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ATA now supports longer and/or heavier trucks

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You talk about the 160k in Canada, but does Canada have even a fraction of the traffic the US does? I doubt it. The majority of roads are junk because they were built that way. Crumbling roads keeps the construction companies working, job security. Joe Blo Contracting sends his wife's apple pies with the envelope of money to his local congressman every so often (anyone who's been following the Ryan trial in IL knows what I'm talking about). One can go on for hours on how government money should be spent and how it should be allocated. Who needs a Mars rover? I personally don't, I think we need 6 lane interstates instead. I'm still not convinced hauling heavier and longer will be the saving grace of the American economy. What is being advocated is doing more with less. One driver hauling what two could before, so now you only have to pay one driver instead of two...making more money with the truck. I think what is needed is a uniform transportation policy(?). Weight and length should be the same across every state and the speed limit should be the same across the country. In Illinois for example, UPS can only pull doubles. But when said driver gets to the Indiana border he goes to the yard in Gary and picks up a third for his ride across Indiana. Why not allow him to pull triples across the country instead?
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