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The Coalition Against Bigger Trucks L.L.C. (CABT) opposes efforts at all levels of government to make trucks longer and heavier. CABT includes public citizen organizations, state and local law enforcement agencies, senior citizens, highway safety, environmental and business groups. CABT opposes bigger trucks because they raise serious safety, infrastructure, environmental and economic concerns. In order to protect public safety, the nation's infrastructure and the environment, CABT has embarked on a grass roots campaign to fight the efforts of bigger truck proponents to increase truck lengths and weights.

Longer, heavier trucks present serious safety problems to the motoring public. Grim statistics support this contention: Each year, approximately 5,000 people are killed in truck-related crashes and over 100,000 are injured. Today, almost all of these trucks are conventional, single trailer trucks or "18 wheelers." Now, bigger truck proponents want to place even bigger trucks on the road -- including triple and long double longer combination vehicles (LCVs) -- and heavy single tractor trailers weighing 100,000 pounds or more.

Bigger trucks also translate into greater damage to bridges and roads -- and it will be the average taxpayer, not the trucking industry, who pays the bill for repairs and maintenance. With tightening budgets at the federal, state and local levels of government, additional resources for highway maintenance and bridge reconstruction will be hard to obtain. In addition, the inevitable result of bigger trucks will be more pollution, higher taxes, more congestion, and an unbalanced freight transportation system.

There is no other more powerful way to influence Congress than grass roots. No matter how polished the lobbyist or how slick the presentation, the best advocate, by far, is a constituent. CABT is dedicated to ensuring that our elected leaders remain aware of -- and responsive to -- the vast grass roots opposition to bigger more dangerous trucks.

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