New Jersey mandates snow-free vehicles

Ban Jersey.

 

Wish I could.

I followed this story last winter when they tried and failed to get this passed. They already had the law in place that fined you if falling snow or ice caused an accident. Now they've got the rest of it. Well yippy yahoo for them.

I suppose, before leaving from a drop and hook, I'm supposed to somehow climb on top of my van trailer with my blow dryer and melt off all the snow and ice that has built up over the last few weeks the trailer has been sitting there.

I remember last winter one state official saying that this would be a great opportunity for a cottage industry to arise in the state. Heh, yeah right.

Well, if New Jersey thinks I'm going to solve their budget woes by heading down the road in a ticket-waiting-to-happen, they are sadly mistaken. I'm a company driver, and the way I see it, this is the company's problem. We haul a lot of freight out of Jersey, and this winter, if there is build-up on a trailer I pick up, I'm calling my company and telling them their trailer isn't moving until they get someone there to clear it off.

I don't care if it costs me money to sit, and I don't care who it cheeses off. This law is nothing other than extortion and I refuse to pay the blackmailers.

And for all those drivers out there who will risk the ticket because they think they can't afford not to, fine, but know that you will be giving them exactly what they wanted -- to put us drivers in an impossible situation so they can bleed us of cash.

Man, I wish I were an O/O so I could just never go there again.

 

Just did a quick search for a new article about this and ran across this at a news site, New Jersey Newsroom (I'd put a link, but I'm too new a member to get to do that, I think). Anyway, here's a quote from the article:

"Commercial motor vehicle drivers won't be subject to a fine if the driver is traveling to a location with snow and ice removal equipment or technology, provided that the driver has not already passed such a location before being stopped."

Well, I guess that shows me. I should feel all peachy keen better now, I suppose. Ain't it funny that I don't? And to think, I just hated going to Jersey before this new law because of the insane traffic and road system. Enough is never enough, I gess. :::sigh:::

 

I wont go to jersey and i wont go to comifornia.

 

I'm gonna take a guess that those "locations with snow and ice removal equipment or technology" don't actually exist yet.

 

I can see a new business venture in the making. Circus groups should rent out stilt walkers with ice scrapers to truck stops.

 

There are lawyer's probably lining up and licking their chops anticipating the lawsuit's against the state in the near future. Will the state be liable when a driver falls nearly 14 feet walking on an icy roof trying to clear it or no? There will be injuries and death from this, there will be some trucking companies in a world of hurt if they require their drivers to go up for removal and they fall. The governor probably has a relative or a friend already lined up with rights to a patented snow/ice removal system.... probably will be similar to a jet de-icing set up. Some mobster from Newark or Jersey City will end up rich from this one.

 

stop voting for democrats