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Canadian Trucking Firm to Appeal Fine

Associated Press|November 5, 2007
PennsylvaniaCanadaGeneral

A Canadian trucking company that was issued $84,295 in citations by state police last week plans to appeal, saying it was penalized over a technicality and has never had any problems transporting oversized loads in Pennsylvania. ...The trucks were carrying turbines to a windmill farm outside Meyersdale, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Police said all eight loads were found to be too heavy, too tall and too wide to be traveling without the permits.


PITTSBURGH - A Canadian trucking company that was issued $84,295 in citations by state police last week plans to appeal, saying it was penalized over a technicality and has never had any problems transporting oversized loads in Pennsylvania.

On Thursday, state police issued 50 citations to eight trucks owned by Transport Bellemare International Inc. after troopers said the Quebec company's rigs transported oversized loads without proper permits on a winding two-lane road in Somerset County.

The trucks were carrying turbines to a windmill farm outside Meyersdale, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Police said all eight loads were found to be too heavy, too tall and too wide to be traveling without the permits.

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PITTSBURGH - A Canadian trucking company that was issued $84,295 in citations by state police last week plans to appeal, saying it was penalized over a technicality and has never had any problems transporting oversized loads in Pennsylvania.

On Thursday, state police issued 50 citations to eight trucks owned by Transport Bellemare International Inc. after troopers said the Quebec company's rigs transported oversized loads without proper permits on a winding two-lane road in Somerset County.

The trucks were carrying turbines to a windmill farm outside Meyersdale, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Police said all eight loads were found to be too heavy, too tall and too wide to be traveling without the permits.

"All trucks were carrying permits showing the correct dimensions and weight," company president Jean-Luc Bellemare told The Associated Press on Monday. "On Thursday, we were carrying valid permits."

The citations were issued because "of a technicality over a serial number," Bellemare said. "At no time were we traveling on local roads without permits."

The company plans to deliver seven more components to the windmill farm over the next two weeks, he said.

 


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