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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.
Registration
- Register online:
- October 7, 2008—Mn/DOT Training Center, 1900 West County Rd I, Shoreview, MN 55126
- October 14, 2008—Mn/DOT - District 6, 3920 Highway 2 West, Bemidji, MN 56601
- October 21, 2008—Alexandria Technical College, 1601 Jefferson Street, Alexandria, MN 56308
- October 28, 2008—Northland Technical College, 2022 Central Avenue NE, Room 315, East Grand Forks, MN 56721
- Register by mail:
- Download registration form (112 KB PDF)
- Mail to CCE Information Center, University of Minnesota, 20 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108-6069
- Register by fax:
- Download registration form (112 KB PDF)
- Fax to 612-624-5359
Register online no later than one week prior to the program. Preregistration allows us to contact you if the workshop must be postponed due to weather or other factors. Disability accommodations will be provided upon request.
Topics Covered
- An update of road weight limits and differences between the state and local systems
- Laws governing gross weights, axle weights, tire weights, road-restriction weights, and seasonally increased (winter and harvest) weights
- Road damage issues: how overweight trucks cost us all
- Overweight truck issues go beyond just gross and axle weights
- Classroom exercises to help you identify concerns in your own trucks
- What's different between axle spacing? Do I have the right tires for the weight?
- Issues to consider when purchasing a new truck, or altering a current truck
- Professional, easy-to-understand "take-home" materials to assist you with your own configurations and options
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.
Credit
- 1.0 Roads Scholar Program elective credit
- To the best of our knowledge, this course/activity meets the continuing education requirements for 6.0 PDHs as outlined in Minnesota Statute 326.107. More information concerning continuing education for professionals is online at www.aelslagid.state.mn.us.
Fee
None. This program is funded by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT), in cooperation with Northland Community and Technical College of Thief River Falls and East Grand Forks, and the University of Minnesota.
Workshop Schedule
Registration: 8:30 a.m.
Class hours: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.