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Who Pays for Overweight Coal Trucks?  One clue. It's not the coal industry. Yup, it's you.

Crackdown on truck weights a success; Enforcing limits saves lives, so get rid of coal haulers' exemption

Click here to listen to an informative story aired on West Virginia Public Radio in 2003.

For more background, also see "Monster trucks: Physics laws unchanged." 

OVERWEIGHT COAL TRUCKS: WHO PAYS?

$ The WV Division of Highways estimates a minimum of $2.8 billion for road and bridge upgrades if weight limits are increased. Truck permit fees in this proposed bill will not come close to covering this cost! West Virginia taxpayers will pick up the tab!

$ Kentucky's 120,000 pound limit doesn't protect people or jobs. Coal Haulers there still can't earn a living without breaking the law. Mines are still laying off workers.

$ Enforcing current limits will prevent further road damage, protect motorists, and create more trucking jobs.

For your friends and family who live outside West Virginia. Ask them to take the following action:

What other industry would proudly proclaim on
billboards that it routinely breaks the law?

Since January of 2000, at least 13 people have been killed in accidents involving coal trucks.  West Virginia taxpayers must shell out millions of dollars to pay for road and bridge repairs as overweight coal trucks damage the infrastructure.

Click here for close up photos of Stollings Bridge

Even empty, coal trucks weigh 40,000 to 50,000 pounds.  Overweight coal trucks inflict exceedingly costly damages to our bridges and roads. Please call, e-mail and write your legislators today, and ask your friends and family to do the same.

For info on overweight coal trucks from 2002, click here. 

Photo Galleries:
Stollings Bridge
US 119, Pike Co. Ky.