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Jul 19, 2017

* THE 10 BIGGEST TRUCKS IN THE wORLD

* England - The top 10 biggest trucks in the world

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 --- Vehicles longer than a swimming pool, bigger than a family home with 11,000BHP... With their ability to travel at more than 40 mph, just pray you never find yourself in the path of one of these beasts... For the average motorist, the chance of a truck the size of your house pulling up along side you on the motorway is virtually zero... However, for those who work in some of the world’s major mining industries, mega trucks are a common sight... From vehicles longer than a swimming pool to those powerful enough to carry 50 elephants, some of these machines truly defy belief... Fortunately for us, online marketplace Machineseeker has compiled a list of the biggest vehicles around that we can view from the comfort of our own homes, without having to put ourselves in the path of these mammoth machines... The world’s largest truck comes to us from Belarusian manufacturer Belaz... With dimensions equivalent to that of a twin house, it is one imposing figure... Most impressive, however, is what’s under the hood. With 11,012bhp, it has as much power as seven Bugatti Chiron supercars combined... 
London, EN, UK - The Sun, by Dan Elsom - 14th July 2017

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Mar 18, 2015

BIGGER RIGS * USA: For the trucking industry

* New Jersey - Bigger rigs are better in the trucking industry, says the Third Circuit

-- The Third Circuit joined other circuits in its ruling this week that trucking companies are not relieved from the payment of overtime wages to their employees whose job “in whole or in part” affects the safe operation of vehicles lighter than 10,000 pounds. In general, the Fair Labor Standards Act provides that employers are required to pay employees 150% of wages for the hours they work over 40 hours per week. Prior to this decision, some trucking companies believed, as the defendant in this case, that the Motor Carrier Exemption excused payments to truck drivers for overtime... The Exemption generally provides that a trucking company is not required to pay overtime pursuant to the FLSA for any employee who falls within the Secretary of Transportation’s regulatory authority. This is consistent with other federal statutes that recognize that motor carriers are in a different position than other employers. One of note is the Fair Credit Reporting Act which has an extremely narrow trucking industry exception... Newark,NJ,USA - Garden State Gavel, by IRINA ELGART -MARCH 13, 2015

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Feb 23, 2015

STUDY * USA: Drivers opposed to bigger trucks, study says

* DC - Most drivers are opposed to the federal government allowing bigger trucks on the road

 -- According to a new survey: The Coalition Against Bigger Trucks, which includes a number of traffic safety advocates and law enforcement organizations, reports that three out of four Americans do not want to drive alongside longer and heavier semi-trucks on the highway... The study comes after trucking companies previously lobbied for bigger trucks... In 2012, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) wrote a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to support the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012. This bill contained a provision allowing so-called "longer combination vehicles," which would include triple-trailer trucks... But the survey found that 76 percent of Americans are opposed to such increases in truck size. In fact, 57 percent of people say they would be “less likely” to vote for a member of Congress who supports such legislation... Law enforcement organizations are even more opposed to bigger trucks... The coalition pointed to another 2013 study that found 95 percent of law enforcement officers believe bigger trucks would make the roads more dangerous... (Photo: Getty Images) - Washington,DC,USA - The Hill, by Tim Devaney - 20 Feb 2015

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Jun 11, 2013

BIG-TRUCKS TRIAL * Australia

* Australia - Industry gave big-truck trial a wide berth

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Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -The Age, by Adam Carey -June 10, 2013: -- A two-year trial to assess the impact of bigger, heavier trucks on Victoria's roads produced almost no useful data on their effect around Melbourne, because the only truck operator that participated soon quit as the trial conditions were too onerous... Nevertheless, the state government announced in April that 30-metre B-double trucks and larger 36.5-metre B-triples would be free to operate on most of Melbourne's freeways and tollways, in a transport policy shift it dubbed "moving more with less"... Documents obtained using freedom-of-information laws reveal VicRoads' two-year trial of bigger freight trucks, from 2009 to 2011, was heavily compromised by a lack of participation by an industry unhappy with restrictions on mass limits, and by travel bans on some suburban roads and during peak hour... In a 2012 report to VicRoads, transport consultant Rob Di Cristoforo wrote that just one Melbourne transport operator joined the trial... The report noted that allowing heavier trucks on those roads would require strengthening or even demolishing and rebuilding some older bridges... Residents in the inner west would now confront larger trucks on local roads as those trucks completed the ''last mile'' of their journeys, she said...

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Dec 1, 2010

Analysis * USA - Bigger trucks would cost more than they would save

US Trucking Industry Pushes For Heavier Trucks On Roads

New York,NY,USA -Gerson Lehman Group, by Toby Kolstad -November 23, 2010: ...  Hardly anyone disputes the fact that bigger truckloads will do more damage to the nation’s highways than loads limited to 80,000lbs...   The proposed increase in the maximum heavy truck permit fee from $550 to $800, a 45.5% increase compared to the 25% increase in truck weights, gives tacit recognition to this problem without addressing past underpayments. Many of the infrastructure problems the nation is facing today are related to the damage heavy trucks have done in the past, along with the underfunding of highway maintenance programs... The trucking industry is expecting to suffer a capacity problem related to the full enforcement of the Highway Administration’s CSA 2010. Increasing the weight limit on trucks would go a long way in offsetting these new safety regulations. Some shippers who are worried about their logistical support from this industry may even endorse the idea of bigger trucks... The teamsters oppose the idea because of safety, by they could be, and probably will be bought off by higher wages. The latter may even be necessary for the trucking companies to attract enough drivers who can comply with CSA 2101...

