Beijing: Thousands of coal trucks and other vehicles jammed for miles on a northern China road in the latest of monster jams that have plagued the country.

State television broadcaster CCTV reported that about 10,000 trucks were stuck in the jam. The exact length of the gridlock was not clear but one of the worst stretches was a 75-mile (120-kilometre) span of highway between Inner Mongolia's Zhouzi and Xinghe counties, media reports said.

Trucks hauling coal from Inner Mongolia to industrial and urban centers on the coast are a major contributor to China's overloaded highway system. Most of the country's power plants are fueled by coal, vital for the booming economy that recently surpassed Japan's in size and now second only to that of the US.

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