights to make determinations about highway safety, crash rates, road and bridge conditions, freight patterns and the economy... The study pulls together and analyzes existing data comparing trucks that operate within federal guidelines and trucks that operate in excess of federal guidelines by permit or state allowances. The study also ropes in stakeholder input, including from OOIDA and its membership, about how a potential increase in truck size and weight would affect small businesses, highway safety and the nation’s infrastructure... 
(Photo: Weigh Stations: New feature in American Truck. Drivers cruising across American highways might occasionally be required to visit a weight alongside of the road to verify if their load complies with regulations)  --  Washington, DC, USA - Land Line, by David Tanner - 5 June 2015

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Mar 31, 2015

TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS WORLDWIDE * Finland: 30 meters length trucks allowed

* Helsinki - More mega trucks to roll on Finnish roads


-- A lorry measuring over 30 metres in length can haul two large, 12-metre shipping containers, explains Tuomo Vallas, the managing director of Speed Group. “You can't fit two containers onto a regular 25-metre lorry, and you definitely can't take 1.6 containers,” he says... Speed Group is currently one of four companies to receive a special permit to operate larger lorries from the Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) since November 2013. The provider of road haulage services has been granted a five-year trial period to haul shipping containers from ports in Helsinki and Kotka to inland Finland... The number of mega trucks on Finnish roads may increase sharply in the coming years. Trafi is currently considering 19 permit applications for lorries over 76 tonnes in weight or over 25.25 metres in length. Thus far, a special permit has been granted for six such lorries, while a seventh one is likely to embark on its maiden voyage in the summer... Such longer and heavier lorries have been said to, for example, improve logistical efficiency, increase the competitiveness of export industries and reduce emissions from heavy road freight transport... For Speed Group, the lorries are means to hauling two shipping containers with a single vehicle... In the future, lorries operating under a special permit will become an increasingly common sight on main roads in Finland...
(Photo: Driver Petri Rouvinen pictured alongside a mega truck operated by Speed Group at Vuosaari Harbour in Helsinki) -- Helsinki, Finland - The Helsinki Times - 30 Mar 2015

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Mar 12, 2013

LARGER TRUCKS on IDAHO ROADS * USA

* Idaho - Senate gives thumbs up to plan to allow larger trucks 

(Photo: The Idaho Potato Tour)
Boise,ID,USA -Fleet Owner -Mar. 11, 2013: -- The Idaho State Senate has backed a plan aimed at allowing trucks up to 129,000 lbs. on more miles of Idaho roads... The plan is backed by the Idaho Trucking Assn. that said allowing larger trucks on more state highways will lower shipping costs and boost the state’s economy... In a 22-13 vote, the Senate agreed to allow big trucks on more of the state’s roads, provided local highway districts agree based on criteria set by the Idaho Transportation Dept... Since 2003, Idaho has allowed 129,000-pound trucks on select southern routes...

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May 14, 2011

Heavier trucks * USA - Still can be safe trucks

The assumption that a proposal to increase maximum truck weights on interstates from 80,000 pounds to 97,000 pounds will come at great cost to the public is flawed... 


Albany,NY,USA -The Times Union. by Kendra Adams -May 12, 2011: -- The May 5 commentary, "Future of trucking industry is frightening," which characterized heavier trucks as "deadlier monsters," was a slap in the face to the millions of professional truck drivers who deliver the goods we all rely upon in a safe and conscientious manner... Fatalities involving large trucks are at the lowest rate since the U.S. Department of Transportation began keeping records in 1975. In 2009, the truck fatality rate dropped to 1.17 deaths per 100 million miles, on par with passenger cars. Preliminary data for New York shows that fatalities from large truck accidents fell 37 percent from 2006 through 2009... The safe drivers responsible for the record-low fatality rate are the same safe drivers who would be behind the wheel of a heavier truck. In fact, New York allows trucks to operate at weights up to 120,000 pounds with an overweight permit. There is no data to suggest that those heavier vehicles experience more fatalities than an 80,000 pound truck... The U.S. Department of Transportation found that increasing truck weights nationwide would save taxpayers $2.5 billion over 20 years in pavement maintenance costs... Allowing heavier trucks on the nation's interstates will not lead to the "Titanic" fate the article claims...  (Photo from heavydutytrucksusa: A Conventional Truck heavy duty truck)

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Dec 11, 2009

HEAVIER TRUCKS * USA - Truck CrashVictims Warn Motorists about Big Rig Amendment

Federal Appropriations Bill: Allowing Dramatic Truck Size & Weight Increases on Maine and Vermont Interstate Highways and Bridges

Arlington,VA,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -Dec. 10, 2009: -- Truck crash victims and survivors today issued a warning to New England motorists regarding the insertion of an amendment to the federal transportation appropriations bill that will allow 108,000 to 120,000-pound tractor-trailers to operate on interstate roads and bridges in Vermont and 100,000-pound trucks on all Maine Interstate highways. The current Vermont standard for truck weights is 80,000 pounds gross weight, as established by federal law... Last night, U.S. House and Senate conferees to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) Appropriations legislation agreed to a FY 2010 funding bill that authorizes a one-year pilot program permitting trucks on all of Maine's interstate highways to exceed federal law by 20,000 pounds and by even larger margins - up to an additional 40,000 pounds - on Vermont's interstate highways. In fact, Maine will allow trucks under a wide range of special permits to far exceed even 100,000 pounds gross weight...

