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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA - VDOT Announces Rest Area Closures To Begin July 21
Truck Parking Hours Expanded At Open Rest Stops
Richmond,VA,USA -The Rock Bridge Weekly, by Patte Wood -July 6, 2009: -- The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) begins notifying motorists July 6 of impending changes at the rest areas slated for closure later this month. In June, the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) finalized plans to scale-back the number of rest areas VDOT maintains and operates from 42 to 23 as the agency grapples with a $2.6 billion revenue shortfall. Electronic message signs notifying visitors that the facilities will close on July 21 are being posted at each location beginning today and VDOT has updated its Web site and 511 traveler information system to reflect the closures... In an effort to mitigate the impacts of these facility closings on trucks, VDOT plans to implement changes to its rest area truck parking restrictions on July 21. Crews will remove a number of no parking signs at the remaining 23 rest areas and welcome centers to provide more than 225 legal truck parking spaces. This will offset the total number of truck parking spaces lost at the closed facilities. VDOT will also remove signs that had restricted vehicles to two-hour parking limits... (Photo from blog.rv.net/google earth: Flying j, auto rv-area)
* Golden State postpones controversial reefer regs
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -7 July 2009: -- Cross-border reefer carriers sweating over costly new truck refrigeration unit rules in California have been given a short compliance reprieve... Although Christmas time might get to be more expensive than usual for Cali-bound truckers, the California Air Resources Board has pushed back its deadline for the state's strict new emissions rules for reefer units, from July 16, 2009 to December 31... The state's Low-Emission TRU In-Use Performance Standards -- which the American Trucking Associations is challenging as being illegal -- will require emission-control retrofits on all refrigerated trucks for engine model years 2001 and older as well as trailers and containers. All units that enter California are affected... Out-of-state motor carriers aren't required to register by law, reportedly, but CARB is still urging them to do so... (Photo: National Carriers T600 Reefer I80WB)
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