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TRUCKING NEWS * USA - Long Beach day-pass OKed
OOIDA efforts pay off
Long Beach,CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine -April 23, 2009: -- The Port of Long Beach approved a day-pass provision Monday, April 20, that will allow long-haulers to visit the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach complex 24 times annually. Drivers will need one pass per visit, and each pass will cost $30... The day-pass allows long-haul truckers to avoid a lengthy and expensive process to become port concessionaires as part of each port’s Clean Trucks Program. The Port of Los Angeles concessionaire program requires motor carriers to pay $2,500 annually, in addition to $100 per truck. By 2012, all trucks will be banned from the ports unless approved as concessionaires, an application process that includes weighting carriers by total financial assets and other considerations... The ports are working to make day-pass purchases available online to make the process smooth when long-haul drivers arrive at port gates... Several ports in the Pacific Northwest, and some on the East Coast, have begun considering L.A.-style port programs that could pose problems for long-haul truckers. Laura O’Neill, OOIDA government affairs counsel said it’s unclear how other environmentally based port programs will proceed, but said OOIDA will be closely watching... (Photo from daylife.com: Trucks cross the Vincent Thomas Bridge at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles)
* VDOT reviews two-hour rule at rest areas after hearing truckers’ input
VA,USA -Land Line Magazine -April 23, 2009: -- Even before the Virginia Department of Transportation announced its rest area closure plan in February, truckers had been troubled by the state’s two-hour maximum parking rule at rest areas... However, this rule may soon change as VDOT reviews its restrictive time limit, which doesn’t allow truckers to take their full 10-hour mandatory breaks... VDOT Chief of Communications Jeff Caldwell told the agency is taking a “serious look” at revising its two-hour rule... This is good news for OOIDA members who run through the state. Several have been ticketed by the Virginia State Police in recent months for exceeding the two-hour rule because they couldn’t find other long-term parking options to pull off and rest...Labels: trucking news
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