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Oct 19, 2008

OPPOSITION * Australia - Victorian councils want no truck with B-triple monsters

Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -The Age, by Clay Lucas -October 20, 2008: -- Councils across Victoria do not want giant B-triple trucks rumbling through streets or small country towns... Documents leaked to Opposition transport spokesman Terry Mulder in August showed the Government had been secretly investigating the use of B-triples since January... The trucks would be allowed to run on CityLink and many other main commuter routes... A Department of Transport map showed the routes B-triples would take through Melbourne, and around Victoria, including EastLink, CityLink and the West Gate Freeway... Mr Mulder said the B-triple issue had worried councils because there had been "a total lack of consultation" by the State Government...

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Apr 30, 2007

Truckers oppose * USA - Nevada port-of-entry plan

Carson City,NEV,USA -The Deseret News/Associated Press, by Amanda Fehd -30 April 2007: -- Nevada's trucking industry is fighting a plan to let private companies build and profit from high-tech ports of entry that would use X-ray machines to scan trucks for contraband and human smuggling... The bill has support from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the Nevada Highway Patrol. A new amendment that allows for the private financing persuaded NDOT to switch its original opposition to the bill to a neutral stance... The change allows NDOT to form contracts for operating the ports and charge "commercial motor vehicles a fee to cover all the costs related to the development, financing, construction, maintenance, management and operations" of the ports... The Nevada Motor Transport Association opposes the bill. The group's government affairs director, Ronald Levine, said the scanners "will not do the job and will not stop anything." He said criminals will just take other routes...

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Feb 7, 2007

Opposition to State Truck Plan * USA - Borough Council to continue honing

Princeton,NJ,USA -The Princeton Packet, by Courtney Gross -6 Feb 2007: -- Outlining what could be the finishing touches to the organized opposition against trucking regulations proposed by the state, the Princeton Borough Council is scheduled to discuss further comments on the inclusion of Route 206 and Route 27 in the New Jersey Trucking Access Network at its meeting tonight... The regulations, which have garnered considerable opposition from Princeton Borough and Princeton Township officials as well as scores of residents, would allow 102-inch-wide trucks and double-trailer rigs to use the popular Princeton roadways when en route to a destination or attempting to follow the most direct route to the next location... (Photo: Princeton College of New Jersey )

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