WEATHER TROUBLES * USA - Truckers delayed due to winter weather
Mt. Vernon,VA,USA -The Mr. Vernon Register News, by VANESSA WELCH-30 January 2009: --Recent conditions in weather have caused an increase in traffic at area travel centers while truck drivers wait until interstates are safer for traveling...Frank Szarek ofHucks Travel Centermanagement said, “It’s hard to get someone out here to clear all the snow, and it was packed here. Everybody was off the road and I think it staggered the trucking industry a little”...Szareksaid this was the most traffic he has ever seen on the west side of town due to semis exiting off I-57 and I-64...Many truck drivers waited out conditions atHucks Travel Center, TA Travel Center, Pilot Travel Center and the Lowe’s parking lot...According toSzarek, traffic was congested from traffic lights in that area to Interstate entrances...(Photo by VANESSA WELCH/REGISTER-NEWS - Truck drivers stop at Pilot Travel Center to refuel, clean windows and examine their semis before continuing to their destinations. During the past week, an increase in drivers were delayed and rested in Mt. Vernon until driving conditions were not as hazardous)
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