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Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 3 ASSOCIATION WSTA President Message – Danny Rocha...... 5 WESTERN Executive Director’s Report - Lee Brown...... 5 TRANSPORTATION NEWS Volkswagen Truck Likely to Buy the Remainder of Navistar...... 9 ISSN 2380-4009 Scott Pruitt Will End EPA’s Use of ‘Secret Science’ to Volume – 77 Number – 3/4 Justify Regulations...... 11 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF Introducing WSTA Insurance Services...... 11 Western States Trucking Association Lee Brown – Senior Editor Governmental Affairs & Communications - Joe Rajkovacz...... 12 Joe Rajkovacz – Managing Editor Membership Services Director - Rudy Navarrete...... 14 Rich Roth – Publisher & Ad Director SUBDIVISION NEWS PUBLISHING HEADQUARTERS Concrete Pumpers - Hank de Carbonel...... 15 334 N. Euclid Avenue • Upland, CA 91786-6031 CARB Consultant – Sean Edgar...... 16 (909) 982-9898 • Fax (909) 985-2348 • westrk.org • westransnews.org Heavy-Haul Conference – Greg Dineen...... 17 OFFICE DIRECTORY West State Alliance (Oakland Port)...... 18 HEALTH & COMPLIANCE (909) 982-9898 Ext. Lee Brown – Executive Director / Chief Operating Officer...... 213 Expanded Opioid Testing Causes Safety Concerns & Additional Medical Lorraine Perluss – Executive Assistant ...... 221 Clearance Reporting...... 20 Dianna Webster – Director of Accounting and Human Resources...... 219 LA COALICION Joe Rajkovacz – Governmental Affairs & Communications Director...... 227 Sandra Medina – AADT Client Services Director (Español)...... 217 Reporte de Presidente - Danny Rocha...... 22 Lisa Heaps – AADT Senior Customer Service Specialist...... 224 Programa de Prueba de Drogas – Sandy Medina...... 22 Rich Roth – Technology Director...... 222 Asesor En Transporte En La Fronteriza - Nelly Meraz...... 23 Vivian Mercader – Accounting Rep (Español)...... 220 GENERAL NEWS Olivia Garcia – Collection Site Coordinator (Español)...... 225 Brenda Salazar – Receptionist / Office Assistant (Español)...... 218 Cover Story: High School Takes on Commercial Truck Rudy Navarrete – Membership Services Director (Español) ...... (909) 329-5673 Driver Shortage...... 24 How Real Are Electric Trucks?...... 25 ADVERTISERS INDEX (Alphabetical Order) California Changing the A & R Tarpaulins Inc...... 7 Way It Counts Traffic...... 27 Clean Diesel Specialists...... 1 Freight Rates Continue to Climb, Especially in LTL Prices...... 29 CoreMark Insurance Services...... 3 Uber Tests Self Driving Trucks for Deliveries in Arizona...... 31 Law Offices of Anthony G. Patchett...... 14, 17 False Claims Act Case Ends in Settlement for $1 Mil.+...... 31 Superior Trailer Works...... IFC, 46 Toyota Enters Class 7 & 8 Construction Truck Segment...... 33 VDO RoadLog...... 2 Operators of DOTAuthority.com Motor Carrier Registration Service WSTA GROUP SERVICES Settle FTC Charges That They Misled Small Businesses Using Fake American Alliance Authority & Compliance...... 9 Government Affiliation...... 33 American Alliance Drug Testing...... 15 Can Somebody Hack Your Autonomous Truck?...... 34 CleanFleets.net – Mobile Smoke Testing /ARB Consult...... 16 For Better Health, Just Add Water...... 35 Dedicated Funding...... 13 Opinion - “How Badly Do You Want It?”...... 36 Goodyear/Dunlop Tires...... 18 MEMBERS CORNER Michelin Tires...... 19 Pacific Enterprise Bank...... 6 l New Affiliate Spotlight...... 37 Trucker’sEdge Load Board...... 43 l Association Members Anniversary...... 38 Unified Carrier Registration System Service...... 37 l Affiliate Directory...... 40 WSTA Employee Health Plans...... 32 l New Association Members...... 42 WSTA Insurance Services...... 10 l Obituaries...... 42 WSTA PAC...... 30 l State Officers Directory...... 42 WSTA Transportation Advisor Hotline...... 20 l ClassifiedAds ...... 43 Western Transportation News USPS 024-435, is published six time per year by Western States Trucking Association (WSTA) Periodicals postage paid at the Upland, CA post office About the cover: and additional entry post office. For a number of years everyone has heard the phrase “driver POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to: shortage.” There is a large bit of skepticism on the part of many in Western Transportation News (WTN), 334 N. Euclid Avenue, Upland, CA 91786-6031 the trucking community that a “driver shortage” is real. Regardless of Volume 77 No. 3/4 – Copyright 2018 by WSTA. All rights reserved. No part of this issue may your point-of-view on the “driver shortage” the fact remains that baby be reproduced by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. If you are boomers are retiring en-masse and younger people are not lining not a registered member of WSTA and would like a subscription, please send $48 (within the up to become truck drivers. Part of the issue is a federal prohibition United States). Single issue price is $10. The views and opinions and information source contained herein are those of the author(s) from anyone under 21 years of age being able to cross a state line. and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of WTN Magazines. WSTA does not Probably a bigger issue is certainly insurance companies mandating endorse or independently evaluate or verify the accuracy, reliability, or timeliness of any content, who you can hire. Our feature article highlights an innovative driver product, or other information contained in this publication. WSTA is not responsible and will have no liability for any reliance by the reader on such information and under no circumstances training program at a California high