Editorial About Heavy Trucks Based On 'Misinformation'

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The Sun Journal editorial "Heavier trucks should be allowed north of Augusta" (Sept. 15), advocating 100,000-pound trucks from Augusta to the Canadian border on I-95 is based on wishful thinking, suppositions that have been repeatedly disproved, and misinformation supplied by our own Maine Department of Transportation and the Maine trucking industry.

There is no plan, either in regulation or legislation, to remove extra-heavy, tractor-trailers from local roads and streets. The trucking industry is on record as opposed to removing those big rigs from the roads off the Interstate highway system.

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Editorial About Heavy Trucks Based On 'Misinformation'

The joke is on Maine's citizens who have been openly misled to believe that if these enormous rigs ...

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