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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Excessive Truck Weight: an Expensive Burden We Can No Longer Support
Author: Excessive Truck Weight
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289136215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Nation's highways are deteriorating at an accelerated pace and sufficient funds are not available to cope with current needs or meet future requirements. Excess truck weight is one cause that can be controlled. By strictly enforcing their weight laws, states could virtually eliminate the damage being caused by overweight trucks. While controlling truck weights will not eliminate highway deterioration, applying federal weight limits to all trucks on federal-aid highways could substantially reduce this deterioration. National statistics show that at least 22 percent of all loaded tractor-trailers exceed state weight limits. This percentage is even higher for other types of large trucks. Although the Department of Transportation (DOT) supported the 1975 increased federal weight limits, it has no program sufficient to offset related increased costs to preserve the quality of the highways. While the 1975 weight increases were made to save fuel for heavy trucks, all vehicles use more fuel on deteriorated roads, heavier trucks use more fuel, and additional highway repairs require more fuel. DOT has not determined whether there has been an overall fuel saving since the higher limits were allowed. A good weight enforcement program requires effective enforcement techniques, stringent penalties, and adequate staff and funds. States need standards to evaluate their program to enforce weight limits that will enable them to identify problems and reliable alternative solutions.
Excessive Truck Weight
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
General Accounting Office Publications
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Better Targeting of Federal Funds Needed to Eliminate Unsafe Bridges. Comptroller General's Report to the Honorable James R. Sasser, United States Senate
Author: Better Targeting of Federal Funds Needed to Eliminate Unsafe Bridges
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
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Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Truck Weight Limits
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Truck Weight StudyPublisher: Transportation Research Board
ISBN: 9780309049559
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
To help assess proposals for further changes in federal truck weight limits, Congress requested this study through Section 158 of the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987. To conduct the study, the National Research Council convened a special Transportation Research Board committee with experts in pavements, bridges, highway safety, freight transportation economics, motor vehicle design, highway administration, motor carrier operations, and enforcement of motor vehicle regulations. The study focused on four issues identified in the study request that involve potential changes to federal weight limits for Interstate highways: (1) Elimination of existing grandfather provisions; (2) Alternative methods for determining gross vehicle weight and axle loadings; (3) Adequacy of the current federal bridge formula; and (4) Treatment of specialized hauling vehicles--garbage trucks, dump trucks, and other trucks with short wheel bases that have difficulty complying with the current federal bridge formula. For each of these issues, the study committee estimated the nationwide effects of changes in federal limits proposed by the trucking industry, highway agencies, and other groups. Projections of heavy-truck miles by type of truck, region of the country, highway functional class, and operating weight were developed for a base case and alternative truck weight regulatory scenarios. These projections were then used to estimate impacts on truck costs, pavements, bridges, and safety.
Truck Sizes and Weights
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Three Mile Island Nuclear Powerplant Accident
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Nuclear RegulationPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
Book Description
Examining the Nation's Immediate and Long-term Surface Transportation Capital Needs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 2040
Book Description