school that is opening a pathway does any such information constitute the advice of or a recommendation by WSTA, to take a for high school grads to at least consider a career in trucking – not a particular course of action or inaction. Some Stock Images by: (c) 2018, McClatchy – Tribune bad idea in our opinion. Information Services [email protected] [email protected] WSTA Insurance Services – A Great Idea! Open for Business on April 10 th, 2018 I was reading a local newspaper article about Patterson We are all very excited to announce that after about 6 High School which is just west of where I live. It turns out months of discussions, meetings, and votes…then putting Patterson High School has the first of its kind in the na- together all the requirements necessary from the ground up tion, a Class A truck driving instruction class as part of its to start a new business, we are formally announcing the es- curriculum. tablishment of the WSTA Insurances Services Corporation, doing business as WSTA Insurance Services. I thought what a fantastic idea for high school students to take a class and learn how to drive truck and learn about We received confirmation on April 3, that our new state the industry more in-depth. I’ve always wondered if there licensed No. (0M27693) as an insurance producer/entity was such a type of class but never in my wildest dreams was approved by the California Department of Insurance. We are presently in the process of binding E&O and GL in- thought it would be in my backyard here in the Central surance for the business, generating a PR Newswire Press Valley. I’d sure like to contact the instructor to sit in the Release, turning on the new insurance website with the class and observe. license number, finalizing all related ads for internal and This type of curriculum intrigues me because I’m remind- external use, printing temporary business cards for Chris Mitchell who will be the licensed producer and Managing ed of the time when I was in college not knowing what I was Director of sales and marketing. Chris brings 27 plus years going to do over the summer. One day at school there was a insurance industry experience to the business unit. small ad on a billboard by Morning Star and they were looking for seasonal tomato truck drivers earning 3 to $4,000 a We remain very optimistic that this business unit will soon become a great presence within the trucking indus- month during the summer. At the time I already had my CDL try insurance market. I want to thank the WSTA Executive and had some experience, but I know I would have benefited Committee and Board for their support, this business unit a lot if I had been able to take a class like this one. I did drive will no doubt become a valuable part of this association’s WSTA GROUP SERVICES for Morning Star for one season and it was a great experience. future! See the related ad and Chris’ story on pages 10 American Alliance Authority & Compliance...... 9 I made some good money to supplement my college tuition and 11! American Alliance Drug Testing...... 15 expense. CleanFleets.net – Mobile Smoke Testing /ARB Consult...... 16 AADT Updates – Dedicated Funding...... 13 There is constant talk about a “driver shortage” and re- Expanded Opioid Testing Causes Goodyear/Dunlop Tires...... 18 gardless of ones opinion surrounding the issue, the fact re- Michelin Tires...... 19 Safety Concerns & Additional Pacific Enterprise Bank...... 6 mains many young people either do not want to drive a truck Medical Clearance Reporting ASSOCIATION at any rate of pay or they are effectively blocked from being Trucker’sEdge Load Board...... 43 AADT has seen many “negative results” with “safety Unified Carrier Registration System Service...... 37 able to enter the industry because of multiple factors. Lack of concerns” reported out to our C/TPA clients since January WSTA Employee Health Plans...... 32 training should not be one of those factors. st WSTA Insurance Services...... 10 1 , 2018 when the expanded opioid testing was mandated as part of the DOT-5 panel urine test. The major- WSTA PAC...... 30 I’d like to thank Dave Dein and Patterson High School WSTA Transportation Advisor Hotline...... 20 ity of concerns have come from mostly prescriptions of staff for filling a great void in the trucking industry. On page Hydrocodone, a very commonly prescribed painkiller 24 of the magazine we have a nice article from Dave describ- however; there have also been a few negatives with “safety ing his program. concern” results for Oxycodone and Hydromorphone. On an additional note, on Wednesday March 21st California These new regulations now require the MRO to wait 5 congressman Duncan Hunter introduced legislation in the US days for a response to the “Medical Clearance to Preform House titled the “DRIVE-Safe Act” that would reform a de- Safety Sensitive Job Function” Form and if the donor does cades old federal prohibition against 18-21 year olds being not have their physician either contact our MROs and/ or send back the medical clearance form signed by their allowed to cross-state lines with a CDL. The bill does contain physician; then the MRO has to re-send the result with some checks and balances and isn’t a blank check to simply the MROs’ concern form a second time. If there is no re- allow 18-21 year olds to cross state lines, but it would open a sponse, the correspondence/information history is than pathway for those same students at Patterson High School to stored in the clients file…and no other action is taken. See enter a career they’ve been effectively blocked from pursuing. complete article on page 20.

