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Show ALL TRUCKS SHOULD STOP. For the safety cf the traveling public some regulation must be provided governing trucks at railroad grade crossings. California enacted a law requiring trucks engaged in commercial transportation to stop before crossing, which is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough, as there is equal danger as regards private trucks which do not come under this law. As instancing the danger, only recently in California a through passenger train came near colliding with a concrete mixing machine which had broken down on the crossing. What would have happened hap-pened if the engineer had not seen it in time to stop his train which was traveling 50 miles an hour? In another instance recently a heavy truck wiih a trailer loaded with heavy machinery came in view at the crossing, the engineer applied brakes in emergency and barely avoided what would have been a disastrous collision. There must be some affective and. corrective regulations provided pro-vided to remove this danger, and the best way to do it is to make the law that applies to and regulates commercial trucks apply to and regulate all trucks and heavy vehicles, in all states. |