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Archive Home > 2007 > August > 04 > Collapse reinforces need to monitor truck weight

Collapse reinforces need to monitor truck weight

Region's enforcers catch some, not all, violators

By Christopher Stollar / The Bulletin
August 4, 2007

MADRAS — The 72-foot monster rolled up to truck weight enforcer Ben Field, slowing to about 3 mph as the vehicle crossed his weight sensor.

“Forty-three hundred pounds,” Field told the truck’s driver, Jeff Every, who stopped before heading north on U.S.....

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