“As a supervisor in Albemarle County for the past 10 years, I have strongly opposed onopposed legislation in Congress aimed at allowing bigger tractor-trailers on roads for safety reasons, the impact on infrastructure and road congestion.
Truck safety is already trending in the wrong direction, and the last thing weneed need is to add even heavier trucks to the road. According to the National Traffic Administration Highway Safety Administration, from 2013 to 2023, the year with the most recently available data, truck crash fatalities rose by more than 35% in Virginia.”