The reality of Truck Weight Increases..Will The Interstates Become Drop Zones

Very few things rival the mass of a fully loaded Auto Transport. One area of discussion that has come up is increasing truck weights. So I did a scan to find out how dangerous could increasing truck weights be to an Auto Transport. Well I pulled this from the Dayton Daily News:

Ohio Bridges as reviewed by Ohio County Engineers Assoc.

Over 6,000 , about 25% of the bridges in Ohio:

• are no longer opened
• have been cut down to one lane
• marked for load reductions 
• ruled structurally deficient

With 6,000 bridges not making it now... can you imagine what would happen with heavier trucks in Ohio alone?  Ohio would be known as the drop zone state. There would be jokes about the real Ohio lottery being the people taking a chance going over the bridges. We would be the only state where you would need a parachute that inflates in addition to the airbag. Nobody would want to drive through Ohio And this is only one state

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Trucking And The Economy: Big Payloads Often Mean Economic Growth...

Trucking is the lifeblood of any economy. It moves the goods back and forth. Whatever product your using or holding was..brought on a truck.

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On a bigger scale large truck payloads are often signs of economic stimulation and prosperity. I am placing a link to a story about a construction equipment haul by a specialized hauling truck. While not all that glamorous, it means someone, somewhere is building something for some reason..which isnt a bad thing

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Will Rail Overtake Trucks in Volume Someday?

The Return of Rail

Over 5 billion dollars have been leavied against the trucking industry and it has taken its toll.
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1. There are less drivers
2. Higher costs have put scores of truckers out of business
3. AND NOW...

Railroad is picking up the slack. I have just read that they are reaping huge profits. When I say huge I mean
enough to spend our 10 billion dollars on infrastructure improvement. WHAT..lets do a comparison

• Trucking has added 5 billion dollars of cost    
• Rail is able to spend 10 billion on infrastructure from profit

I am glad that the jobs are just moving to other forms of American business but I do not understand
why the federal government has such a campaign against trucking. Maybe they did not set out to do this but this is definitely the result

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