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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 04141998 - D3 D.S +c BOARD 6F SUPERVISORS � Contra ...y- +- FROM: Supervi'lor Donna Gerber � ` Costa DATE: April 14 , 199$ ,y SauECT: REPORT REGARDING CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN BROWNING FERRIS INDUSTRIES AND TEAMSTERS LOCAL 315 S"WIC REOURST(t)OR RECOMMIENDATto;7SI i SApttiRGIUND AND rLlITWICATION Recommendation. Receive a report regarding contract negotiations between Teamsters Local 315 and Browning Ferris Industries. Background: The Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution 98/81 on March 3, 1998, supporting negotiations in good faith between Browning Ferris Industries and Teamsters Local 315. As no tentative agreement has yet been reached, a status report of progress should be furnished the Board. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES 91*14ATM: RECOMMENDATION*F COUNTY ADMPMS'rRATOR �.,...RECOMMENDAt10N OF*OARD COMMrI TEE -Amon OTHER �OHAT��!Et1I;I: ACTION W iOARD ON APRIL 14,_1998 APFRMD AS RECOMMEMM X OTHER x While considering a status report on the negotiations between Browning-Ferris Industries and Teamsters Local 315, and following testimony, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to consider the following item, and take the following action: REFERRED to the County Administrator the issue of overweight trucks and consequent safety and/or road damage issues for a recommendation as to which Board committee would be appropriate to review the matter, and to identify which law enforcement agencies would have jurisdiction, and to recommend a method of communicating the Board's concerns to those agencies. VOTE OF SUPERVOORS 1 HERM CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE .,Yi...,UNANIMOtIl(ASSENT V + AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TMMN AYES: 010E8: AND ENTEREO ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOA" AISSENT: ABSTAIN: W SUPERVISORr ON DATE SIIOW ea: Phil Batchelor ATED X. 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BOX 3010 MARTINEZ, CA 84553 (510) 228-2248 { vY TO { Supervisor Joe Canciamilla Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Hand Delivered { f Page 8 FOCUS - 13 OF 19 5TOR1yS Copyright 1993 Sun-Sentinel Company Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale) July 18, 1993, Sunday, SPORTS FINAL EDITION SEC1"wOX—, LOCAL, Pg. lA LENGTH:: 1136 words EX=LINE OVERLOADED TRUCKS COSTSTA'T'E MILLIONS BYL =: ZOM; KENNEDY, ; Tallahassee Bureau BODY: TALL,Ai ASSEE -- one in five trucks on state highways is illegally overweight, causing Floridians to pay millions of dollars a year to repair road damage and posing safety risks to motorists, state and federal officials say. If stopped, overweight truckers have little to fear. Florida's penalties have not increased in 40 years and are among the lowest in the Southeast. I'The low risk of getting caught coupled with low penalties makes it a good gamble for truckers to run overweight, ' ' said Eric Moody, a 'Texas transportation consultant who has studied Florida's trucking industry. ' ' If you get away 19 times and get caught once, it's certainly worth your while to go heavy, ' Moody said. ' 'Meanwhile, pavements are getting pounded. - About 400,000 trucks are registered in Florida and thousands more roll into the state every day, the state Department of Transportation said. bast year, the DOT issued 43,563 citations, with some trucks r'=iag more than 25 tons overweight. But the citations represent only a small fraction of the overweight trucks, DOT otficiale said. The DOT has only 22 roadside weigh stations and 130 mobile officers to police Florida's 67 counties. ' 'It's like trying to fight a forest fire with a garden. hose, ' ' said Chuck Bradshaw, chief of the DOT's weight compliance division. Truckers over• ,aad their vehicles for a ;simple reason; money. 'The'' more You haul. the more money you make, DOT officer Jerry See-ley said. On State Road 84 near Went Palm Uach last month, Seeley stopped. William Gutierrez of Miami, who was carrying a load of fill. Gutierrez'$ truck, legally registered to carry 54,999 pounds, was 41,001 pounds overweight. The truck was impounded .for two dayas .until Gutierrez returned. with $ 2,050. In another case, Melvin Funes of Miami was stopped on Sample Road in Pompano Beach last spring while carrying 110,300 pounds of hurricane debris. A DOT 3 Page 9; Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale), July 18, 1993 FOCUS officer found Tunas' truck 34,300 pounds overweight and fined him $ 1,715, in both cases, the fines were orL17 a portion of the cargo's value. Drivers for one South Florida company, Siboney Trucking Co. of West palm Beach, have been cited 491 times and