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Letter to the Editor Jan. 30, 2010
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EDITOR: I'm sorry Kevin Parsons, 44, of New Albany. I hope Hodges Trucking helps you out here. This is just some more of everyone is going to have their hands out for money from these companies. Although yes you did break the law being without a permit for that load - hello! - $25,000 dollars worth of fines; that is a little too far. I do believe if it was me, I would be done, house would have to be sold and I'm sure there was no warnings. If Kevin's got to pay this, there is just about half his salary, I believe.
I did see a lot of new signs up all over the place stating 10-ton limits so they were getting set up for hammering down on some of these loads. It almost looks like all the roads have them now. This looks like locking them in that area. I'm not sure how that works. All these companies come up here and trying to work on getting some better sources of energy and Pennsylvania's got it and can and will benefit from this in the end. We need not to get carried away with these people. Or they will pull out of here if it gets worse. We need to work with them. Help them and at least give them some warnings about permits for where their tankers can park empty or full and the loads they have to haul. With the pads and or sites being so close with each other can PennDOT work out a deal with these companies?
This is just my thoughts on what I see going on in the area. Everyone is for. Show me the money!
Sam Bennett
Wyalusing
7 posted comments
Here's some. For letting a car or truck slide thou its inspection that
can be unsafe or speeding or just goofing off while driving and yes cell
phone and texting while driving..... And let's not forget. As we all
have seen the state police in Wysox & Towanda and I hope all wish they
could slow it down at least 20 to 25 MPH from the speed they are going.
There in pursuit. We know it's an emergency and someone needs there
help. But holy dust storms there is a lot of blind spots people are
pulling out of in Wysox. If they got clobbered broadside @ that speed I
would not want to be there to see what it looks like. And for the few I
just mentioned. There's a lot more. Someone has lost a life over it or
form that action. I'm sure Sam knows an oversize load is unsafe. This
is for the site to gas site truck. I believe just making the paperwork a
little shorter. The whole process easier working with the state will
help them out and they can and hopefully do it the right way to be safe.
I believe he is saying $2500.00 is saying Mr. Driver? It's time to wake
up and show some responsibility ...$25000.00 it is saying time to find
another job. This is just an example. And I know it not as serious. I
hope all get this. They say we all should eat better. True. So go to the
super markets and the price that food that is good for you. Way up! That
is bad for the hard working small paycheck people out there so you'll
eat the cheaper food and clog your arteries. And more than likely pass
away at a young age and should they be able to eat well? I think so.
Sue you are right and I'm sorry to hear that store of the accident that
happen to the father. But keep in mind the loads are still going to be
moved. Hope in a safe way. It the paper work and time and for a short
dissidents. That why there skipping the permits not there using no
binders or straps to hold the loads on. After reading the entire store
the company did pay his fine or they would not have their $400.000.00 or
so piece of equipment back. There is not going to be a happy medium
here. If you look at everything there will be something or way it's not
safe and some time we lose a loved one before it will change or be fixed
or just stopped. It's going to be said to listen to sons and daughters
in the upcoming future to say my Mom or Dad would be still alive if the
food that was good for you was affordable or lost his job over 27 fines
in one shot and had to go and work for les pay.
As I read back throw this they're going to be some other issues sure.
Any impairment, any unsafe condition, puts others at risk. Just because you want or feel you need to drive. No one has the right to take chances with the safety, indeed, the life of another.
This driver was stopped. Hopefully, a lesson will be learned.
Some companies count this as part of the cost of doing business.
Having seen first hand the outcome of this unwise practice, my sympathies do not lie with those responsible. A truck scale is a sure way to prevent this. I am sure the company could buy one for $25,000 and they and the drivers would be much safer. As would the general public.
Money talks, maybe it can say, be more careful.
Although please let not go and bring up drinking and driving and compare the two. DUI is not a joke! That will go in a lot of direction …big fines…driving licenses gone...vehicle gone…..and yes the most serious … lose of a friend …or …family member… or… someone you do not even know …. Yes with a seriously SAID mom dad sister or brother looking up and saying why GOD and the drunk driver should get?????... HELLO just don’t do it there is nobody twisting you arm and yes there are enough signs out there that say Do not DUI you cannot afford it and they are RIGHT…
Truckers pay an obscene amount of money to use the roads (my husband pays $1,251 per year, per truck for a permit just to use Pennsylvania's roads). That money is SUPPOSED to fund road repairs but that in itself is a JOKE. Have you seen most of the state's roads? The DOT screams about safety, but Pennsylvania's roads are among the WORST in the nation. AND none of that money is refunded when a road is posted with a weight restriction, forcing truckers to use longer routes, which burns more fuel and wastes time. You can bank that cost will be passed onto the consumer - YOU.
The DOT salivates at the thought of stopping a trucker. It's easy money without having to really work for it in some cases.
Last time my husband was stopped, the eager policeman couldn't find a single infraction (and he gets props for trying). We were empty, on our way home and on a road that didn't have weight restrictions. They can stop you at random, without a reason, and love doing so.
We made him give us a sticker showing we were compliant. We'll never get back the time it took waiting for the eager beaver to come up with NOTHING for which to fine us.
Most truckers are compliant - but you seldom hear about that.
It's a nightmare to haul anything through Pennsylvania. (Maintain your log books - it saved our backsides.)
I agree with you, Sam. They have to find a way to work together in order for Pennsylvania to be considered a commerce-friendly state.
The first year I got up here I attended an annual party of some organization and all I heard were horror stories about fines of truckers by the State Police. I wrote my state representatives about this attitude because I thought it unhealthy.
A 10 ton limit is a restraint of trade, as there is no way
even a Penn Dot or Snow Plow rig is not illegal. As to chasing
the truckers out of here? The leases are signed and paid for and
nothing short of WW III will stop those who shelled out countless millions from bring in the equipment to get out that gas.
The poor helpless truck drivers will get picked off one by one.
I got nailed for having something on my rear view mirror a few years ago. Now 25 % of the people here have such things on their mirrors. Car dealers have loaner cars driving around with paint all over the windshields.. no problem. When your allowed to selectively enforce a law when it suits you, the you have a problem. You should not make a law unless you are prepared and willing to do so. Otherwise we live in continuous fear not knowing what to expect next.