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www.pacificenterprisebank.com Executive Director’s Report – Continued from page 5 ELD Heaven or Hell? A Safety Improvement or by the end of March, one source projected 40,000 citations Anti-Small Business Scheme! will have been issued nationwide all during a “soft-enforce- The only heaven part of this regulation seems to be for ment” period! big OTR carriers trying to compete with aggressive owner- It’s kind of a head-shaker that FMCSA has not really been operators. We’ve seen the term “safety” continually thrown proactive at testing and certifying that all these ELD devices out there but data we have gone through tells a much dif- and software preform minimally to an established standard. ferent story. We suggest that you go to this report, 2017 There’s about 250 self-certified ELD vendors with about 350 Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics (page 37). versions of their ELD platforms. For instance Rand McNally The fatality rate in California in 2014 and 2015 (the last full has 6 separate models alone, VisTracks, Inc. has 16 models years of fatality statistics)… for instance is .09 per million that run on two phone platforms the iOS (Apple) and Android CMV miles traveled (2015)….versus .10 in 2014. There are (Samsung). InTouch has 9 etc. Go to this website if you are 39 states with higher rates .10 to .49 (North Dakota), 1 state interested: that is tied (Virginia) and only 10 states with lower rates .03 https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/hours-service/elds/equipment-registration (Rhode Island) to .08. The state with the most fatalities was Texas with 593, as opposed to California with a population Funny…there have been no revoked ELD’s… yet! 48% larger than Texas…which had 313. https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/ELD/List/Revoked So will ELDs push these rates down….I guess we will So does anyone really think or believe that law enforcement see but many believe NO! The FMCSA should be focus- will know how to operate all 350 devices and software…NOT! ing on distracted drivers and anti-collision technology…on We’re of the opinion that the ELD enforcement community all vehicles and stop with all the useless truck regulations should give those truckers that have made purchases of any of framed in safety. these dedicated ELD’s or mobile phone software a 6 mo. to a The ELD regulation is in my opinion a continued ves- year to get them all figured out and certified by the FMCSA and tige of the Obama regulatory administration hell and it will that the state of California should also support such a delay. We continue to wreak havoc on the trucking industry. One has also support training the trainers….as all this soft enforcement to wonder why a regulation with such widespread impact on has shown a total lack of understanding about the regulation, the arguably over-regulated trucking industry was allowed delay mandates and correct code violations! Not to mention to be implemented in such a haphazard way. that few seem to understand all the different devices and how to I read in one of the trucking publications that at the end download the HOS data from all of them. There’s a lot at stake of February 27,000 ELD related violations were issued, and here and none of it should be taken lightly! Continued on page 8 ASSOCIATION

Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 7 Executive Director’s Report – Continued from page 7 Presently, our biggest concerns are: Drivers primarily running under the short-haul (100- or 1. The lack of a technology standard and approval pro- 150-air-mile radius) HOS exemptions do not need to use an cess for ELDs by the FMCSA ELD. But if these drivers do occasionally run outside the radius, they can avoid using an ELD as long as they are not 2. Lack of training of the commercial vehicle safety required to keep a logbook or ROD’s for more than 8-days industry on all these devices and software in any 30-day period. We believe that there is a large group 3. The DATA-Q appeal process log jam that all these of trucks (construction and other vocational) that in fact will tickets are going to cause not have to install ELD’s. On April 1st, law enforcement officials throughout the What is the Short-Haul / 100 Air-Mile U.S. (including CHP) will be utilizing federal violation Radius Exception? codes relating to Hours-of-Service tracking….395.1 (a) There are a number of requirements to qualify for the through 395.36, violation of many of these code sections short-haul exception from §395.1(e): comes with a 5 (out of 10) severity weight in the Hours of • Operate within a 100/150 air-mile radius of the nor- Service Compliance BASIC in the CSA Safety Measurement mal work-reporting location (100 air-miles if you System. If violations come with an associated out-of-ser- are a commercial driver’s license (CDL) driver and vice order, an extra two points will be added to the severity 150 air-miles for drivers without a CDL). weighting, meaning it will have a greater impact on carrier • Start and return to the same location. measures/scores in that SMS category. Here are the three subsection violations that carry a 5 point weight: • 12 consecutive hours of duty time.

