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Larger Loads Allowed on Iowa Roads

October 9, 2000 By admin

Iowa farmers now have permission to haul larger loads of grain on Iowahighways. Governor Tom Vilsack has raised the weight limit to 90-thousandpounds for grain trucks on Iowa’s highways. Ray Hansen of the Iowa CornGrowers Association says farmers will be able to haul about 170 MORE bushelsper semi-load. Hansen says it’ll be a time-saver for farmers and that somefarmers who have completed their harvesting now have to shift corn and beansfrom one storage facility to another. Governor Tom Vilsack’s order does NOTallow over-sized trucks on the Interstates and all weight restrictions forbridges are unchanged.

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