{"id":753,"date":"2017-04-25T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/04\/25\/lege-trend-heavier-loads-on-trucks-5-reasons-industry-supports-it\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T18:49:00","slug":"lege-trend-heavier-loads-on-trucks-5-reasons-industry-supports-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-heavier-loads-on-trucks-5-reasons-industry-supports-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend. Heavier Loads on Trucks. 5 Reasons Industry Supports it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SB 1524 allows for heavier loads on big trucks when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$5000 annual permit is purchased<\/li>\n<li>traveling on a dwsignated corridor<\/li>\n<li>within 30 miles of a port of entry\/border<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporters say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>anticipated 500,000 TEU increase in annual containerized exports of plastic resin<\/li>\n<li>$100 Billion in new or expanded plant capacity along Texas coast<\/li>\n<li>the rise in plastic resin is due to cheap natural gas feedstock<\/li>\n<li>American Chemistry COuncil warned that without allowing for larger loads would harm the economic advantages\u00a0of the Gulf Coast<\/li>\n<li>Other states on the gulf provide for the same 100,000 load limit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.tx.us\/BillLookup\/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&amp;Bill=SB1524\">SB 1524 | Texas | 2017\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joc.com\/breakbulk\/texas-moves-raise-truck-weight-limits-resins-other-cargo_20170424.html\">JOC |\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joc.com\/\" style=\"color:rgb(102,0,153);text-decoration:none;\">Container shipping and trade news and analysis<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joc.com\/breakbulk\/texas-moves-raise-truck-weight-limits-resins-other-cargo_20170424.html\">|\u00a0Texas moves to raise truck weight limits for resins, other cargo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SB 1524 allows for heavier loads on big trucks when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$5000 annual permit is purchased<\/li>\n<li>traveling on a dwsignated corridor<\/li>\n<li>within 30 miles of a port of entry\/border<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporters say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>anticipated 500,000 TEU increase in annual containerized exports of plastic resin<\/li>\n<li>$100 Billion in new or expanded plant capacity along Texas coast<\/li>\n<li>the rise in plastic resin is due to cheap natural gas feedstock<\/li>\n<li>American Chemistry COuncil warned that without allowing for larger loads would harm the economic\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,17,23,5,34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislation","category-motor-vehicles","category-ports","category-roads","category-transportation-safety","category-trucking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}