{"id":67,"date":"2013-03-11T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=67"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:51:50","slug":"truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1991, the nation\u2019s highways limited the weight of trucks at 80,000 pounds.\u00a0 That has been the law ever since.\u00a0 But there is now an effort under way by the trucking industry to increase that weight limit for trucks to 97,000 pounds.\u00a0 The additional weight limit may cause a safety risk for other motorists on America\u2019s highway.<\/p>\n<p>With heavier trucks, not only are other drivers of motor vehicles at greater risk of injury or death, but the heavy trucks will cause more damage to the highway infrastructure. Safety advocates oppose this proposal.<\/p>\n<p>With additional weight, trucks would be harder to stop in emergency situations. The fatal crash rate for heavier trucks is significantly higher than a passenger vehicle crash rate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1991, the nation\u2019s highways limited the weight of trucks at 80,000 pounds.\u00a0 That has been the law ever since.\u00a0 But there is now an effort under way by the trucking industry to increase that weight limit for trucks to 97,000 pounds.\u00a0 The additional weight limit may cause a safety risk for other motorists on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 1991, the nation\u2019s highways limited the weight of trucks at 80,000 pounds.\u00a0 That has been the law ever since.\u00a0 But there is now an effort under way by\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In 1991, the nation\u2019s highways limited the weight of trucks at 80,000 pounds.\u00a0 That has been the law ever since.\u00a0 But there is now an effort under way by\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"In 1991, the nation\u2019s highways limited the weight of trucks at 80,000 pounds.\u00a0 That has been the law ever since.\u00a0 But there is now an effort under way by","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","twitter_description":"In 1991, the nation\u2019s highways limited the weight of trucks at 80,000 pounds.\u00a0 That has been the law ever since.\u00a0 But there is now an effort under way by","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"headline":"Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds","datePublished":"2013-03-11T15:00:42+00:00","dateModified":"2019-10-17T10:51:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/"},"wordCount":485,"articleSection":["Truck Accidents"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/","name":"Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-03-11T15:00:42+00:00","dateModified":"2019-10-17T10:51:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"description":"In 1991, the nation\u2019s highways limited the weight of trucks at 80,000 pounds.\u00a0 That has been the law ever since.\u00a0 But there is now an effort under way by","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/truckers-seek-to-increase-truck-weight-limit-to-97000-pounds\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Truckers Seek to Increase Truck Weight Limit to 97,000 Pounds"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Chicago Illinois Accident Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H0vI-15","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7288,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/7288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}