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TRUCKERS' COMPLAIN * USA - Hampton Roads, VA, port drivers want safer chassis, containers
A trucker recently spent six hours shuttling unsafe containers from inspection lines to port maintenance shops – burning precious earning time because of faulty equipment owned by shipping lines but managed by port systems
Hampton Roads, VA,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -June 10, 2008: -- ... “It took me six hours of work to recover a $40 drayage fee,” trucker Paul Yurkovac said... The day highlighted a growing problem for truckers at many ports: Holes in containers and chassis with bad brakes and tires routinely send drivers from inspection line to maintenance line, all for work on equipment owned by private companies but overseen by port officials... Yurkovac, an owner-operator who works everyday at the harbor at Hampton Roads, VA, is an OOIDA member and a committee member of the recently formed Owner-Operator Coalition of Virginia... The Coalition is working to address its members’ chief concern: that the port’s system of relying on professional drivers to move and inspect port chassis and port containers is unsafe, is inefficient, and forces the drivers to work for no pay... “We need to let them know we’re taking a very firm stance on this,” Yurkovac said. “Ethically, it’s wrong. No Virginian should have to do free labor on state-owned property.”...
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