ASSOCIATION • These additional rules also apply to short-haul • 395.15 (a) (2) – Driver not using the AOBRD in- drivers: stalled/required by the carrier, • Drive time cannot exceed 11 hours driving time • 395.15 (b) – Information requirements for the on- with the 12 on-duty hours. board recording device not met, and • Must log a minimum of 10 consecutive hours of off- • 395.15 (f) – Driver failing to reconstruct/obtain log duty time after each shift. info in event of device failure. If the driver cannot meet these conditions, they will have to complete a logbook for the day as the vehicle is WSTA Supports Increasing considered a CMV. the ELD 100-Air Mile Radius How to Compare Air or Nautical Miles Exemption to 150-Air Miles to Land or Statute Miles There are presently 32 HOS questions and related The term air mile, also known as a nautical mile, refers Guidance in the federal HOS regulatory Guidance and at to the distance between two locations measured by travel- least one-third of the questions deal with the 100-air-mile ra- ing from one to the other over water or in the air. The term dius exemption. See https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/ land mile, also known as a statute mile, refers to the distance title49/part/395. between two locations measured by traveling between them in an imaginary straight line on the ground. It’s important to Some states have adopted the federal ELD regulations to also note there is the actual trip or travel distance in miles apply to “intrastate” trucking by reference or legislation, such too because seldom do roads link two points directly. as Texas and Wisconsin. California has not adopted such regulations so far, but on February 7, we did have a meeting with Because of the difference in the way the two are measured, CHP to discuss intrastate ELD regulations and their adoption. an air or nautical mile is established as a distance of 6,076 feet while a land mile distance is 5,280 feet or about 13% shorter. In fact, we support and intend on lobbying the DOT to ex- You can use standard formulas to compare air miles to land pand the ELD 100-air-mile exemption to 150-air-miles for in- miles. terstate trucking/bus operations. By unify the regulation to 150 On page 9 are three examples of the expansion of the air- for all interstate and states that also utilize the 150-air miles, miles to 150. We have chosen the ports of LA/Long Beach should make education and enforcement easier and cleaner! and Oakland, and Otay Mesa’s Port of Entry as largely in- Incidental, while I was writing this article it came to our terstate trucking centers and the range change from each attention that the AGC of America announced that they were location. Intrastate truckers can utilize the ranges to deter- going to ask DOT-FMCSA for all construction trucking to mine whether or not they will be subject once California be exempted entirely from the ELD regulations. Surely we adopts this regulation. Please note that these maps are esti- would support such an effort, we do believe that that is go- mates only and should not be utilized as exact distances. The ing to be a heavy-lift and the 150-air-mile exemption would Distance-between-Cities website is a good website to utilize be a reasonable compromise. to determine distances between two points.

8 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org Volkswagen Truck Likely to Buy the Remainder of Navistar Andreas Renschler, VW’s truck chairman, told reporters April 16, that the Braunschweig, Germany based vehicle- maker thought buying the rest of the Lisle, Ill., based truck company Navistar, would be “a good idea.” Volkswagen is looking at many strategic options since firing Matthias Müller as chief executive recently and re- placing him with Herbert Diess, formerly head of the company’s VW car brand. VW also is considering spinning its truck and bus operations which includes MAN, Scania and VW Caminhoes e Onibusoff as a separate company in a public stock offering. It would then be able to use the proceeds to acquire Navistar. Navistar has market value of about $4 billion. Volkswagen Truck & Bus purchased 17 percent of Navistar for $256 million last year and gained two seats 100 & 150 air/nautical mile radius extending from the Port of Los Angeles on the company’s board of directors. The partnership is expected to create $500 million in volume purchasing savings for Navistar over the first five years. The companies also are working together to develop a new line of diesel truck engines and electric trucks. Purchasing Navistar, which sells the International Truck and IC Bus brands, is a logical move, analysts said. Volkswagen doesn’t have a truck presence in North America. Other European truck companies like Daimler and Volvo have followed a similar game plan and gobbled up legacy U.S. truck brands. Daimler, the German company that owns Mercedes- Benz, has the Freightliner and Western Star brands in the 100 & 150 air/nautical mile radius extending from Otay Mesa U.S. Volvo, the Swedish company, owns Mack Trucks. Based on the current ownership structure, VW can raise its stake 19.9 percent before needing approval from Navistar’s board to cross the 20 percent level. Navistar’s other major shareholders include Icahn Associates Holding LLC at 17 percent and MHR Fund Management LLC at 16 percent.

to 6,076 feet or 1,852 meters. Thus, the 100 air miles are equivalent to 115.1 statute miles or 185.2 kilometers and 150 air miles is equivalent to 172.6 road miles! This website was utilized for calculating these distances: http://www.distancebetweencities.us/ Footnote: The History of Nautical Miles – A nautical mile is a unit of measurement used by navigators in shipping and aviation. It is the average length of one minute of one degree along a great circle of the Earth. One nautical mile corresponds to one minute of latitude. Thus, degrees of latitude are approximately 60 nautical miles apart. By contrast, the distance of nautical miles between degrees of longitude is not constant because lines of longitude become closer together as they 100 & 150 air/nautical mile radius extending from the Port of Oakland converge at the poles. Nautical miles are typically abbreviated with the symbols nm, NM or nmi. Until 1929, there was not an internationally For regulatory purposes in FMCSA regulations Part agreed upon distance or definition for the nautical mile. In that year, the 395 (Hours of Service of Drivers), the Guidance notes in First International Extraordinary Hydrographic Conference was held in Question 12 which asks: What constitutes the 100-air- Monaco and at the conference, it was determined that the international mile radius exemption (for these regulatory purposes)? nautical mile would be exactly 6,076 feet (1,852 meters). Currently this is the only definition in use widely and it is the one that is accepted by the DOT HOS Guidance: The term “air mile” is interna- International Hydrographic Organization and the International Bureau of tionally defined as a “nautical mile” which is equivalent Weights and Measures.

