Project Accounting. Costpoint was designed to meet the needs of government contractors for accounting. Specifically, government contractors, who have regulations regarding executive compensation, unallowable costs, and requirements of indirect labor that do not effect non-government contractors.
In allowing the longer truck combinations, what would take two 16.5 m (54 ft) semi-trailer trucks and one 18.75 m (62 ft) truck and trailer to haul on the continent now could be handled by just two 25.25 m trucks â greatly reducing overall costs and emissions.
In the United Kingdom, the maximum permitted gross weight of a semi-trailer truck, without the use of a Special Type General Order (STGO), is 44,000 kg (97,000 lb), which is the second heaviest permitted legal weight for a single semi-trailer truck in the world (50,000 kg (110,000 lb) is allowed in the Netherlands).