fined more than $ 165,000 for cverwaight trucks since 1986, state records show. Siboney officials did not return repeated telephone calks from rhe ,Sun-Sentinel., weight limits are aimed chiefly at keeping heavy trucks from damaging roadways. The weight over the wheels of one axle cannot exceed 22, 000 pounds -- the highest limit of ally Southeast state. A truck's overall gross weight is trapped at 80,000 pounds unless a 3secial permit is issued. (Last geek, Gov. Lawton Ch-les waived the limit for truckers carrying bottled water to Midwest flood victims.) since 1953, Florida truckers have paid fines of 5 cents per overweight pound. The rate has not changed even as inflation has climbed more than 400 percent,. —The fines are so minima:., they're not a disincentive, t ' said Kevin Bakewell, vice president of the American`Autcmobila Association Clubs of Florida. ' "Truckers can more than make up for whatever fine they have to play by traveling overweight. ' ' While trucking firms pocket profits, Florida: taxpayers pay for the gear and tear on roa4wilys , Weight compliance officers collected $ 9.3 million in finers last year, but that exceeded the cast of running the an.farcamen,t program by only $ 84o,000, records show. The $ 800,000 is enough to resurface only six miles of rural two--lane road, DOT officials said, Taxpayers ever the remaining coat of filling ruts and potholes. Then there is the safety factor. Overweight trucks are harder to ;steer,' require longer braking distances and are more prone to blowout t, estate and federal officials say. No statistics are kept ors, the number of overweight trucks i. svolved in accidents, but Bakewell said, ' 'All studies you see show (they) ars more dangerous. ' ' Over opposition from the trucking industry, the Florida Transportation Commission, ars advisory panel, has recommended raising the finam, tinder the Proposed guidelines, truckers would pay an a sliding scale ranging from Yo to 20 cants a Pound, based on the amount of illegal weight. Trucks more thasi 10,004 pounds overweight would pay the highest figure.. Those rates would raise an additional $ 8 million. DOT offidiatls, while; unable to provide exact figures, slay the new revenue still would represent only a small portion of the damage frora heavy trucks. The proposal is explanted to go before the legislature next year. i1 ''I'll''..-................................................................................................. ......................... ......I..'',...... ............................................................ Page 10 Sun-Sentinel(Fort Lauderdale), July 18, 1993 FOCUS if approved, Pr.oae fres would be the stiffest in the southeast North Carolina and Mississippi, for example, impose 3=11or fines than Florida for trucks running slightly overweight but harsher penalties for the worst offenders. Truckers whose rigs are 10,000 pounds overweight are penalized !, 000. in Florida, they pay only $ goo . ' obviously, truckers think twice about going overweight with our penalties, II said Robert Moseley, who oversees Mississippi's program. ' 'We think it's an effective deterrent. ' ' Florida legislators, though, have been resistant to change laws that Could hurt the state's trucking industry. Powerful industries such as home building and citrus are dependent on produce carriers, concrete haulers, sanitation, rock and sand trucks. The Florida Trucking Association, which represents 1,300 companies, is fighting the proposed increase. The vast majority of truckers are overweight by accident, said FTA president Tom Webb, who headed the Florida DoTin the late 19708. 1 'The driver thinks he I s legal, but he I s not. The guy that's extremely overweight, that's another story, But that's rare. ' ' Webb blamed the state for not doing a better job catching those driving overweight. He also disputed the road damage attributed to heavy trucks. ' The noT has no idea what the real costs are to the road, I Webb said. The concept of the sliding scale (increase) we don't oppose, It's the magnitude of the increase we don't like. ' ' Webb said the FTA might be willing to support a rate increase. In exchange, he said, the legislature should boost the state's 80,000-poUnd limit on domestic trucks to 95,000 Pounds. -you never know what might come in once you start horse trading with the legislature, Webb said. C::TATIOXS Last year, the 710rida Department of Transportation issued truckers 43,563 citations for overweight violations. Here are the number of citations by category: Amount Overweight (NU) Citations More than 50,000 pounds 57 30, 000-30,000 pounds 649 20,000-30,DOO pounds 465 10,000-20,000 pounds 1,910 ..........