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Nov 18, 2009

"Illegal" * UK - Road Haulage Association Back B Double Long Freight Truck And Get A Seat In Europe

UK Haulier Launches “Illegal” vehicle whilst RHA Gain International Road Transport Position

London,UK –Handy Shipping Guide, by eter Cullum -17 November 2009: -- A British haulage company intends to launch a “B Double” or Longer Heavier Vehicle (LHV) by December this year, without the Government assent which is officially required. The British Government shelved the permission schedule for this type of vehicle some years ago, probably because the public perception of bigger trucks is of some smoke spewing monster which will cause carnage on the highways and damage to every road surface it travels on... Denby, the Lincoln based haulier, have announced that, in the light of extensive legal advice, they will proceed to use the rig and await results. They are prepared to meet the authorities in Court if necessary, citing scientific evidence that the huge vehicle is actually utilising less road space and producing fewer toxic emissions... B Doubles and even Triples are used extensively in many parts of the world but people have always been wary of extending vehicle lengths in the UK due to many road restrictions... Denby are confident that, provided they stay within existing weight and turning limits, the new vehicle is entirely legal. The Road Haulage Association have praised the company for keeping alive a debate which had stalled in the face of bureaucracy. It seems that negotiations with the Ministry of Transport have proved pointless and, should the vehicle be stopped by Police, the Court will be the final arbiter as to the legality of such equipment... (Picture from img.dailymail.co.uk: lorry DM)

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Jul 16, 2009

HEAVIER & LONGER TRUCKS * WORLDWIDE

* Australia - Bulkhaul's 500-tonne Aussie roadtrain... a 'moving' experience !!!

Perth,WA,Australia -BigLorryBlog -July 15, 2009: -- Scott McFarlane (from Powertrans in Oz check out their great site on http://www.ptrans.com.au/) says :... "Attached are some photo's and youtube links to our latest 350-tonne multi-powered roadtrain.We are operating 6 of these vehicles at an Iron ore mine in Western Australia hauling a 350,000kg payload on a 52km lead. The trip time is just under one hr. The gross combination mass is just over 500,000 kg!"...


* South Africa - Heavy haulage in

Johannesburg,South Africa -BigLorryBlog -July 15, 2009: -- Dennis Child, general manager at ROTRAN, the South African heavy haulage specialists has sent me this picture and says: "These shots show us preparing to move the smaller section of the two - a 254-ton 8m diameter load on a MAMMOET 18-axle 2 file module" ... "We'll use five D75 709kW Tractomas 8x8's. MAMMOET will move the larger unit at 453-ton 8 m in diameter on a SCALES French Nicolas 24 axle 4 line module. They will use five (5) MAN 48.700 8x8's and at the rear a MB 3850 6x6 unit. Combination overall length over 300metres..."

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Apr 13, 2009

Oversize Loads * USA - Getting undersized permit process in Alta

Alberta carriers that specialize in oversize loads are about to get a new friend: TRAVIS

Edmonton,ALTA,CAN -Today's Trucking -10 April 2009: -- ... Alberta Transportation has been working on the Transportation Routing and Vehicle Information System (TRAVIS) for a number of years and is just about ready to launch a pilot version to the industry... The system aims to provide a quick and easy permit application process for oversize loads. Rather than applying for multiple permits, carriers will be able to apply once in the TRAVIS database and carry a load across several municipalities... Registered carriers will also be able to use the system to check the status of applications and permits... (Photo: albacorshipping: "Alberta's big trucks")


* Do regional deals trump national truck harmony?

Halifax,Nova Scotia,CAN -Today's Trucking -13 April 2009: -- Do you dream of a day when the weight of a load you haul in Prince Rupert, B.C. will be the same as it is in Corner Brook, Nfld., and everywhere in between?... Well, you should keep dreaming, just as truck operators have been doing for decades in Canada... One problem, some critics say, lies in regional agreements between provinces that preclude national uniformity... Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, for example, recently inked an agreement making it easier to haul goods between the two provinces by relaxing transport regulatory barriers, among other trade breaks... The deal is similar to the Trade, Investment and Labor Mobility Agreement (TILMA) signed between B.C. and Alberta in 2007, and is intended to eliminate trade barriers for freer-flowing business and labor practices... (Photo: LCVs like this twin 53-ft rig are part of a plan to create freer flowing trade between NS and NB)

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Aug 7, 2008

Larger And Heavier Trucks * USA - American’s Dont Want they On U.S. Highways

Washington,DC,USA -JereBeasleyReport -7 August 2008: -- A new national survey shows that Americans overwhelming oppose efforts by the trucking and shipping industries to relax safety standards and allow longer and heavier trucks on our nation’s highways. The poll results counter a lobbying effort by the trucking and shipping industries to increase the size and weight of trucks in a six state “demonstration project”... The states in the project are Georgia, Maine, Michigan, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. The two industries have been lobbying Congress to increase the load limits for trucks in these states from 80,000 pounds to 97,000 pounds. According to a coalition of safety groups, larger and heavier trucks will mean more deaths and more damage to roads and bridges in this country... There is overwhelming scientific evidence that shows the larger trucks get, the more difficult they are to control, the longer they take to stop, and the more dangerous they are to the motoring public. Today, we are telling the trucking and shipping industries that we don’t need a demolition derby on U.S. highways... The independent survey of a representative sample of U.S. motorists conducted by Lake Research Partners found that 66% oppose changing laws to allow larger trucks carrying heavier loads. More than 80% believe that trucks pulling two or three trailers are not as safe as single-trailer trucks. The survey also found that the strong opposition to bigger trucks transcends political party, gender, age, and region...

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