Tulsa World
by: D.R. STEWART World Staff Writer
Thursday, July 07, 2011
7/7/2011 5:10:44 AM
Federal legislation that would permit states to increase the maximum tractor-trailer weight limit from 80,000 pounds to 97,000 pounds should be rejected, AAA-Oklahoma says.
In the latest issue of AAA-Oklahoma's member magazine, Home & Away, AAA-Oklahoma President and CEO Neal Krueger said the organization has been a strong advocate for roads that are safer and easier to travel and bridges that meet the highest design and safety standards.
"Unfortunately, these basic needs of Oklahoma's motoring public are increasingly under attack due to a current push in Congress to allow 18-wheelers to grow from the current 80,000-pound standard to 97,000 pounds, a 20 percent increase," Krueger writes in the magazine's July/August issue... FULL ARTICLE
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Thu, July 7, 2011
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