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Report: Big Cheese: Kraft pushing for 97,000-pound "bridge wrecker" trucks (Autoblog)
Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety
Kraft Foods wants to bring you more Velveeta, more efficiently. According to
Bloomberg, the food giant says it needs to pack its 97,000-pound trucks full
of processed deliciousness in order to combat high diesel prices. Problem is,
interstate highways have an 80,000-pound weight limit.
But Kraft (along with other big corporations like Home Depot, MillerCoors, and
Archer-Daniels-Midland) thinks it can get the law changed. Congress just
extended a one-year pilot program to allow 100,000-pound trucks on interstates
in Maine and Vermont for an additional 20 years, and a new bill would let
every state decide whether they would allow the heavier trucks on their
interstate highways.
Advocates of the "Safe and Efficient Transportation Act" say that the proposal
is an economic necessity, and point out that states are already allowing
heavier trucks to travel their secondary roads. But others have raised
concerns about increased wear-and-tear on roads, and the questionable state of
repair of the nation's interstate bridges, which were only designed for
80,000-pound trucks, according to the report.
There's also the potential for more highway fatalities. Though highway deaths
have been on the decline, commercial truck-related deaths were up last year,
according to the ...
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