-...I.................. ...... ..................................................................................... Suss-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale),July 18, 1993 FOCUS 0-10, 000 pounda 40,482 SOTTRCE; Ljftp&rtmsnt of Transportation, Weight Compliance Division GRApq , IC; pIrOTO, (color}Staff photo/GEORGE MILLER.Florida Department of Transportation Officer Terry Gartner checks the scales for a truck being weighed. LOAD-DATE: MXY 30, 1996 ''I'll'.-......................................................................................................................................I........... ........................................................ Page 16 FOCUS - 47 OF 50 STORIES Copyright 1581 The Times mi=or Company Los Angeles Times July 23, 1987, Thursday, Home Edition SECTION: South Bay; Part 9; Page 1; Column 5 LENGTH; 906 words HEADLINE:,: CRASH PROMPTS CALL FOR ADDED CONTROLS ON PENINSULA TRUCXS WMINE- By TIM WATERS, Times Staff Writer BODY; The fatal crash of an overloaded, runaway trash truck and two other vehicles this week has Vrompted a call for stronger controls on trucks using the steep, curving roads of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council on Tuesday called for a meeting of officials from their city, Rolling Rills Estates, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which polices both cities, and the California Highway Patrol to discuss alternatives. Truck Lane Considered Rancho Palos Verdes Councilman Bob Ryan said the officials could consider the feasibility of separating truck and automobile traffic along Crenshaw and Hawthorne boulevards. "We want to start looking at things like putting a truck lane in and making the trucks stay in that lane, " he said. No date or location for the meeting has been set. In recent months, county and Rolling Hills Estates officials have lowered speed limits and imposed weight restrictions on Crenshaw, where the fatal accident occurred Monday. Moreover, sheriff's deputies who Patrol the Peninsula have been seeking authority to immediately order defective trucks or vans off the road if a CEP officer is not readily available. currently, only the CHP can do that, one person was killed and four others were injured when the Sq�rb*ge truck, which CHP investigators say was overweight by _more f— *,-- went out of contr I while travelruck, owned by W*sto= Waste Industries and driven by 23-year-old Daniel Leo of Los Angeles, crashed through a guardrail and struck a car that had sped up to avoid it. The truck then ripped off the upper part of another car driven by Virginia Ponce DeLeon, 46, of San Pedro, DeLeon was killed instantly. Daughter Saw Crash DeLeon's daughter, Cynthia, 18, was following her mother and witnessed the crash. The woman's husband, Frank, was behind his daughter in a third vehicle, but did not sea the accident. CRY investigators said they do not know why the Page 17 Los Atgeles Tinies, July 23, 19117 FOCUS family was traveling caravan-stile. The two people in the first car hit by the truck, as well as a worker who was in the, garbage truck, were _rotated at hospitals and released.> Lee remained hospitalized Wednesday with a broken jaw. CHP investigators said the trash truck was 9,000 pounds overweight when the accident occurred. By unloading the refuse from the truck and picking up the trash left in the vehicle's wake, investigators determined that the truck weighed nearly 60,040 pounds overall -- Ist more than tate maximum allowed under state law, of!icar Rich Richards said. Richards said the additional 9,000 pounds was a "contributing factor" to the accident. ,It certainly would have made the truck more difficult to handle, " he said. However, Richards said investigators still have not determined whether mechanical failure or driver error caused the truck, to go out of control. Richard Haft, a vice president and general counsel for Western Waste, said it was "unfortunates that the truck was overweight, " but said no one knows what caused the accident Haft said the truce are not, equipped with scales. He said there are times when "all trash trucks are overweight. Every once in a while, a truck will pick up an extra load or two and become overweight." Lee, the truck,9 driver, had worked at Western only a month or two but previously had worked at another refuse company and had a good driving record, Hatt said. The company is conducting its own investigation, he said. Authorities said there are two to four accidents a year involving runaway trucks On Crenshaw and Hawthorne boulevards, the Peninsula's main arteries. The worst accident in recent memory occurred several years ago when three people burned to death after an out-cif-control concrete truck careened down a steep Hawthorne Boulevard grade and collided with a small car. As a result of the accidents, Rolling Hills Estates and sheriff's deputies have