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The limit on truck size isn't because of human driving capacity, it's because road damage scales as the fourth power of axle weight. Trucks already do the vast majority of damage to our infrastructure, increasing the weight more would literally take down some older bridges.


I was referring to more trailers like this: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/macneil/2004/ma...

That doesn't require an increase in axle weight


I seem to recall hearing that some states have restrictions on trailer count. Presumably due to road safety issues.




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