ATA legislation enforcement board urges motion on including truck parking
Immediately, the American Trucking Associations’ Legislation Enforcement Advisory Board despatched a letter to all 50 governors and state departments of transportation urging them to use for federal funds to increase truck parking capability. A nationwide scarcity of business truck parking – extensively documented in authorities and tutorial research – has created a rising freeway security difficulty, as truck drivers are sometimes pressured to park in unlawful or unsafe places when licensed parking is unavailable.
“Legislation enforcement organizations throughout the nation, from native police departments to statewide patrols, are impacted by this difficulty and have seen firsthand how the truck parking scarcity jeopardizes street security for all motorists,” stated Fred Fakkema, LEAB chairman and vp of security and compliance for Zonar Programs, who beforehand served 25 years within the Washington State Patrol. “The U.S. Division of Transportation is providing federal funds to assist increase truck parking capability, and we encourage states to capitalize on these assets now whereas they’re out there.”
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On Sept. 29, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg despatched a letter to ATA President and CEO Chris Spear pledging the administration’s dedication on the problem and detailing numerous aggressive grant packages below the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation that may fund truck parking initiatives. The U.S. Division of Transportation additionally just lately issued official steering on funding eligibility necessities for states as they plan new truck parking initiatives. In current weeks, Florida and Tennessee have been awarded INFRA grants by USDOT totaling $37 million to increase truck parking capability alongside two main interstate freeway corridors.
“Truckers want accessible parking choices to maneuver the economic system’s freight safely and effectively. This difficulty is critically vital – not simply to drivers, however to patrolmen, troopers, and officers as nicely. It’s a high precedence for our Legislation Enforcement Advisory Board, and we’ll preserve working it till the parking scarcity is meaningfully addressed,” stated Derek Barrs, LEAB trade outreach advisor and senior supervisor on the HNTB Company. Barrs beforehand served as chief of the Florida Freeway Patrol’s Workplace of Business Automobile Enforcement.
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ATA’s Legislation Enforcement Advisory Board is a working group comprised of trucking trade professionals who’ve earlier legislation enforcement expertise, in addition to present and retired legislation enforcement officers with expertise in trucking points.
Copies of the letters might be discovered right here.
