Security & Safety Briefs — June 22 - June 28
ust click here to register.
The Latest Headlines:
- Ga. Requiring Highway Watch Training for CDLs
- SoCal Port Shippers Will Need Booking Numbers
- La. Lowers I-10 Bridge Weight Limit to 70,000 Lbs.
- ATA Backs Conversion to Electronic Hazwaste Manifests
- SoCal Port Shippers Will Need Booking Numbers
Ga. Requiring Highway Watch Training for CDLs
Beginning Saturday all Georgia truck drivers who apply for or renew their Commercial Driver’s License must complete the Highway Watch Safety and Security program, television station WALB in Albany, Ga., reported on its Web site.he Highway Watch program is a joint project between American Trucking Associations and the Department of Homeland Security.
Classes can be taken at technical schools, and drivers can apply for the program online through the Georgia Motor Trucking Association. Transport Topics
SoCal Port Shippers Will Need Booking Numbers
Beginning Aug. 7, exporters delivering containers to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during peak hours will be required to claim their booking numbers before the containers arrive at port terminals.Export containers subject to a peak-hours traffic fee that arrive during peak hours of Monday through Friday, 3 a.m. to 6 p.m., will be turned around and encouraged to use the off-peak hours of operation.
Shippers will be responsible for paying the fee — not the trucking company or other carriers, said PierPass, the company created by terminal operators at the ports. Companies using peak hours can obtain the booking numbers via PierPass’s Web site.
PierPass — created by terminal operators at the ports — set an ‘OffPeak’ program last July to relieve congestion, offering incentives for truckers to work the ports during slower hours. (Click here for previous coverage.) Transport Topics
La. Lowers I-10 Bridge Weight Limit to 70,000 Lbs.
Louisiana has lowered the weight limit on the westbound Interstate 10 bridge over Lake Pontchartrain to 70,000 pounds from 80,000 pounds because of stress from heavy trucks, the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Saturday.fficials said stress from heavy trucks was wearing away metal panels used to patch the damaged bridge after it was weakened last summer by Hurricane Katrina, the newspaper said.
he legal weight limit for trucks in Louisiana is 80,000 pounds — a limit vehicles may exceed if drivers obtain special permits. The bridge’s new weight limit will be in effect until further notice, the Times-Picayune reported.
rucks weighing between 80,000 and 90,000 pounds can use the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway as an alternate route, while trucks that exceed 90,000 pounds must use I-55 south at Hammond, La., to reconnect to I-10, the paper said. Transport Topics
ATA Backs Conversion to Electronic Hazwaste Manifests
American Trucking Associations has submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency supporting creation of an electronic hazardous waste manifest system.The proposed system would allow the federal and state governments to track the movement of hazardous wastes and allow government, generators and disposal facilities to access this information through an electronic database, ATA said.
ATA called on EPA to eliminate the requirement for transporters to carry a separate EPA hazardous wastes manifest form and to allow hazwastes to be transported with paperwork authorized by the Department of Transportation for shipment of other hazardous materials. Transport Topics
