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52 C H A P T E R 5 5.1 Identifying Challenges OSOW shippers and carriers face a number of common challenges when moving OSOW loads across multiple jurisdictions. Most of these challenges are related to truck permitting and other roadway transportation issues.
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Common Challenges of Multi-State Oversize/Overweight Transportation 53 The conceptual map (Figure 5-3) highlights the extent of the inconsistencies in OSOW regulations and permitting requirements across the United States, based on an index representing a combination of OSOW regulations, operational restrictions, and permitting requirements.
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54 Multi-State, Multimodal, Oversize/Overweight Transportation requirements are shown as sharing a border with a low-friction ranking. Appendix C provides an overview of how the border friction rankings were established.
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Common Challenges of Multi-State Oversize/Overweight Transportation 55 instantaneously, but the same state may require many weeks to issue a superload permit. Additional analyses are needed as the size and weight of OSOW loads increase.
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56 Multi-State, Multimodal, Oversize/Overweight Transportation recommendation from the outreach session focused on the organization, rather than the availability, of information. Similarly, another respondent at the outreach session noted that it was difficult to stay informed as rules changed and that the permit manuals did not always include the most recent changes.
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Common Challenges of Multi-State Oversize/Overweight Transportation 57 movements, delaying loads for multiple days. In each of these cases, there is the potential to alter the routes of an OSOW load, which could already be transiting the state.
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58 Multi-State, Multimodal, Oversize/Overweight Transportation • Harmonization. This is generally cited as important and focuses on day versus night moves between bordering states.
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Common Challenges of Multi-State Oversize/Overweight Transportation 59 5.3.2 Local Jurisdictions, Infrastructure, and OSOW In addition to the difficulty that OSOW carriers reported in getting local OSOW permits, local infrastructure investment decisions can significantly affect the operation of OSOW loads. For example, the Port of Milwaukee in Wisconsin is surrounded by urban development, complicating the port's ability to serve as an OSOW access point to the Great Lakes.
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60 Multi-State, Multimodal, Oversize/Overweight Transportation Operational restrictions could nominally or significantly affect the costs of an OSOW cargo shipment. For example, neighboring states may have different requirements on the signs or flags a load must display when operating.
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Common Challenges of Multi-State Oversize/Overweight Transportation 61 of a move, regulations may require that the police accompany the load for the entirety of its trip within the jurisdiction. From an operational perspective, carriers have to work around the hours police work, plan with district offices, and plan for exchanges at jurisdictional boundaries.
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62 Multi-State, Multimodal, Oversize/Overweight Transportation 5.4.2 Hours of Travel States and local jurisdictions specify the hours of travel or the time of day that an OSOW load is allowed to move. Hours of travel vary between states and depend on the size of the load and the route.
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Common Challenges of Multi-State Oversize/Overweight Transportation 63 Load 2 hours of travel from Pennsylvania to Colorado. Overall, Load 1 takes twice as much time as Load 2 to travel from the same origin to the same destination.
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64 Multi-State, Multimodal, Oversize/Overweight Transportation 5.4.4 Utilities Utilities cause delay in the planning and operation of OSOW loads. On the planning side, utilities have to be contracted far in advance of the load, requiring substantial lead time to determine who owns the low line, who to contact to get a lift truck to raise the line, and finally scheduling when the lift truck will be in place to assist the load.
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