Tulsa World
by: D.R. STEWART World Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
6/28/2011 3:49:43 AM
Construction is on schedule for completion in October of Oklahoma's first state-of-the-art commercial truck weigh station - and none too soon, state and industry officials say.
While a network of nine port of entry or truck weigh stations is not expected to be completed for several years, there is an urgency to the state's $61 million program, industry officials say, as the trucking industry moves into an expansion cycle and Congress debates raising the 29-year-old national 80,000-pound tractor-trailer weight limit on U.S. highways.
Kenna Mitchell, spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, said contractors are finishing work on the 8,300-square-foot weigh station along Interstate 35 just south of the Kansas border in Kay County.
Construction is expected to be completed in January on the state's second, $8.7 million weigh station, along I-40 just east of the Texas border in Beckham County, officials said.
Duit Construction Co. and TTK Construction Co. of Edmond are the contractors on the $7.48 million Kay County project, which is on a 12-acre site, Mitchell said... FULL ARTICLE
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