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Apr 11, 2013
In response to a POLITICO poll measuring support for increased truck weight limits, the Coalition for Transportation Productivity (CTP) is reaching out to soybean farmers to help show support for increasing the federal vehicle weight limit to 97,000 pounds for vehicles equipped with an additional (sixth) axle. ASA supports increasing the federal truck weight limits above 80,000 pounds with the addition of a sixth axle.
CTP is a coalition of about 200 shippers and allied associations that advocates for heavier – not bigger – six-axle trucks that meet the same safety standards as trucks currently allowed on interstates.
Raising interstate weight limits for six-axle tractor-trailers would effectively help address the safety, economic and environmental challenges facing our nation's freight transportation network.
Farmers can help by logging on to the poll here before Friday, April 12 and answering "yes".
