Bridge Rating Practices and Policies for Overweight Vehicles


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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 359: Bridge Rating Practices and Policies for Overweight Vehicles explores overweight vehicle permit processes. The report includes information on state and provincial bridge rating systems, bridge evaluation practices, and permit policies as they relate to overweight and oversize vehicles. The report is designed to help in the understanding of the reasons for nonuniform permitting practices. The report reviews specifications, software types, treatment of nonstandard configurations, and allowance for in-place dead loads; processes of permit review; and personnel assigned to permit review.







Motor Vehicle Size and Weight Regulations, Enforcement, and Permit Operations


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Many of the problems associated with enforcing oversize and overweight limits derive from the confusing variety of requirements--for applications, fees, issuance, signs, flags, escorts, actual limits, fines--from state to state and within states. This lack of uniformity sometimes leads truckers to believe that it is cheaper and less time consuming to risk being caught than to conform to law. The report strongly recommends that uniform standards for interstate overlimit travel be sought. Enforcement efforts and permit procedures also need to be coordinated.




Motor Vehicle Size and Weight Regulations, Enforcement, and Permit Operations


Book Description

Many of the problems associated with enforcing oversize and overweight limits derive from the confusing variety of requirements--for applications, fees, issuance, signs, flags, escorts, actual limits, fines--from state to state and within states. This lack of uniformity sometimes leads truckers to believe that it is cheaper and less time consuming to risk being caught than to conform to law. The report strongly recommends that uniform standards for interstate overlimit travel be sought. Enforcement efforts and permit procedures also need to be coordinated. (Author).







Oversize-overweight Permit Operation on State Highways


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A sample of permits in the 48 contiguous states for the year 1966 was surveyed to determine the characteristics of oversize-overweight permit operations on state highways in the U.S. Recommendations to change some of the permit practices are presented.




Synthesis of Highway Practice


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