Summit,CO,USA -The Summit Daily News, by Alex Miller -December 18, 2009: ... Fifth Judicial District Attorney, Mark Hurlbert, said Friday his office is adding an additional penalty. Along with fines of $500 or $1,000, the DA will add a charge of “failing to obey a traffic control device,” which would deduct four points from a trucker's license... Greg Fulton, president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association representing truckers, said he was shocked to hear about it... As it stands now, Hurlbert said, chain-law non-compliance fines are often paid by the trucking company, not the individual trucker, which has apparently provided little in the way of deterrence. The new charge that carries a point penalty will hopefully do more, Hurlbert said... But Fulton said drivers usually do pay their own fines. He added that, when the State Legislature created the chain-law violation fines last year, there was discussion about assessing points. But that, he said, would only target Colorado truckers, and so the idea was scrapped... (Photo from tinypic)
Dec 20, 2009
Penalties for Truckers * USA - Summit DA adds who don't chain up
Saying existing fines don't do enough to penalize truckers for not chaining up during snowstorms
Summit,CO,USA -The Summit Daily News, by Alex Miller -December 18, 2009: ... Fifth Judicial District Attorney, Mark Hurlbert, said Friday his office is adding an additional penalty. Along with fines of $500 or $1,000, the DA will add a charge of “failing to obey a traffic control device,” which would deduct four points from a trucker's license... Greg Fulton, president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association representing truckers, said he was shocked to hear about it... As it stands now, Hurlbert said, chain-law non-compliance fines are often paid by the trucking company, not the individual trucker, which has apparently provided little in the way of deterrence. The new charge that carries a point penalty will hopefully do more, Hurlbert said... But Fulton said drivers usually do pay their own fines. He added that, when the State Legislature created the chain-law violation fines last year, there was discussion about assessing points. But that, he said, would only target Colorado truckers, and so the idea was scrapped... (Photo from tinypic)
Summit,CO,USA -The Summit Daily News, by Alex Miller -December 18, 2009: ... Fifth Judicial District Attorney, Mark Hurlbert, said Friday his office is adding an additional penalty. Along with fines of $500 or $1,000, the DA will add a charge of “failing to obey a traffic control device,” which would deduct four points from a trucker's license... Greg Fulton, president of the Colorado Motor Carriers Association representing truckers, said he was shocked to hear about it... As it stands now, Hurlbert said, chain-law non-compliance fines are often paid by the trucking company, not the individual trucker, which has apparently provided little in the way of deterrence. The new charge that carries a point penalty will hopefully do more, Hurlbert said... But Fulton said drivers usually do pay their own fines. He added that, when the State Legislature created the chain-law violation fines last year, there was discussion about assessing points. But that, he said, would only target Colorado truckers, and so the idea was scrapped... (Photo from tinypic)
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