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Minnesota LTAP

Center for Transportation Studies

University of Minnesota

200 Transportation & Safety Building

511 Washington Ave SE

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-626-1077

Fax: 612-625-6381

E-mail: mnltap@umn.edu

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Minnesota Truck-Weight Compliance Program

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Minnesota Truck-Weight Compliance Training

Road damage from overweight vehicles is a growing concern of state, county, city, and township transportation authorities. This training promotes voluntary compliance to significantly reduce the damage to public roads and highways—and the resulting repairs and expense—caused by overweight vehicles.

This training has been updated to reflect 2009 truck-weight legislative changes including the new raw- or unprocessed-agricultural-permit weight increase.

Dates & Locations

This workshop is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (registration begins at 8:30 a.m.) at the specified location on each of the dates listed below:

  • Wednesday, January 13, 2010 — Mn/DOT District 4A, 1000 Highway 10W, Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
  • Wednesday, January 20, 2010 — Mn/DOT District 6B, 1010 21st Avenue NW, Owatonna, MN 55060
  • Wednesday, January 27, 2010 — Mn/DOT Training Center, 1900 West County Road I, Arden Hills, MN 55126
  • Wednesday, February 17, 2010 — Best Western Americanna, 520 Highway 10 South, St. Cloud, MN 55604
  • Wednesday, February 24, 2010 — Polk County Human Services Center, 1424 Central Avenue NE, East Grand Forks, MN 56721
  • Wednesday, March 10, 2010 — Lyon County Law Enforcement Center, 611 West Main Street, Marshall, MN 56268
  • Friday, March 12, 2010 — Alexandria Technical College, 1601 Jefferson Street, Alexandria, MN 56308
  • Wednesday, March 24, 2010 — City of Bloomington, 1700 West 98th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431
  • Thursday, March 25, 2010 — Holiday Inn , 101 East Main Street, Mankato, MN 56001
  • Wednesday, April 7, 2010 — Mn/DOT District 1A, 1123 Mesaba Avnue, Duluth, MN 55811
  • Wednesday, April 14, 2010 — Alexandria Technical College, 1601 Jefferson Street, Alexandria, MN 56308
  • Wednesday, April 21, 2010 — Mn/DOT District 6, 2900 - 48th Street NW, Rochester, MN 55901

Registration

Registration of more than three members from the same company requires instructor approval (Greg Hayes at 218-684-1764 or GAHayes@gmail.com).

Register online:

Register by mail or fax: Download registration form (224 KB PDF)

Registration Contact: College of Continuing Education, 20 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108-6069, cceconf2@umn.edu, 612-624-4754 (phone), 612-624-5359 (fax)

Cost: None. This workshop includes coffee breaks and program materials. Registrants are on their own for lunch.

Register online no later than one week prior to the program. Pre-registration allows us to contact you if the workshop must be postponed due to weather or other factors. Disability accommodations will be provided upon request.

Who Should Attend

Trucking entities who want to load to the maximum legal weight possible. Scale operators, farm truck owners and operators, aggregate haulers, truck manufacturers who configure truck axles and tires, township and county authorities who influence truck route weights, any company representative who influences the purchase or alteration of new trucks, out-of-state companies who need to understand and comply with Minnesota's legal weight limits, and truck driving students.

Please Note: This is not a “permitting” class for those who haul over-dimensional or overweight equipment that requires an oversize permit from either the state or county agencies. The class does cover the permit requirement for harvest and timber commodities and the 10 percent winter-load-increase (WLI) permit for trucks operating on Interstate highways.

Topics Covered

Course Instructors

Greg A. Hayes, who developed and coordinates the course, is a retired Minnesota State Patrol lieutenant. During the last 16 years of his career, Greg supervised the commercial vehicle enforcement in northwestern Minnesota.

Keith Williamson, co- instructor, is also a retired Minnesota State Patrol trooper, who, in addition to working in the commercial vehicle district, is a commercial vehicle mandatory inspection recertification instructor.

For questions regarding course content, please contact course instructor Greg Hayes at 218-684-1764 or GAHayes@gmail.com.

Credit

Sponsors

This program is funded by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT), in cooperation with Alexandria Technical College and the University of Minnesota.