(Source: Bloomberg News, February 3, 2012)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A House panel voted to stop a measure written by its own chairman to allow 97,000-pound trucks on U.S. interstate highways and expand use of double- and triple- trailers in states that now allow them. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today voted 33-22 to delay any expansion in use of trucks weighing more than 80,000 pounds for three years, so the U.S. Transportation Department can study the potential effect on highway safety, roads and bridges.
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