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Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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Pennsylvania Gov. John Fine vetoed a bill increasing truck tandem weights, deeming the $25 overweight fine inadequate and questioning the strain on the state's $1.7 billion highway system amid material shortages, shocking the trucking industry.
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HARRISBURG -- Pennsylvania's Gov. John Fine, convinced that trucks are not paying their fair share of highway costs, has vetoed the "big truck" bill increasing tandem weights.
He termed "wholly inadequate" the $25 fine imposed by the bill in axle overweight cases.
The governor's action came as a shock to the trucking industry, reports a Philadelphia paper. The truckers have lobbied for years for what they called "weight parity" with other states.
Pennsylvania's governor saw it differently--he questioned the wisdom of submitting the state's $1,700,000,000 highway system to increased weights at a time when highway materials are in critically short supply.
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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bill vetoed; shock to trucking industry
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Gov. John Fine vetoed the "big truck" bill increasing tandem weights, convinced trucks do not pay fair share of highway costs and terming the $25 fine for axle overweight wholly inadequate. The action shocked the trucking industry, which lobbied for weight parity with other states. The governor questioned submitting the $1,700,000,000 highway system to increased weights amid critically short highway materials.