[King County] More on the Trucks at Seatac

[elfs]

Apparently, the locals have been raising holy hades over the trucks at the airport thing I earlier commented on. Omaha attended a meeting recently in her guise as a Democrat to find out that the trucks are both overweight and uncovered, and the highway patrol office is using between twelve and sixteen troopers per day to monitor the trucks. The troopers are writing tickets constantly.

The port authority has written this off as "business as usual," and both it and the construction companies are writing off the tickets as part of the price to pay for getting the runway done on time. They can do this because they're absolutely flush with taxpayer cash from property taxes, which is being funnelled to, um, state coffers by way of the state patrol.

Twelve to sixteen public peace and safety officers per day are spending their time recycling public funds in a fashion that could be covered by four port inspectors, and in a far more wasteful fashion.

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[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

CHP (California Highway Patrol) is nasty about this subject. I heard about a time where the officer called for a big rig tow, pointed out to the big rig tow driver that the tow-away vehicle is overloaded and must be cross-loaded to become legal, then called for additional trucks to do the cross-loading . . . and the whole shebang billed by the tow service to the guilty company, on a truck lien.