Bama-magic, or lack thereof

Jan 12, 2009

Updated Dec 14, 2009

Alabama state troopers teamed up with over-the-road truckers in the state in December to enforce highway laws. According to perennial results in Overdrive‘s Highway Report Card survey, the latest out this month on p. 24 of the magazine, the effort was a long time coming. Alabama, with only a single full-service scale house (on I-20 westbound near the Georgia border, though there’s a smaller one on I-10 near Mobile) and a small number of troopers compared to many states, has placed first in the Weakest Tr href=”http://digg.com/submit”>Digg

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