Aux Sable Liquid Products v. Murphy

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns to what degree the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (“STAA”), which governs access to and from the federal Interstate system, preempts local weight restrictions on bordering roads. Since 2001, loaded trucks leaving a propane loading facility (“the Terminal”) owned by Plaintiff Aux Sable Liquid Products reached Interstate 57 (“I-57”) via Ridgeland Avenue in Monee Township, Illinois. In 2006, the Monee Township Highway Commissioner, in order to protect Ridgeland Avenue from damage, limited the truck weight on the road to 14 tons, a weight less than…