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INSURANCEWSTA SERVICES A WESTERN STATES TRUCKING ASSOCIATION COMPANY Chris Mitchell O: (909) 982-9898 x230 E: [email protected] California License #0M27693 10 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org Scott Pruitt Will End EPA’s Introducing WSTA Use of ‘Secret Science’ to Insurance Services Justify Regulations WSTA Insurance Services official- By MICHAEL BASTASCH, The Daily Caller, March 19, 2018 ly began operations on April 4, 2018. We expect to be fully operational by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator April 10th. Our primary focus will be Scott Pruitt will soon end his agency’s use of “secret sci- to provide business insurance services, and consulting to the ence” to craft regulations. trucking industry. We offer all lines of insurance to include “We need to make sure their (EPA’s) data and method- property & casualty insurance, workers compensation, oc- ology are published as part of the record,” Pruitt said in an cupational accident and employee benefits/health plans. We exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation work with companies of all sizes from owner operators to (The-DCNF). Adding that, “Otherwise, it’s not transparent. large fleets and brokers. Our offerings include exclusive and It’s not objectively measured, and that’s important.” semi-exclusive products from top tier insurance carriers. Pruitt will reverse long-standing EPA policy allowing reg- As part of the Western States Trucking Association, we are ulators to rely on non-public scientific data in crafting rules. member owned and leverage the expertise of all the operat- Such studies have been used to justify tens of billions of dollars’ ing units of WSTA. Special thanks to the executive commit- worth of regulations in the U.S. and especially in California. tee and board. Craving more savings and expertise? Please contact Chris Mitchell at [email protected] EPA regulators would only be allowed to consider scien- or 909-982-9898 ext 230 for more information. tific studies that make their data available for public scrutiny under Pruitt’s new policy. Also, EPA-funded studies would need to make all their data public. EPA has primarily relied on two 1990s studies linking “When we do contract that science out, sometimes the fine particulate pollution to premature death. Neither stud- findings are published; we make that part of our rule-making ies have made their data public, but EPA used their findings processes, but then we don’t publish the methodology and to justify sweeping and very costly air quality regulations. data that went into those findings because the third party Reported benefits from EPA rules are “mostly at- who did the study won’t give it to us,” Pruitt added. tributable to the reduction in public exposure to fine par- “And we’ve said that’s fine – we’re changing that as ticulate matter,” according to the White House Office of well,” Pruitt told The-DCNF. Management and Budget report. That’s equivalent to tens of billions of dollars. Conservatives have long criticized EPA for relying on scientific studies that published their findings but not the In fact, one of EPA’s most expensive regulation on the underlying data. However, Democrats and environmental books, called Mercury & Air Toxics Standards or MATS, activists have challenged past attempts to bring transparency derived most of its estimated benefits from reducing particu- to studies used in rule making. late matter not from reducing mercury from predominately coal-fired power plant emissions, which the rule was osten- Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith pushed legislation sibly crafted to address. to end the use of what he calls “secret science” at EPA. Pruitt instituted another policy in 2017 backed by Smith against EPA estimated MATS would cost $8.2 billion but yield between $28 billion to $77 billion in public health benefits. ASSOCIATION EPA-funded scientists serving on agency advisory boards. It’s a similar story for the Clean Power Plan, which EPA “If we use a third party to engage in scientific review or estimated would cost $8.4 billion and yield from $14 billion inquiry, and that’s the basis of rulemaking, you and every to $34 billion in health and climate benefits. American citizen across the country deserve to know what’s Democrats and environmental groups have largely op- the data, what’s the methodology that was used to reach that posed attempts to require EPA to rely on transparent scien- conclusion that was the underpinning of what – rules that tific data. Said data would restrict the amount of studies EPA were adopted by this agency,” Pruitt explained. can use, but a major objection is making data public would Pruitt’s pending science transparency policy mirrors reveal confidential patient data, opponents argue. Smith’s HONEST Act, which passed the House in March “A lot of the data that EPA uses to protect public health 2017. Smith’s office was pleased to hear Pruitt was adopting and ensure that we have clean air and clean water relies on another policy the House Committee on Science, Space and data that cannot be publicly released,” Union of Concerned Technology chairman championed. Scientists representative Yogin Kothari told E&E News. “It “The chairman has long worked toward a more open really hamstrings the ability of the EPA to do anything, to and transparent rule-making process at EPA, and he looks fulfill its mission,” Mr. Kothari added. forward to any announcement from Administrator Pruitt that Milloy, however, countered and argued it’s a “red her- would achieve that goal,” committee spokeswoman Thea ring” to claim that forcing regulators to use public sci- McDonald told The-DCNF. ence data would harm patient privacy. “The availability Junk science crusader Steve Milloy also called on EPA to of such data sets is nothing new,” said Milloy, publisher end its use of “secret science” in rule making, especially when of JunkScience.com and senior fellow at the Energy and it comes to studies on the toxicity of fine particulates in the air. Environmental Legal Institute. Continued on page 12 Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 11 hand of enviros and their demonizing of trucks as [email protected] the source of every socio- economic problem we WSTA’s Media Outreach face (pun intended). WSTA E-newsletter is Significant In August of 2016 We Reach Thousands of Truckers Weekly we