Weight Gain for Trucks Unlikely

December 27, 1999 10:01 AM, EST

Don't expect Congress to act on proposals to increase truck sizes and weights in 2000, Rep. Nick J. Rahall II said.

The senior Democrat on the House Surface Transportation Subcommittee made the blunt prediction in a Dec. 17 speech to transportation executives in Washington, D.C.

"No" was Rahall's response to a question about whether there would be any action on productivity legislation such as a proposal to increase the federal maximum truck weight from 80,000 pounds to 97,000 pounds.

"I can't see that issue moving as stand-alone legislation," he said. "It's controversial."

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