North Dakota Strategic Freight Analysis Truck Size and Weight Issues in North Dakota

This study analyzes the economic impacts of load limits and the benefits of establishing a statewide program to coordinate the administration of load limits. The study reported truck size and weight regulations as well as state permitting policies and costs for various types of permits in North Dakota. The focus is on intrastate motor carrier movements of freight from farm to market, county to county, or originating in North Dakota and moving out of the state. Case studies provide a cost analysis approach to evaluate concerns about impediments to freight flow, including county road restrictions and seasonal load restrictions. An evaluation of the economic impacts of the elimination of seasonal restrictions on higher truck traffic or interregional corridor routes within the state are presented.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=580
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052

  North Dakota Department of Transportation

  Bismarck, ND  United States  58505
• Authors:
  • Berwick, Mark
  • Lofgren, Mark
• Publication Date: 2007-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 95p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Case studies; Costs; Economic impacts; Freight transportation; Load limits; Oversize loads; Permits; Size and weight regulations; Truck traffic; Trucks; Vehicle size; Vehicle weight
• Geographic Terms: North Dakota
• Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01677614
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DP-185
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 13 2018 9:44AM