tried to restrict trucks on the two roads. Last December, county officials lowered the truck spend limit on a segment of Crenshaw between Silvexspur Road and Palos Verdes Drive North from 45 m.p.h. to 25 m.p.h. after the Sheriff's Department voiced Concern. The speed limit for cars was lett at 45 m.p.h. more recently, the Rolling Hills Estates City Council on July 14 passed an ordinance that forbids trucks weighing 6,000 pounds or more from traveling along Crenshaw in a short, city-controlled stretch near Silverspur. They ordin=ce, which goes into effect its mid-,august, does not apply to trucks doing business in the city it Crenshaw providers the most direct route to their destination. "The idea is to gat them on. Hawthorne,TM whore there are emergency lanes for runaway trucks, said Doug Prichard, assistant city massager for Rolling Hills Estates, it was unclear whether the ordinances -- had it been its effect -- would have .................................................I.................................................................................................................. Page 18 Los Angeles'Crones,July 23, 1987 FOCUS prevented the trash truck from using Crenshaw. Prichard said the city has asked Los Angeles County Supevrisor Deane Dana to look into the possibility of installiag emergency lanes along Crenshaw. Such lanes, run parallel to the road and are designed to allow vehicles in troubla to get of,- and stop safely. Rolling Hills Estates also supports legislation being sponzored by the Azen. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs that would give deputies the power Co order defective trucks or vans off the road immediately if a CUP officer is not available. GRAPHIC: Photo, Truck passes spot on Crenshaw Boulevard where garbage truck broke through guardrail Monday. 17. KEVIN ELLIOTT Los Angeles Times LANGUAGE. ENGLISH Page M 70=5 - 18 OF 19 STORIES Copyright 1989 Chicago 'Tribune Company Chicago Tribune September 18, 1989, Monday, NORTH SPORTS F7,NAL EDITION SECTION: CHICAaOtAND; Pg. 3; ZONE: C LENGTH. 576 words HEADLINE: Traffic law violators beware Heavy tucks, drunk drivers pay in Harrington Hills BYI,I1`FE: By William Recktenwaald BODY The village of Barrington Hills sprawls across parts of four counties, its 90 miles of local stwsets more like country roads than suburban streets. With a population of just More than 3,600, Barrington Hills is protected by a police force of 18 officers. Those officers appear to be very busy, for the village, which ranks 120th in population among 134 Chicago ,:suburban municipalities, ranks sixth in revenue produced by fines for traffic violations records show. The village collects more fines per police officer than any other municipality in Cock County, an analysis of records shows. It has accomplished this largely through a mini-war on unwanted trucks and drunken drivers. ,We concentrate on traffic and overweight trucks, " said Robert Lamb, who has been the Harrington Hills police chief for sit years. "We have a hire-back grogram, where we hire our off-duty officers to work strictly on overweight or ]D= (driving under the influence) enforcement." Those officers receive no other assignment and concentrate on overweight trucks or D= arrests, Lamb said. Although the village is located in parts of McHenry, Kane, ,Lakes and Cook counties, all of its traffic cases are handled in the Cook county Circuit Court. In 1989, fines of $:77.391 were collected for tickets issued in Barrington Hills, according to the Circuit court clerk's records. Last year's figure represents a 144 percent increase over 1985, when $113, 5:.3 was collected. Last year, Des Plaines collected the greatest amount among suburbs, taking in $484,6.23 in fines. 2t was followed by schaumburg with $354,745; Rottman E9tates9, $322,2011 Palatino, $302,495, and Elk shove Village, $281,471. But each of tho=se towns has ai much larger population and polices force. ides Plaines, for example, has 53,568 rosiciants and 95 .sworn officers. Schaumburg has nearly 60,O00 people and 109 officers. ................................ Page 21 Chicago Tribute September 18, 1989 FOCUS in the first eight months of this year, Barrington Hills police made 100 arrests for overweight trucks and 108 arrests for drunken driving, Lamb said. some $99,552 in bond money was posted for the over,4eight truck charges. Add4-tionally, 314 trucks were cited for traffic violations and 98 tickets were issued for equipment safety violations on trucks in that period, Lamb said. ,,we are educating tvuckers, ll Lamb said, "we Be* much lower z%W*ftr3 Of equipment violations than we did in prior years. our uai enforcement is paying off, zoo, with foweir accidents and fatalities, " Through Aturast, there were 4,128 arrests of motorists, besides truckers, and 44e tickets for equipment Violations, PlUe 413 warning tickets, "We have a huge volume of truck traffic in this area, " Lamb said. "Our village roads simply can't take the pounding that heavy trucks would give it-" e village j. Tage prohibits through traffic on most roads by trucks with a gross weight of 12, 000 pounds, and local deliveries in excess of 28,000 PoUnds gross require a special village permit. The 12,000-pound maximum can translate into a heavily loaded pickup truck. "When we issue a permit, we will try and route the truck so it drives the shortest possible time on our village roads," Lamb said. The permit costs $50, he said. All of the money assessed in fines and court costs, however, does not come back to t-h* villag*, Lamb said. Of each ;50 in court costs, only $10 goes to the village, which is earmarked to pay the cost of village prosecutors who appear in court. The remainder goes to county fl=ds, LAN=AGr&: ENGLISIt ............. Page FOCUS - 1 0.7 STORY Copyright 1993 Chicago 'Triauna Company Chicago Tribura October 11, 1953 Sunday, FINAL EDITION SECTION: TEMPO DT3 PAGE; Pg. 3; ZONE: D; Bu Page Yssues. LENGTH: 1339 words HRAZLn;'E ROUGH RIDERS; OVERWEIGHT TRUCKS TEAR UP THE ROADS; MMICIPALZTTR'8 Sc EX WAYS OF DEALING WITH V'ERTC.LES THAT CARRY TOO-HEAVY LOADS SyL:=: Suzanne G. Hlctke. Special to the Tribune. BODY. Although the temperatures drop and the hours sof daylight dwindle, there is one ting about November that makes Du Page County commuters happy: The read construction season comes to an end-at least until next March. And this season, just like every other one, motorists have repeatedly asked a single question: Wasn't this road just turn, up for repairs? Sgt. James Linane of the Carol Stream Police Department said drivers can find one ma-',or reason for the frequent road repairs: large commercial vehicles, many of them running overweight. Linane is known throughout Illinois as an expert on truck enforcement. when he's aft duty, he teaches truck enforcement courses for law enforcement agencies through Northeast Regional Training Inc. , in North Aurora, which provides more than sno courses on a wider range of topics. Linana cites figures of a study done by they state during the 19609 in Ottawa, in LaSalle County southwest of Chicago. "That study showed that one truck> weighing E 0,000 po=ds puts`<the name wear and tear on a road as 9,600 cars, " he said.. Taking into account that some trucks travel with light loads or empty, still the average wear and tear per truck amounts to that done by 3,400 Gars, he said. "Wheat happens 1:11 he said, "is that hairline cracks appear in the ro*dway. Thame cracks> fill= with watcer and freeze and thaw repeatedly throughout the winter. Eventually, YOU have Potholes, and a big price tag that has to be >paid, by the 'taxpayekrs.>"' This year Du Page County alone will spend $1.5 million on road repair and maintenance for the 744 lane miles of county highways. Tn addition, 50 of the as county Division of Transportation employees will work on road repair as needed throughout the year, according to Don Zeiltaga, director of transportation for the county. State, federal and local municipal funding translates into more millions of t�� -y mss' Page 3 Chicago Tribune, October 17, 1993 FOCUS dollars and more miles of tam-up roads ever,.1 year. buring the neat. year, the Illinois General Assembly has appropriated $1.15 billion for highway improvements. in the six-county Chicago area, 4540 ;pillion in state funds wii be spent on road repair, construction and improvement, according to Bob Plunk of the Illinois Department of Transportation. But road damage isn't the only problem overweight trucks cause. They also are a safety hazard to other vehicles, Linane said. "Tile most: common factor in crashes involving mechanical breakdown of trucks is the braking system." If the truck is running overweight and there is already a problem with the brakes, the potential for a serious or fatal accident is greater. "Overweight trucks cause more road damage, r' Linano said, „and account for a largo number of fatal accidents nationwide. " According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, in 1991 (the last year for which figures were available) throughout t7.5. 