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TRUCKERS FIGHT * USA & Canada - OOIDA and others fight truck restrictions on NY roads
Trucking associations, industries and business groups have banded together to fight a proposal that would ban trucks on seven upstate New York routes
New York,NY,USA -Land Line Magazine -July 22, 2009: -- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and more than 20 other business and industry associations have signed on to endorse a letter from the New York State Motor Truck Association urging Gov. David Paterson not to move forward with the “Reasonable Access Highway Regulation”... When tolls increased on in May 2005, a task force of upstate residents put pressure on lawmakers and the New York Department of Transportation to deal with an increased number of New York City trash haulers on local roadways... NYDOT brought the proposal forward in 2008, and it now sits on Paterson’s desk for consideration... OOIDA leadership says the proposal lumps trucking operations together in a negative light and takes away alternatives to the tolled Thruway... (Picture from albanyaerialphotos: NY's Thruway)
* Canada - Ice road trucker gets frosty treatment
Yellowknife,NWT,CAN -Today's Trucking -21 July 2009: -- He’s made his reputation hauling goods across Canada’s frozen north and he’s certified to inspect tankers... But when one of his employees misread a number on the side of a tank, Alan Scraba had no less than 15 dangerous goods charges thrown at him... According to a report in the local media, Scraba, the owner of ARS Trucking and Welding, received a ticket in February 2009, citing him with 15 violations relating to an inspection from a Department of Transportation inspector – two years earlier... Scraba ended up pleading guilty to one of the charges of transporting fuel in an improper fuel container and paying a $3,000 fine.The Crown withdrew the other charges... And all that happened at that time was an employee misread a gauge on a tank and he pressurized it for 10 minutes instead of the requisite 30 when he was testing it for leaks... (Picture from roadtransport/big-lorry-blog: DAF aid) 
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