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Safety ? - USA - Current Federal Regulations Create Danger on Maine's Secondary Thoroughfares.
The Heaviest Trucks Belong on the State's Biggest Roads
Portland,OR,USA -The Portland Press Herald -19 Sept 2006: -- In the interest of highway safety, federal regulators have banned heavy trucks from the roads best able to handle them safely. This backward policy causes more hazards than it prevents... Trucks that weigh more than 80,000 pounds are banned from travel on federally regulated Interstate highways north of Augusta. That means 100,000 behemoths travel secondary highways, sometimes with disastrous results... A more dangerous alternative would be truck companies' putting a greater number of slightly lighter trucks on the Interstates to be able to use the faster highways, adding to traffic and pollution...
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