“Pennsylvania is no stranger to truck traffic, especially since we have major routes such as I-95, I-80 and I-79, which all experience a high amount of commercial truck traffic already. And Pennsylvania police departments are already stretched thin responding to accidents involving trucks that are not as heavy as 91,000 pounds.
Once you add more weight onto semi-trucks, police departments can expect crashes and injuries to climb. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) found that heavier trucks have 18% higher brake violations and more out-of-service violations. And in a separate study, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that trucks with out-of-service violations are 362% more likely to be involved in a crash.”