The University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies is holding free workshops for the next eight months on truck weight education.
The workshops, which will be held in various Minnesota cities, will address concerns from state, county, city and township transportation authorities regarding road damage from heavy trucks.
Information about road weights during various times of the year, including the winter load increase and spring load restrictions will be available to attendees.
This workshop is intended for 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.
The program promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. The goal is to “provide information and explanations to attendees on how to haul the most legal weight without violating the truck-weight laws,” according to a media release.
This program will be presented by Alexandria Technical and Community College.
The free workshops are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the specified location on each of the dates listed below (registration begins at 8:30 a.m. each day):
• Aug. 29 — East Grand Forks
• Sept. 12 — Glencoe
• Oct. 3 — Grand Rapids
• Oct. 24 — Pipestone
• Jan. 16, 2013 — Detroit Lakes
• Jan. 23 — Arden Hills
• Jan. 30 — Alexandria
• Feb. 7 — Mankato
• Feb. 13 — St. Cloud
• March 20 — Bloomington
• March 27 — Duluth
• April 3 — Marshall
• April 10 — Thief River Falls
• April 17 — Rochester
• April 24 — Alexandria
For more information or to register, visit the workshop website at http://www.mnltap.umn.edu/training/topic/customized/truck-weight/. Registration can be done online, by mail or fax. The registration contact is Continuing Professional Education, University of Minnesota, cceinfo@umn.edu, 612-625-2900.
For questions, please contact course instructor Greg Hayes at 218-684-1764 orGAHayes@gmail.com.
