Aug 6, 2014 | American Loggers Council, Business Impact, Call to Action, Economics, General, Industry News, News, Truck Weights
September 2014 By Danny Dructor, ALC Executive Vice-President For seventeen years, members of the American Loggers Council have been making trips to Washington, DC, promoting the idea that trucks hauling state legal weight limits for agricultural commodities,...
Mar 19, 2012 | Business Impact, Maine Regulations, News, PLC Members in the News, Truck Weights
PORTLAND, Maine — Heavy trucks are being temporarily banned from thousands of miles of secondary roads across northern New England with the early arrival of spring… …In the northern Maine town of Fort Kent, TNT Road Co. employees are working shifts...
Nov 18, 2011 | Business Impact, Federal Legislation, News, Truck Weights
The U.S. Senate, tonight, approved the Fiscal Year 2012 Transportation funding bill that includes a provision, written by Senator Susan Collins, that will allow the heaviest trucks to travel on federal interstates in Maine for 20 years instead of forcing them off the...
Nov 18, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Federal Legislation, Truck Weights
Today, the House passed a provision that would allow heavier trucks on the Maine Interstate. Passage by the Senate, which is expected later today or tomorrow, will clear the bill for the President’s signature. Congressman Michaud spoke in favor of the provision on the...
Nov 14, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, PLC Members in the News, Truck Weights
By Clarke Canfield, The Associated Press PORTLAND — When Brian Souers’ trucks haul logs from northern Maine to mills in other parts of the state, they often drive through small towns on two-lane state highways, even when four-lane Interstate 95 is nearby…...
Nov 11, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulations, Industry News, Truck Weights
Senator Collins convinces House-Senate negotiators to approve plan to allow heavier trucks to use Maine’s federal interstates for at least 20 years WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the top Republican on the Senate Transportation Appropriations...