{"id":5480,"date":"2016-10-06T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2016-10-06T21:58:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:58:54","slug":"drivers-take-heed-129000-pound-truck-routes-roadway-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/drivers-take-heed-129000-pound-truck-routes-roadway-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Take Heed &#8211; 129,000 Pound Truck Routes and Roadway Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">ITD Board to Hold Subcommittee Meeting in Pocatello on 10\/3\/2016<\/p>\n<p>The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is responsible for all highways on the State Highway System, such as interstates, state highways and U.S. routes. On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 1:30 p.m., the ITD Board will hold a subcommittee meeting in Pocatello at the ITD offices located at 5151 South 5<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> Avenue. This subcommittee meeting will discuss an application to allow trucks weighing up to 129,000 pounds on a section of U.S. 30 in eastern Idaho. Subcommittee meetings have been held in other parts of the state to review and analyze the request to allow the increased weight on non-interstate, state-maintained highways. The ITD and a subcommittee can reject or approve the requests for new routes. For more information regarding the request to increase truck weight, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/itd.idaho.gov\/129K\/default.htm\">http:\/\/itd.idaho.gov\/129K\/default.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">In 2003, the Idaho Legislature passed House Bill 395 to create a pilot project that would test the effect of legally increasing the weight of trucks from 105,500 pounds to 129,000 pounds on 16 specified routes in the State of Idaho. Later in 2005 and 2007, 19 routes were added. One of the tasks of this pilot project was to study this increased legal weight upon roadway safety.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/drivers-take-heed-129000-pound-truck-routes-roadway-safety\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Drivers Take Heed &#8211; 129,000 Pound Truck Routes and Roadway Safety\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITD Board to Hold Subcommittee Meeting in Pocatello on 10\/3\/2016 The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is responsible for all highways on the State Highway System, such as interstates, state highways and U.S. routes. 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