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Truckers oppose * USA - Nevada port-of-entry plan
Carson City,NEV,USA -The Deseret News/Associated Press, by Amanda Fehd -30 April 2007: -- Nevada's trucking industry is fighting a plan to let private companies build and profit from high-tech ports of entry that would use X-ray machines to scan trucks for contraband and human smuggling... The bill has support from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the Nevada Highway Patrol. A new amendment that allows for the private financing persuaded NDOT to switch its original opposition to the bill to a neutral stance... The change allows NDOT to form contracts for operating the ports and charge "commercial motor vehicles a fee to cover all the costs related to the development, financing, construction, maintenance, management and operations" of the ports... The Nevada Motor Transport Association opposes the bill. The group's government affairs director, Ronald Levine, said the scanners "will not do the job and will not stop anything." He said criminals will just take other routes...
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