launched the WSTA I wear two hats for the association: government af- e-newsletter. It is sent fairs and communications. My update in this issue of the out every Monday morn- magazine focuses extensively on the “communications” hat ing to nearly 5,000 sub- I wear. While the magazine has been the primary method scribers. Ours is pretty of communicating with members over the years, that is unique as most associa- changing. tions only communicate Many people today prefer to get their information elec- their own internal news that is shaded to their points-of- tronically and we’ve developed numerous tools to accom- view. We utilize our e-newsletter as an “aggregator” of the modate that preference. Today, the WSTA has one of the previous week’s most relevant news related to the trucking most robust communications platforms utilized by any as- industry. We use multiple sourcing and do include news sociation. Only the ATA and OOIDA as associations have we’re well aware many of our members will disagree with. ASSOCIATION more extensive platforms than us when you consider print, We have received complaints and frankly they are be- radio, social media and e-newsletters. yond petty. Complaints mostly are associated with sourcing While the magazine is published bi-monthly, we are of news, for instance; one complainer told us if we we’re limited by space in the amount of content we can push out. going to source Fox News we could remove them from our Utilizing our other tools allows us to push out significantly subscriber list. Guess they had no problem with us sourcing more content and on a timely basis. NPR, CNN, or even the New York Times – which we do. We removed them from our subscriber lists since it is hardly Social Media worth dealing with anyone so easily offended based on who The association has three primary social media sites on is reporting on an issue. Facebook that are also linked to Twitter. Our main page is The audience reached with the e-newsletter is very dif- the association page on Facebook and I try to only post a ferent from that of our social media pages. We do not limit couple of articles per day of relevant “trucking” related top- who can receive the e-newsletter (anyone can sign-up for it) ics – I do stay away from pure politics purposefully. When I but the primary audience are members of WSTA or AADT. took over our social media we had just a few dozen followers, today it is approaching 2,500 and we do not buy “likes” as many other pages do. No trucking association on the west coast has as many followers as our pages do. Our weekly reach does average 20,000. Our single best week ever had a reach just shy of 150,000! (that was the picture at the opening of the new CHP inspection facility at Mountain Pass south of Las Vegas). Radio On average I am a guest commentator once every three weeks on the Sirius XM 146 Road Dog trucking channel. I have been doing radio for nearly 12 years and the audience

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EPA - Continued from page 11 “The state of California, for example, makes such data available under the moniker, ‘Public Use Death Files,’” Milloy said. “We used such data in the form of over two million anonymized death certificates in our recent California study on particulates and death.” I never really know what articles will get the most trac- “Opponents of data transparency are just trying to hide tion with our followers but virtually anything we post re- the data from independent scrutiny,” Milloy added. “But the lated to CARB or EPA news tends to go viral – there is still studies that use this data are taxpayer-financed, and they are a great deal of “anger” with truck owners over the heavy- used to regulate the public.”

12 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org Mostly, I discuss topics that are unique to the west-coast OOIDA’s legal counsel, Paul Cullen Jr. from Washington and while the association hasn’t necessarily taken an offi- D.C. delivered a spirited legal argument against CHP mak- cial position on everything discussed on air, I am very clear ing the adoption stating the CA Constitution has more pri- when I am offering my own personal opinion on a subject. vacy protections for individuals than the US Constitution. The audience is vast as you can imagine and it does OOIDA has been a fierce national critic of the mandate but lead to new members and new authority clients. As I write to date has not managed to alter any aspect of the rule. The this, we picked up a new member because of this radio pro- CTA supported CHP making the adoption. gram trusting us to process their motor carrier authority applications. I did not make a statement as we are aware that CHP has little choice in making the adoption and we’ve been working We certainly are aware that not every member takes advantage of what is available and would encourage you to on another track to expand California’s 100 air-mile radius check your spam/junk in-box if you are not receiving our e- exemption from needing to complete a log book to 150 air newsletter. You can also sign-up all your operations people miles. This is directly related to a coming ELD mandate in to receive the e-newsletter because often times it is the best California for “intrastate” truckers. The WSTA is no fan of method for communicating breaking industry news, unique ELD’s but our strategy of engagement is solely responsible filing deadlines, or just keeping them aware of what is hap- for the federal exemption from the ELD mandate for own- pening in their industry. ers of pre-2000 MY trucks. While that exemption is virtu- Call the office if you are not receiving the e-newsletter ally useless in California it has had some very interesting and we can make sure we have your correct email address. side effects for many of our members having to get rid of older trucks. Nationally, the used truck market for quality CHP Hearing on ELD’s On Thursday April 5th I attended a public hearing at the pre-2000 MY trucks (California trucks in particular) has sky state capitol regarding a rulemaking by CHP to adopt lan- rocketed. guage into the CA vehicle code allowing them to enforce the As readers of our e-newsletter are aware, we have as- ELD mandate on “interstate” truckers. sembled a support letter for our position to expand California When CHP proposes a rule, any interested party can re- short-haul exemption to 150 air miles (permissible under fed- quest a public hearing and in this case the Owner-Operator eral regulations) that has been signed onto by many major Independent Driver’s Association requested the hearing. associations and motor carriers. We are optimistic of success Only two organizations testified at the short hearing, the and this effort could serve as a blue-print in other states to California Trucking Association and OOIDA. moderate the impact of the federally imposed ELD mandate. ASSOCIATION • QUICK APPROVALS • COMPETITIVE RATES & TERMS • FINANCING FOR ALL TYPES OF EQUIPMENT INCLUDING TRUCKS, TRAILERS, & Leroy Onishi CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT Business Development Regional Manager • FINANCING OPTIONS FOR ANY 17341 Yorkshire Ave CREDIT SITUATION Yorba Linda, CA 92886

