PA: Bill would fine truckers for not removing snow, ice from vehicles

Blue Beacon charged me $5/minute to remove about 4 inches of snow off 53' stepdeck. took them 6 minutes, I also had truck and trailer washed though. Not sure if they would be hip on just blowing snow off without a wash. Might cost more.

 

Well ,i dont see nothing bad in use the bridge to clean up top snow ....just wait until no one around and that's all (safe and free)....

 

Its not the law makers job to come up with a solution, its the companies.

Same as drunk driving, just because we dont have a solution doesn't make it right.


High enough fines and enforcement would make a solution quickly.

 

Offering the snow service without a wash attached would make it more marketable and would draw more customers for that service. Say you set up your bay to clear snow from a trailer in 5 minutes with a roof rake and steam or heat blowers. Then run 10 or 12 trucks through over an hour. If you're charging $10 per truck, that's $100 to $120 dollars an hour per bay. This isn't as profitable as running the wash, but no one spends money on a wash which is going to immediately get messed up with slush and road crud. So, setting something like this up would turn a profit on bays that would likely sit empty on a snow day.

 

Good lord... Just one more thing we'd have to take care of. (Warning, I may go off topic.)

I almost got into an accident today because a 4-wheeler in a pickup had ice and snow all stuck to his headache rack. A large chunk hit the 4-wheeler behind him which caused him to swerve, pieces if it smacked my windsheild proper (those things are durable...), and in the process of the 4-wheeler that got ice tossed at him swerving out of the way, he nearly ran two other cars off the road. Not to mention the other 2 drivers that came over into my lane for safety leaving me barely 10 feet of front space on an icy road.

Its true that our rigs can collect a good bit of snow, but it seems to me that law makers aren't adressing the real problem once again...

This one I get, but I hope it doesn't pass.

 

Anybody have the phone number to this Lisa Boscolo? Next time I'm in PA with a snow/ice problem, I'll give her a jingle and have her come out and demonstrate the proper way to accomplish this task using reasonable efforts

What is the "real problem"? ... mother nature? global climate change?

 

The real problem, at least this is how I feel, is we get blamed and scapegoated for the faults of non-professional drivers. We might be professionals, but isn't it everyone's own responsibility to take care of their own crap and safety?

I have to wonder what laws and regulations would be pointless if even half of 4-wheelers took even half of the responsibities we are supposed to take.

See what im getting at? We can't change the weather, so I seriously hope you didn't think that's what I meant.

 

Clearing the roof of a trailer with liquid, I.e water would have worked real well this week in subzero weather. This b.... Buscola has introduced this legislation every winter for the past 8 years. It was started by a freak accident when a woman was killed in the Lehigh Valley sitting at a traffic light and and several chunks of 2"thick ice broke through her windshield from a tractor trailer making a turn.
All of the methods mentioned would not have addressed this type of an accumulation. Short of climbing 13 feet in the air to visually inspect the roof (try that at 02:00 at 15 degrees and a 20 mph wind) a driver would not even be aware of the ice.
This entire thing is driven by the lawyers. Make it against the law to run around with snow on a vehicle roof and the judgements go sky high.
You think a $25 dollar fine is going to deter this? You think cops are going to enforce it? They don't even ticket CDL drivers holding on to a phone, a practice dozens of times more hazardous.

 

Nothing short of a money grab is all this is..that's why the northeast will never see my truck...crooks.

 

Studebaker you meant Hilarious not Hazardous. Right?