4,090 fatal accidents involving trucks resulted in 4, 814 deaths. Fines for weight and safety violations can mean a lot of money for local municipalities. A fine can run into thousands of dollars, depending on the amount a truck is running overweight and how the police officer writes the citation. Several overweight violations can be found on a single vehicle at ane time. "Local governments realize that it is a► neat little business to be into, said Fred Serpe, executive director of the Illinois Transportation Association, an organization based in River Grove that represents the trucking and transportation industry in the state. "The fines are revenue genersators. Any try generated from ovetrwesights should go into the state mead fund if the purpo.00 is to create money to replace roads." instead, he said, the money goes into municipal general funds and can be used for purposes other than road repair. But Li.nane thinks it is unfair to call track enforcement a 'revenue generzator. "These fines area more like user fees, r' he said. "The fines are used to offset the cast of repairing (road damage) , which is caused by the trucks in the first`` place. with that in mind, >Naperville recently enacted an >ordinance that assesees a user fee and issues permits to overweight truce that need to usss local roada The fees have bean in place for nearly two months, and traffic engineer Fred Ranck said the program is working for the benefit of everyone So far, 90 psrmizz have been issued, he said. "We have noticed since enactment of the ordirAnce that trucks that >previously carried 90,000 'pounds are now <carrying only 72,000 to avoid the flea, " he said. "That create& leas wear and tear on the road." A truck that appears to be overweight is pulled over, and the police officer directs it to the truck scale. Ranck also said companies are adding extra axles to their vehicles to distribute the weight over a larger area; this results in lower fees for the truckers and less damage~ to roads. Page 4 Chicago Tribune, October 17, 1993 FOCUS All monies collected through overweight fines and the issuance of permits will be deposited in .111aperville,s road and bridge fund, he said. The village does -not want to tell t-_Uc%ers not to use its roads, he said, "but we do want them to pay for the damage they cause. ,, "That ordinance will have to be challenged, " Serpe asserted, though there are not yet any plans to do so, "It is an infringement on interstate commerce and the free flow of goods across state lines." But Ranck said the ordinance passed the review of the city's legal counsel before it was enacted, and he's confident it will stand up to <a, challenge in court. An Illinois law that takes effect Jan. I may threaten local. -truck enforcement efforts, however. The law requires that over,4eiqht truck fines be paid not to the jurisdiction issuing the ticket but to the jurisdiction that maintains the road. In Carol Stream, for instance, if a police officer tickets an overwtight tzucX on North Avenue, Which is a state highway, tha fine would go to the state, "This would take away a.';.! incentive for local enforcement because there is no guarantee that the money Collected through fines would be used by the state or county to repair those roads being patrolled by local police officers, " Unafte said. "But I really don't think this law in going to get very far, " he said, "it was passed as part of a bill, and . . . I expect to see it changed, it not by Jan. 1, than shortly thereafter." State Sen. Beverly rawell (R.-Glen Ellyn) said: "My personal feeling is that we should get everyone to sit down and figure out where the law should go. I don't have a problem with local police getting some of it. But I don't know if they should get it all. " Meanwhile, garbage haulers in Geneva are feeling the heat of overweight truck enforcement from the police department. Each day garbage haulers drive through the town, coming from Genava and surrounding municipalities to reach Settler's Hill Landfill. Those cOnVaniA8 believe the G*zeva Police Department is unfairly targeting their vehicles. "We try to drive within the legal limits' , n said Robert Vander Molen, general manager of BPI Waste Systems in AUrora. "But we cannot accurately tell what is in a load when thoze are two inches 01 water in a customer's garbage can. it adds to the weight.o He said it is an inexact science to estimate the weight of at garbage truck. It I a not like hauling cement, " he said. Lt. Joe Frega, Of the Geneva Police Department said that, while it appears Q4m*V4 targets garbage trucks, he believes more garbage trucks drive through town than, say, gravel haulers and other types of heavy vehicles. He said that would not be the case Lf the landfill entrance was not located in Geneva. Pagej',5 Chicago Tribune,October 17, 1993 FOCUS "We take an aggressive pasture, " he said. "Seven or eight truck enforcement officers work various tirnes " He said truck enforcement is not stressed any more than other areas of traffic, such as speeding. ",And drivers should know it they are within the 2,0oa-pound tolerance, " he said. 00rerdeight trucks are not only a detriment to our highways, but they &re a danger to others." GRAPHIC- PHOTOS 2 Pnom: James Linane uses toy trucks in the courses he teaches on truck enforcement for various law enforcement agancies. Photo by Hank DeGeorge. PHOTO. Gonerva police offic*r Sgt. Terrence Partyka weighs a truck to be sure itis not traveling overweight. Photo by Kevin Tanaka. LANGUAGR: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: December 7, 1993 ......................