Tag: 97000 pounds

Voices
Increased federal weight limits: Voices against
Cary Goodman, Dan Gerster weigh in — no pun intended — on the notion of increasing federal weight limits to 97,000 lbs. with the addition of a third trailer axle. What do you think?
November 19, 2013
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Channel 19
Roundup: I-5 bridge collapse weighing heavy, operators flying the flag
Many of the same issues are in the political foreground today around highway regulation and funding as were being debated in 2007 when the Minneapolis I-35W bridge fell, with sometimes overheated rhetoric.
May 28, 2013
Many of the same issues are in the political foreground today around highway regulation and funding — the use of tolls v. fuel taxes, whether to increase or otherwise further limit truck weight — as in 2007 when the Minneapolis I-35W collapse led a discussion of funding issues I wrote for Truckers News.
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