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Oct 2, 2010

Bigger Trucks * Australia - They are needed, but BITRE not sold

Stuart St Clair: “To deliver these products efficiently, we will need to be able to use safer trucks with greater capacity on more roads”

Sydney,NSW,Australia -Supply Chain, by Brad Gardner -September 30, 2010: -- The trucking lobby wants higher productivity vehicles to be given greater access to the road network despite a government department raising concerns about the trucks... The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) has used the latest road freight figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) to argue the case for super B-doubles and B-triples... According to the BITRE report, the overall road freight task will grow 2.67 percent per annum to almost double (1.8 times) between 2008 and 2030... The interstate task is expected to more than double (2.3 times) and capital city freight will grow 1.7 times over the same period... Super B-doubles are capable of carrying two 40 foot containers and ATA CEO, Stuart St Clair, says they can halve the number of truck trips and reduce the number of kilometres travelled by 25 percent... (Photo from wikipedia - Road Train2)


* TWU: Forget bigger trucks, higher wages a must

Canberra,Australia -Transport Workers Union National News, by Tony Sheldon/National Secretary -1 Oct 2010: -- TWU criticises focus on bigger trucks as freight task increases, saying drivers need better pay conditions... Mr Sheldon said... “Also growing at the same rate is the road toll. According to the NRMA, since 1989 there have been 3835 deaths in the road transport industry and over 300 people have been killed each year at the moment... This figure is rising at a rate much bigger than the freight task but it does not get the same attention from the big end of town. They just want bigger trucks... Every year we see a new report telling us this industry is growing at a rate that is greater than inflation... But while the costs associated with the industry are going up - the payments made by clients seem to be stagnant, with pressure building the further down the supply chain you go... We need to get to the root of this problem"... This week, the NSW Government’s Joint Standing Committee on Road Safety’s Report on Heavy Vehicle Safety, has acknowledged that economic pressures affects heavy vehicle safety, saying: “the question of adequate remuneration does raise workforce and safety issues which are a direct concern"... "We need safe rates now. The road toll can’t be allowed to grow with the industry,” ends Mr. Sheldon.

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Nov 21, 2009

Bigger Trucks * USA - Study says: Greener in Maine

Trucking group finds fuel, emissions benefits to use of heavier tractor-trailers

Augusta,Maine,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Nov 19, 2009: -- In a study researchers found that allowing 100,000 pound trucks already permitted on state roads in Maine to use Interstates could reduce the fuel they consume and emissions... Federal law allows those trucks on state highways, the Maine Turnpike and a portion of Interstate 95 in Kittery... The Maine Department of Transportation contracted the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI is an affiliate of the American Trucking Associations), to study what would happen if the exemption were broadened to other Interstates in Maine... Using simulation modeling, ATRI compared the performance of a six-axle, 100,000-pound tractor-trailer over I-95 versus Route 9 between Augusta and Brewer, just outside Bangor... On the simulated I-95 route, the truck’s fuel efficiency was 14 to 21 percent better while carbon dioxide emissions decreased 6 to 11 percent compared with Route 9. Nitrogen oxide and particulates emissions were cut 3 to 8 percent, said ATRI... Over a week, those savings would be even greater, amounting to 338 to 675 gallons of fuel... (Photo from hankstruckpictures, by Andy Bruchey: Empty Western Star logger returning from the log yard in Millinocket, ME)

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Jun 23, 2009

BIGGER TRUCKS * USA - Truckers spar over increasing weight limit

State transportation officials concerned that local roadways can’t handle extra large loads

New Orleans,LOU,USA -The New Orleans City Business, by Christian Moises -22 June 2009: -- The Louisiana Forestry Association is one of more than 100 groups and companies urging Congress to raise the federal vehicle weight limit on U.S. interstates... But for all the proposal’s upside — fewer trucks burning less fuel to move more cargo — it doesn’t necessarily mean good news for the trucking industry, said Cathy Gautreaux, executive director of the Louisiana Motor Transport Association... The Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2009, proposed by Reps. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, and Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, would allow states to increase their interstate vehicle weight limit to 97,000 pounds and require trucks carrying those loads to have six axles... States adopted the current 80,000-pound limit in 1982... Buck Vandersteen, Louisiana Forestry Association executive director, said the proposal will lead to fewer trucks on the road, which will mean lower prices at the store for consumers. The LFA is one of more than 100 U.S. organizations and companies that formed the Coalition for Transportation Productivity, the chief group lobbying for the SET Act... The coalition claims U.S. truck freight will double by 2025 and that truck traffic is growing 11 times faster than road capacity... Mike Coatney, president of Harvey-based Acme Truck Line, works with 2,000 owner-operators and business partners and 240 to 250 flatbed trailers. He says the decision to raise weight limits should be based on engineering, not on maximizing profits... (Photo by Frank Aymami - A tractor-trailer goes through the weigh station on Interstate 10 in LaPlace)


