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Congress Considers Potentially Deadly Experiment With Heavy Trucks
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 Oct. 4, 2023 | OPINION | “New products come to the market regularly, and consumers have come to expect significant testing and safeguards, especially for products that can affect public safety, such as new life-saving drugs or advancements in airplane technology. Before these are made available, they must be proven safe. And for good reason — a new product can have catastrophic effects regardless of the intentions. This is why law enforcement nationwide is concerned with legislation under consideration in Congress that would allow bigger trucks on our roads…One proposal would create a 10-year “pilot project” allowing 91,000-pound trucks — five and a half tons heavier than today’s limits. The goal: to see how many of these trucks are involved in crashes and to report the number of injuries and deaths. The usual years of data analysis and testing? Not for these 91,000-pound behemoths. The goal is to skip the typical due diligence and put them on roads immediately across America. Motorists become the guinea pigs in this experiment, with lives on the line…” DC Journal
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