Download or read book Excessive Truck Weight written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Excessive Truck Weight written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Excessive Truck Weight an Expensive Burden We Can No Longer Support written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Excessive Truck Weight written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Truck Weight Trends Related to Highway Structures written by Henson K. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Truck Weight Limits written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Truck Weight Study and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1990 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book Impact of Truck Overloads on the Highway Trust Fund written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Synthesis of Safety Implications of Oversize overweight Commercial Vehicles written by and published by AASHTO. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this report is to identify known relationships between commercial vehicle safety and crash causation factors and to prepare a synthesis of safety implications of oversize/overweight (OS/OW) commercial vehicles. This information can be used to support commercial vehicle enforcement and permitting practices and justify expenditures and investments on size and weight enforcement to enhance safety. In producing this report, insight was gained into the impacts of truck size and weight (TSW) regulations through three case studies. The state of practice in estimating large truck crash rates is complicated because of the many configurations and the wide range of possible weights for any particular configuration. This report highlights four primary findings regarding the contributions of OS/OW to commercial vehicle crashes found by its researchers.

Download or read book An Investigation of Truck Size and Weight Limits Report of the Secretary of Transportation to the United States Congress Pursuant to Section 161 of Public Law 95 599 the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 Appendices to the Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Truck Sizes and Weights written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Federal Government Should More Actively Promote Energy Conservation by Heavy Trucks Report to the Secretaries of Energy and Transportation written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effect of Truck Weight on Bridge Network Costs written by Gongkang Fu and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2003 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Investigation of Truck Size and Weight Limits Report of the Secretary of Transportation to the United States Congress Pursuant to Section 161 of Public Law 95 599 the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 Final Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Examining Current Conditions in the Trucking Industry and the Possible Necessity for Change in the Manner and Scope of Its Regulations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: