* Maryland / USA - Baltimore Port extends clean-trucks program
-- The Port of Baltimore will combine a $200,000 U.S. Transportation Department grant with $300,000 in state funds to continue a program subsidizing replacement of old drayage trucks with newer, less-polluting vehicles... Owners and operators of short-haul drayage trucks will be provided with up to $20,000 to purchase new trucks that meet or exceed Environmental Protection Agency standards for 2007-model trucks... The funding is expected to support replacement of 22 older trucks. It will continue a program that has replaced about 100 older trucks in the port during the last several years. The money will be used to replace 1990 to 2003-model trucks that are in working condition and now operate in the port. The replaced trucks must be scrapped...
Baltimore, MAR, USA - J. O. C., by Joseph Bonney - Mar 31, 2015
* Ontario / Canada - Trucking companies rack up thousands in tolls due to improper Hwy 407 billing
-- Commercial vehicles travelling on the 407 Express Toll Route have been hit with thousands of dollars in overbilling and duplicate billing... The all-electronic toll highway, which stretches from Burlington to Pickering, has been driving up an accounting nightmare for some trucking and trailer companies... According to documents obtained by CTV, commercial vehicles travelling on Highway 407 have been tolled twice for the same trip... Tractor-trailers travelling on the 407 Express Toll route have been improperly billed for duplicate trips, but highway representatives say it's rare...
Toronto, ONT, CAN - CTV Toronto - March 30, 2015
* Ohio / USA - Lawmakers scrap highway speed limit increase
-- Ohio Lawmakers scrapped a proposal to raise highway speed limits to 75 mph that was opposed by the trucking industry... The proposed speed limit increase was originally part of the state’s transportation budget, but when a committee of Ohio House and Senate members convened to finalize the details of the budget, the changes had been removed... The Ohio Department of Transportation and trucking groups were concerned about the limit increase’s effect on highway safety. Speed limiters on trucks often keep them below 68 mph-- meaning that more passenger cars might attempt risky passing maneuvers resulting in more accidents... ODOT also noted that the highways were not designed for speeds greater than 70 mph, which could also pose safety risks...
OH, USA - TruckingInfo - 30 March 2015
* Oregon / USA - Truck traffic at Hwy 97 border increased 25% in 2014
-- Southern Oregon has a sign of economic recovery: Lots more big rigs at the weigh scales on Highway 97 near the border with California... The number of trucks going through the scales just north of the California border took a sharp jump in 2014, rising to 238,000, the Klamath Falls Herald and News reported. That was a 25 percent increase from the year before... Phil Grant, of the Oregon Department of Transportation, and his seven employees staff the two Highway 97 scales just north of the Oregon Institute of Technology...
(Photo by TrudyWilkerson, Getty Images/iStockphoto) -- Klamath Falls, ORE, USA - Associated Press/Statement Journal - March 30, 2015Labels: trucking industry news USA and Canada
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