Tulsa World
By GAVIN OFF World Data Editor
Published: 1/4/2011 2:24 AM
Last Modified: 1/4/2011 8:10 AM
Oklahoma is one step closer to constructing a group of state-of-the-art stations that would weigh commercial vehicles as they speed along the highway.
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission provided $10 million Monday to the state Department of Transportation to complete the construction of two recently approved highway weigh stations, also known as ports of entry.
One of the stations will be on Interstate 40 in Beckham County, and the second will be on Interstate 35 in Kay County.
After they are built, the state will construct seven other ports of entry, which ODOT officials said would be designed to stop only those trucks that are operating illegally or unsafely.
"The benefit is (most) trucks don't have to stop," ODOT Deputy Director Mike Patterson said. "They pass the station at 65 mph or 75 mph and commerce keeps rolling."
A key part of the new stations will be on the highway two miles before the station itself. That's where trucks will be weighed electronically, Patterson said... FULL ARTICLE
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Tue, January 4, 2011
by John Cox