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BILL & LAWS * USA
* Oregon: Several new laws of interest to truckers in
OR,USA -The Associated Press/ Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO), by Keith Goble -August 14, 2007: -- One new law is an attempt to clean up old diesel engines in the state. It takes effect in late September... Trucks, buses, construction equipment and farm vehicles will get help from the state to replace and retrofit pre-2007 diesel engines and reduce idling... Statewide, the annual cost in health care, lost work days, reduced visibility and other indirect costs associated with diesel fumes is $2 billion, reported... A separate new law includes a provision that gets tough with those driving truck who don’t heed their out-of-service orders. It increases the minimum and maximum penalty for violating OOS orders. It also provides for the reinstatement of a “lifetime suspension” of a commercial driver’s license after 10 years... Another new law is intended to help aspiring truck drivers learn the ropes. The program is subject to a grant agreement that states the college in Oregon City will commit to producing 50 truck drivers within the funding allowed... Other new laws of interest include a measure that provides $100 million in lottery funds for transportation projects other than highways... One other new law that will take effect at the first of the year allows the Oregon Department of Transportation to use photo radar in certain construction work zones. The use of speed radar is prohibited on interstate highways...
* Michigan - Bills seek to curb drunken drivers
MICH,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO) -August 14, 2007: -- A pair of bills making their way through the Michigan House are intended to make the state’s roadways safer by cracking down on extremely drunken drivers and repeat offenders... Reps. Dan Acciavatti, R-Chesterfield, and Marc Corriveau, D-Northville, have introduced a package that would require repeat offenders and drivers with a blood alcohol content, or BAC, higher than 0.15 percent to install breath-testing ignition interlocks on their vehicles for at least one year. The legal definition of drunken driving in the state is a reading of 0.08 percent or higher... The interlock is hooked up to the ignition of the vehicle. Once the device is installed, a driver must blow into a mouthpiece, which measures the amount of alcohol on a person’s breath. If the driver blows clean, the car will then start; if not, it won’t budge...
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