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Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 13 Calexico CHP Industry Day On Feb. 27th I attended CHP’s Industry Day held at the Calexico inspection facility. Commander Martinez and his team [email protected] work hard every year to put on this th fantastic event. With this type of 50 Anniversary of World Ag event, truckers learn what CHP is Expo in Tulare, CA looking for when conducting an I spent Feb. 12-14th exhibiting for WSTA and AADT inspection. During this event, the at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA. Jay Pocock, Superior CHP team allowed a small group of Trailer has been generous in allowing us the ability to us to setup booths. display by sharing their booth at their prime location at (Me with Lt. Commander The WSTA has developed a the Expo. Superior has been attending the Expo for ap- Fernando Martinez) solid relationship with this particu- proximately 20 years lar CHP inspection facility. The World Ag Expo They have in-turn helped is the largest outdoor ag- us with our annual scholar- ricultural exposition. ship event in Fontana. Each year it is held at the International Agri-Center in Tulare and is still thriv-

ASSOCIATION ing after 50 years. The three day event offers a va- riety of seminars showcas- ing all the latest and great- (The Industry Day event packed the est agricultural harvesting (L-R: Leroy Onishi, Dedicated Funding; house with many truckers who were John Murray, M&J Transportation (Center: WSTA affiliate members equipment. This event is Tom and Gabriela Davila and I there to gather good information. Great Services; Mike Espinosa, Superior crowd and excellent Q & A session) so massive that it takes Trailer; me; Jay Pocock, Superior Trailer) hanging with the locals) several days to experience all that the show has to offer. The group pictured is ready to respond any inquiries. LAW OFFICES OF ANTHONY G. PATCHETT, SBN# 090985 Leroy brings decades of knowledge in the industry of fi- P.O. Box 5232, Glendale, CA 91221-1099 nancing and has been very helpful to association members [email protected] from day one. John Murray is a third generation trucker Phone: 818-243-8863 which adds to his great ability to salesmen. He is a long- Fax: 818-243-9157 time member of the WSTA and is a strong advocate for the association. Mike Espinosa is the lead trailer sales- “…and justice for all.” man for Superior Trailer and his passion to match the ATENCIÓN CAMIONEROS!!!! – EL IMPUESTO EXCISO right equipment with the right companies has continued ESTATAL GARANTIZADO REEMBOLSABA HASTA 32 to make Superior Trailer CENTAVOS POR GALLON A USUARIOS CALIFICADOS successful. Jay Pocock, DE COMBUSTIBLE DIESEL. SIN CONTINGENCIAS O owner of Superior Trailer. HONORARIOS ANTICIPADOS. LA CUOTA ES EL 40% Jay is a very hands on DEL IMPORTE DEL REEMBOLSO PARA SOLICITAR business owner, a longtime UNA CUENTA PERSONALIZADA, PREPARAR / WSTA member and sup- ENVIAR TODOS LOS FORMULARIOS / DOCUMENTOS porter of the association. REQUERIDOS Y PRESENTAR RECLAMOS PARA On behalf of the WSTA/ SU REEMBOLSO. LLAME PARA VERIFICAR SI AADT, I want to thank Jay (L-R: WTSA President Danny Rocha CALIFICA Y O PARA MAYOR INFORMACIÓN. Pocock for his hospitality. with his son Jace and me) Anthony G. Patchett, Attorney at Law -Retired Assistant Head Deputy, Danny is the 2018-2019 President for the WSTA Environmental Crimes Division/OSHA Division and he also the chairman of the Modesto WSTA chapter. Steve Cooley, Attorney at Law Retired- District Attorney, Los Angeles Being located in the Central Valley it is important for County Danny to attend these types of events in order to stay on top of what is happening in the agricultural/transporta- Jaime A. Barragan, former State of California Auditor/Criminal Investigator 661-900-0461 SE HABLA ESPANOL tion industry. I’d also like to give a special shout out to my friend Jace for always coming to show support for Jesse Marquez, Executive Director, Coalition for a Safe Environment his dad; it’s pretty amazing that I’ve known Jace since he 310-590-0177 SE HABLA ESPANOL was just three years old. (anuncio de abogado)

14 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org educate the individuals who will enter these industries, never are the recently graduated made CEO upon matriculation. Because the industry knows an equal or greater component is experience Cell: (916) 768-0329 [email protected] coming from both good and bad experiences over time. Another choice for consultation by regulators will be the Regulation Nation big leaders in the particular industry. Their goal is to create Recently I read of two fatal barriers to entry into their market. They by definition are a accidents within two very heav- small group who are well funded and have access to decision ily regulated industries. One makers and political types. Their desire is to shape regula- was a sightseeing helicopter tion to suit their interests which besides limiting new entries service in New York City that is to drive the costs up to the smaller members of the industry had a mechanical problem and to eliminate or acquire them to increase overall bottom line. was forced down into the Hudson River. All five passengers Regulators are impressed by this group’s ability to provide a drown. The pilot escaped by using the quick release on his belt great deal of educational experiences and materials. and through his separate door. The recovery team was hindered Next up, the lawyers. Their goal is to make sure the reg- in their efforts due to the difficulty in freeing the victims from ulations are written in such a way that no clear and simple their seat restraints. The seats do