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| Group says its concerned about bill allowing for pilot program to increase truck weig
Group says its concerned about bill allowing for pilot program to increase truck weights in Maine Quote:
WASHINGTON — Consumer, health, safety, environmental and truck driver organizations were joined by the families of truck crash victims today to issue a warning to the motoring public about a trucking industry-backed provision in legislation coming to the U.S. Senate floor that under a pilot program would allow tractor-trailers to exceed the 80,000 pound federal truck size and weight limit on Maine's interstate highways.
The governor and trucking industry in Vermont have been seeking the same exemptions in their state, and are watching the congressional vote closely with hopes that it will open the door for federal truck weight exemptions to allow overweight trucks up to 100,000 pound trucks to operate in their state and throughout the northeast, the groups said in a news release.
The group said it was concerned that national and state trucking interests in other Northeast and mid-Atlantic states would use any such congressional action as a springboard for seeking a congressional repeal of the federal truck weight exemption in other states and nationwide.
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