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Bill Seeks to Address Truck Weight Problem

U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., have re-introduced bipartisan legislation to address a problem faced by a number of farmers and ranchers around the country. When producers drive their goods between two states that do not have a reciprocity agreement for farm truck weights they are exceeding an unnecessarily low federal weight definition for commercial motor vehicles and are being ticketed and fined.