The new transporting weight of 120 thousand pounds is the combination of both truck and cargo. According to Scott Manning, Director of Strategic Communications for the Indiana Department of Transportation, one of the agency’s biggest concerns with this law was possible road damage. Trucks wanting to haul overweight divisible loads will be required additional axle components to balance the weight evenly. “Equally distributing the weight is really to making sure you don’t put too much stress on a single axle load. When driving on pavements or roads, that helps make sure we don’t sustain damage,” Manning said. If a truck were to exceed the weight allowed on a road, it would be required to find an alternate route.