Back when I was still gainfully employed as a DOT cop I was never big on weights. It just struck me as fundamentally wrong to tell everyone that 80K was what the trucks and trailers were designed for and that it was what was safe and best for the highways and bridges and culverts. That's the way it was advertised. But then if a guy paid the state or county an extra $800.00 bucks he could haul 102 or 107K and there was talk of going even higher when I retired. I won't even get going on the over loaded farm trucks that hadn't seen any brake service since Jimmy Carter was Prez. And no one was supposed to notice the guy running a huge liquid manure tank across a county or state road for 7-8 miles that was running way over 100K, crushing culverts, collapsing roads, etc. all while being run behind a tractor that had no hope of stopping it in an emergency. You just were supposed to look the other way.
To me, it was all a racket. As long as you paid the state the "bribe money" you were good to go. Just struck me as wrong. If the farmer is okay running 120 or 130K down a county or town road, then why wouldn't the guy hauling stone or logs or whatever? I'm all for supporting ag, but I'm also all for supporting loggers, quarries, etc. and the truckers that are trying to make a living.
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