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| Bill proposed to ease weight restrictions
Bill proposed to ease weight restrictions 1/16/08 Bangor Daily News, ME Quote: Emergency legislation that aims to give state logging truckers some temporary relief from high diesel prices by increasing the amount of wood they can haul should be ready for Gov. John Baldacci’s signature early next week.
LD 2155 passed the House with all but final approval on Tuesday and almost got through the Senate, but senators objected to passing it without a public hearing. They pushed it back to the Transportation Committee for a hearing set for 1 p.m. Thursday.
The bill will be handled quickly, said Sen. Dennis Damon, the co-committee chairman. The committee has a work session after the hearing where he expected it would pass. The bill becomes law immediately after it goes back through both chambers and Baldacci signs it.
"We can get some temporary relief for the forest products industry from those diesel prices," Damon, D-Trenton, said Tuesday. "Increasing weights has a negative effect on roads but with roads being frozen this time of year, we are pretty confident that they can withstand it." | http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.as...981&zoneid=500  |
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