Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, January 14, 1978, Image 14

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Somehow, the animals at the Farm Show never had any difficulties finding a
place to sit down. Visitors weren’t as lucky.
Andersons
Truck
HARRISBURG - Re{?.
Noah W. Wenger, R-
Lancaster, urges Penn
sylvania truck owners to im
mediately become familiar
with the state’s new laws on
truck weights in order to
avoid costly fines and
dangerous driving situa
tions.
Wenger said he can pro
- vide truck owners with a
brochure entitled “Is Your
Truck Weight Legal?” He
said owners can receive the
namphlet by writing him,
-Rep. Wenger, P.O. Box 109,
House of Representatives,
Main Capitol Building, Har
risburg, Pa. 17120.
The Pennsylvania State
Police and Department of
Transportation are
distributing brochures to the
trucking industry and are
making them available at
the interstate highway road
side rests and County
maintenance buildings.
“This pamphlet provides
an outline of weight limits
established in the new vehi
cle code which took effect on
July 1,1977,” Wenger said.
“PennDOT and the State
Pblice initiated a
cooperative truck-weight en
forcement program
throughout the Com
monwealth on August 29,
1977.
“There has been a network
of permanent scales and
mobile teams of State Police
and certified technicians set
upstate-wide.
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-Atlantic
BREEDERS COOPERATIVE
LIVESTOCK
SERVICES
Member - NAL Affiliated Breeders
24-Hour Toll-Free Phones for Service:
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Pennsylvania 800-732-0391 Del. & Md. 800-233-0216
owners called to attention
utilized in the -aware of most limits, may
program will be the most not realize. It includes a
modern and efficient in die' detailed weight and fine
United States, permitting a schedule for violations of
minimum-of “down time” gross weight restrictions.”
for truckers throughout the Wenger said the goal of the
weighing process. , strict enforcement of the
new weight limits for trucks
is to make the highways
safer for all motorists and
help reduce -highway
maintenance costs.
“This brochure contains
answers to many questions
for which even professional
truckers, who are basically