* Trucking Limits

Augusta,Maine,USA -WABI/TV5 News Desk -Jun 22, 2009: -- Senator Susan Collins is asking fellow senators to approve a one-year pilot project exempting Maine's highways from the federal truck limit of 80,000 pounds... She says it's safer to keep heavy trucks on the highway, and it prevents wear and tear on smaller roads... Collins wants to allow trucks weighing up to 100,000 pounds to travel on Interstate 95 north of Augusta...

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Jun 22, 2009

Bigger Trucks * USA - Blue Green Alliance Leads Array of Labor, Environmental Organizations in Opposition to

Labor Unions, National Environmental Groups Endorse Bills

Washington,DC,USA -The Blue Green Alliance (press release) -June 19, 2009: -- The Blue Green Alliance, along with an array of labor unions and environmental organizations, said today that they oppose allowing heavier and longer trucks, including huge triple-trailer trucks, on the nation's highways. The coalition said they will work to pass a bill that would extend the "freeze" on truck size and weight to the entire National Highway System (NHS)... Joining the Blue Green Alliance in opposition to bigger trucks and in support of the Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act are the Sierra Club, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Laborers' International Union of North America, Environment America, Communications Workers of America and the Service Employees International Union... These national labor and environmental organizations are working to debunk the arguments of major corporate interests claiming bigger trucks would mean fewer trucks on the road and reduced fuel use... In addition to wrecking roads and bridges, allowing heavier and longer trucks would mean more fuel consumption and a move away from energy efficiency at a time when reducing fuel use and global warming emissions is a national imperative...

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Jul 15, 2008

NEW STUDIES * USA - Battle for bigger trucks

USA -Fleet Owner, by Skil Carr -July 14, 2008: -- “Bigger trucks are more dangerous trucks. Lifting truck weight and size limits would turn big rigs into time bombs.” –James P. Hoffa, general president, International Brotherhood of Teamsters... You’ve got to give Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters credit: they know how to fire off good sound bites. The above quotation comes from the latest Teamster broadside aimed at heading off an effort to review federal truck size and weight limit laws... Right now, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is proposing to launch a pilot program that would allow heavier and longer combination vehicles (LCVs) to operate on U.S. highways in “border states,” presumably those along the U.S.-Mexican border... While I haven’t turned up anything official about such an FMCSA study, there’s no doubt that the truck size and weight issue is again coming to a boil as the trucking industry not only searches for ways to boost productivity without adding more expensive equipment to our already-clogged roads, but to improve its environmental footprint as well... Indeed, the industry is already conducting new size and weight studies of its own. The National Private Truck Council (NPTC), for one, approved an informal technical proposal to conduct a study on the benefits of larger trucks for those businesses operating private truck fleets back in April this year... The study, to be conducted by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), is designed to benchmark the current transportation efficiency by looking at the operations of archetypal private fleets, focusing on: over-the-road operating costs, cargo transported, miles traveled and safety performance... One thing is for certain – with diesel fuel costing $5 a gallon on average in the U.S. now, with equipment costs forecast to rise an additional $5,000 to $10,000 to meet 2010 emission regulations, and with truck drivers still in short supply, the debate over putting more LCVs on our highways won’t be going away anytime soon...


* REPORT - Trucking Insurance Industry Journal Roemer's Report: Proposed legislation to allow rigs to carry up to 100,000 lbs. on federal interstates when diesel fuel reaches a certain price per gallon

Toledo,OH,USA -Insurance News Net - July 14, 2008: -- The July edition of trucking insurance industry journal, The Roemer Report, discusses what is being described as trucking’s biggest shakeout since 1980, when the industry was deregulated. The Roemer Report notes that small operators are the hardest hit. In the first quarter of 2008, 935 small motor carriers went out of business as compared to 385 the year before... The Roemer Report has been published by Roemer Insurance for more than 30 years. The publication is distributed free of charge in both print and electronic formats... According to The Roemer Report, a pilot program proposed by senators from Maine, may help truckers cope with the escalating cost of diesel fuel. The two-year program would allow rigs to carry up to 100,000 pounds on the federal interstate system whenever diesel fuel reaches a certain price per gallon. The higher weight limit would allow trucks to carry more cargo and eliminate the need for drivers to move onto local roads that require more fuel and idling time. The Maine Department of Transportation conducted a study four years ago and found that higher weight limits would be safer and save money... The July edition of The Roemer Report also notes that truckers in the U.S. are not alone in feeling the devastating effects of oil prices. Truckers in Spain, France, Portugal, India, Nepal, and Hong Kong have recently staged large and far-reaching strikes to protest spikes in diesel fuel prices that are over $10 per gallon in Europe...

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