Research

Letters & Other Support

One-Pagers

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RESEARCH

• Maine DOT - Engineering Analysis of Maine's Interstate Bridges
   
• Interstate & State Weight Limits for Five- and Six-Axle Single Trailer Trucks
  
  
• Minnesota DOT - Impact & Analysis of Higher Vehicle Weight Limits, March 2011
   
• Maine DOT - Interstate Highway Truck Weights White Paper, September 20, 2021

• Reducing Heavy-Duty Long Haul Combination Truck Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions Dec 09 by the Southwest Reasearch Institute, the International Council on Clean Transportation, and the Northeast States Center for a Clean Air Future

•  American Transportation Research Institute Study on Fuel Emmissions and Consumption for 6 axle trucks in Maine September 09 
  
  
• Soybean Growers Release Study on Increased Truck Weights June-09
  
  
• UMTRI Study May-09
  
  
• TRUCKS AND THEIR IMPACT ON BRIDGES
  
  
• 2008 ATRI Higher Productivity Vehicle Study
  
  
• EU Weight Study 2008 Final Report
  
  
• Impact Assessment of the Regulation of Heavy Truck Operations – New York
  
  
• Transportation Research Board Truck Weight Study
  
  
• Minnesota DOT Truck Weight & Size Study
  
  
• AASHTO Report - America's Freight Challenge
  
  
• American Trucking Association's Summary of Truck Size and Weight Studies
  
  
• Impacts of Truck Weight Increase in the United Kingdom
  
  
• Economic Effects of Transportation: The Freight Story
  
  
• Wisconsin DOT Truck Size and Weight Study – 2009
  
  
• State Weight Exemption Table
  
  

LETTERS & OTHER SUPPORT

• Letter from Co-Sponsors to House Committee on Agriculture
  
  
• Maine State Troopers Association Letter
  
  
• Reps. Schmidt & McMorris-Rodgers Letter to Colleagues
  
  
• Conversation with John Zicconi, Director of Planning for the Vermont Agency of Transportation
  
  
• Letter of Support from the National Black Chamber of Commerce
  
  

ONE-PAGERS

• Truck Weight Reform & Safety
  
  
• Studies and Evidence Supporting Truck Weight Reform
  
  
• The Safe & Efficient Transportation Act: Separating Myth from Fact
  
  
• California League of Food Processors
  
  
• Campbell Benefits from SETA
  
  
• Nestle
  
  
• American Trucking Association's response to the CTP-opposed Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act
  
  
• American Forest & Paper Association Truck Weights
  
  
• American Forest & Paper Association Truck Weights and Energy
  
  
• Agricultural Transportation Efficiency Coalition (AgTEC )
  
  
• International Paper
  
  
• Kraft Foods, Inc
  
  
• MillerCoors
  
  
• Mississippi Loggers Association
  
  
• Coalition for Transportation Productivity
  
  
• Washington State Potato Commission