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................ Page 8 FOCUS 24 OF 50 STOKM Copyrights 1594 The New York Times Company Vne New Yo:k T40fts Occab*r 7, 1994, Friday, Late Edition - Villa! CT: Sact'on s; Page 6; Column 1; Metrot=14-tan Desk LENGTH; 645 words Hp,ADLI=; Patrols Hunt Trash Trucks From New York With Defects special to The New York Times DAM=: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. , Oct. 6 BODY. Connect4.Cut is cracking down on New York City trash haulers who cart meo-re than jo ,aillion pounds of garbage to energy-qrrducing plants in Sridgelport and Rartford each week, often in overweight tr,,,.cks with faulty eq=.pmant that officiala say Are tearing up st' At4 =ads. State police officials here say the truckers, who have nowhere to dump their garbage in New York City anymore, are forced to drive to the waste-burning plata in Connecticut, New Jersey and other nearby states, and are trying to cut their expenses by piling more garbage on rigs that make fewer trips. While the state police and the Department of Motor Vehicles conduct ongoing inspections at three weigh stat .ons around the state -- on the Connecticut Tu=pike in Greenwich and Old Lyme and an Interstate 84 in Danbury -- a flagrant violation by an independent Bronx hauler, Vi.-Icert Winston, several weeks ago has led to a crackdown by roving patrols using portable scales. The driver, who was caught in Wallingford, was carrying 31,950 pounds over the ao,000-pound state maximum for tractor-trailers and was fined $!3, 000. Calls left for him at several work sites were not zaturned. Olt-19 a major problem and we're trying to do something about it, " raid Sgt. John Duley of the state police central traffic =it. AHOW would you feel it you were driving on the Connecticut Turnpike and looked ever and saw a t--Uc.Ac with sparks flying under its tires because there's too much garbage on the truck? It's a potential nightmare and we see it every day- It %rhe state police said that in 1994 through August, nearly 105,000 commercial vehicles were weighed throughout the state for possible violations, with $1.6 millions in au=nonseS JZSU*d. Sergeant Dulay said that about 100 summonses are issued dAily throughout the state to overweight commercial vehicles, and that about 10 percent are to trash baulers, many from Now York City. ,,Any overweight vehicle is posing a traffic hazard, but if there were to be ............. ........ q Page 9 The LNew York Times, Oatuber 7, I994 FOCUS an accident involvitg a garbage tuck, cars wculd, literally be buried under the gar age' he said. "We're trying -to make sure that doesn't hafppefl by geL ti.%q as many of these trucks into compliar.ce as we Cas:." it is .not an easy job, said :reaper David Aflala, who in lave September led`a 12-member pac:al on local streesta off the Connac-icat Turnpike rear Bridgeport's waste-to-anargy plant. "These guys will do anything to avoid us and we can' t be everywhere at the same time, " Trooper AtIalo said. "Scmet.imes, when the ward gets out t1hat we're out here, they'll go Park somewhere and try to eras w us out:. But overweight garbage trucks; are a major traffic 'danger and we're tr'y_4=g to nab as mar.y of them as we can. " Roth Now York city and Connecticut garbage haulers say they are e 'being Massed by the Connecticut State Police, "it's totally in,sana what they're doing to us, ,' said Sam Anastasia, manager of Delmar Waste Services in the Bronx. "We're helping to supply C:oanec:icuz, s energy plants and paying them good money to take our refuse and t en they crag down, on our tucks and on our independent drivers. 'They're stopping our trucks' every day and it's getting to the point that it`s not Worth going to Connecticut anymore. We'll just send our trucks to other states instead." The roving ,pat;al in Bridgeport recently ticketad Sanitary Refuse Tnc. , of Waterbury, for $12,000 in fines, charging that its truck was overweight and had massy other safety violations. Henry Testa, onager of Sanitary Refuse, agteed with. Mr. Anastasio that trash hAul.ers were being targeted un,*a-;=ly. "It's a ,joke, because there ars so massy unsafe, illegal cars driving on the road$, and they're getting away with it because the police know those guys don't have the mousey to PaY the fines, " Mr. 'Testa said. The state police say their only motivation is to remove unsafe trucks from the roads. 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