not have a quick release buckle explanation is codified, that way rules can benefit either side as found on all other aircraft, automobiles. It’s the regulation. depending on the court and the law firm. Lawyers from both sides create billable hours in all cases. They are diligent to The other was the collapse of a 950-ton pedestrian bridge make sure that included are provisions for exemptions, ex- under construction in Florida. In this case the horizontal sepa- ceptions and waivers. The procedures must be ponderous, rated from the verticals and crashed down upon passing traffic time consuming and well hidden. on the street below. The early information would seem that the normal procedures were followed, as per the regulations. I be- Last and by all means least of the participants are the lieve we will find a great many problems and procedures were regulated entities. They have the fewest resources and the dismissed. Regulations will also be found to be a major failure. least amount of time; they are trying to run a business that are successful and employ folks and have potential for growth. We in the transportation and construction industries Often due to the successful efforts of the others it’s not even struggle under this burden. Regulation for safety and envi- clear which regulations apply to their particular endeavor. A ronment as well as legal requirements are understood and ac- threat or citation from the regulators will focus the thinking. cepted. Who makes the regulations and how, is the problem. The regulated are usually given 3 minutes to provide input. Regulators are specialists’ in regulation, not specific’s. Regulators pay no attention. You are not an expert. They know little about making carpet, donuts or providing This is how you end up with six dead in Florida and five services such as, airlines, trucking or healthcare. In fact, dead in New York City. Experts knew better. The Regulation their lack of knowledge is argued to make them “objective.” Industry will bear no blame or consequence. BTW, the How then do they create regulation on something they know National Transportation Safety Board immediately called nothing about? They consult so called experts. for a ban on the type of safety belt harnesses responsible for Academia is employed, universities and schools who study not allowing the victims to escape in the NYC helicopter and offer abstract ideas and perceptions. Of course, they often crash during a “doors open” flight.

NEED A RANDOM DRUG OR ALCOHOL TESTING PROGRAM FOR YOU OR YOUR DRIVERS? SUBDIVISION NEWS SUBDIVISION In accordance with the DOT FMCSA 49 CFR Parts 40 and 382 Regulations: “If you are in a safety-sensitive position and hold a CDL, operate a vehicle of over 26,001 GVWR or tow with a combined GVWR of over 26,001 lbs. or haul hazardous materials or transport more than 15 passengers, you must be in a random drug & alcohol program” In addition our program satisfi es the requirements for the: l Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation (TDLR) Tow Act HB 2094 – Tow Operators and Vehicle Storage Facilities l California Highway Patrol (CHP) Tow Rotation Agreement – Tow Industry l Public Utilities Commission of the State of California – Charter Passenger Carriers

Special isconts o (909) 982-8409 memes o WSTA ote “Se Habla Español” tae associations aadrugtesting.com Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 15 to treat diesel vehicles similar to way that your gasoline vehicles have been treated for decades (i.e. pass a smog check, Cleanfleets.net (916) 520-6040 - Ext 102 [email protected] make repairs if you fail, or the vehicle won’t be legal to operate). The major ways that the CARB proposal will impact CARB’s Reaction to CTA WSTA members are: Lawsuit Expected Soon • Lower limits and forcing repairs promptly: The By Sean Edgar, CleanFleets.net current 40% to 55% upper limit would drop to 5% On January 31st, the 5th Appellate District of the and require the vehicle put out of service until a California State Appeals Court released their decision in passing test is done and proof of repairs kept. John Lawson Rock and Oil & CTA’s lawsuit against CARB. • Mandatory reporting: TRUCRS would be the The court ruled in CTA’s favor, finding that CARB erred gateway to upload test results. My sense is that near- in both the required envi- ly all WSTA members already report into TRUCRS, ronmental and economic so while the proposal would likely require a few analyses which accom- extra clicks of the mouse, I would not anticipate a panied the 2014 amend- significant amount of time per truck or per fleet to SUBDIVISION NEWS ments to the Truck and prove compliance (probably less time than taking Bus Regulation. April your gasoline vehicle to a smog check station). and May are expected • Training requirements: For-hire testing services to be busy months for (like CleanFleets or other affiliates of the associa- small to medium sized tion) would be required to undergo training at a motor carriers as CARB CARB approved program (online or in-person) is expected to reverse every four years. As a former Smog Check Station several flexibility provi- owner, I think this is not a big deal. As a matter of sions while tightening fact any company (like ours) that charges a trucker emissions standards and (like you) for a service should have competency, in- reporting. surance, training and stand by their work strongly CARB was sued by Lawson/CTA, who objected to the enough that they will undergo an audit of the emis- 2014 amendment process and outcomes. The primary im- sions program with and for you. You hire profes- pact on WSTA members in the near term is expected to be sionals to represent you and help you and you are en- the dropping of any remaining “low use” vehicles from the titled to competent people whether it is CleanFleets 2018 maximum of 5,000 miles in CA down to 1,000. I under- or anyone else charging you for a service. stand that an announcement from CARB on this will come CleanFleets continues to monitor and assist members soon. So for members that have any of these left you should on all these issues and welcomes your comments. You can be aware that running over 1,000 miles in 2018 may render email [email protected] with any questions related you unable to re-register for low use in 2019 or beyond. to this article or call 916-520-6040 Ext 102 for discounted There were other areas in the 2014 amendments that services for WSTA members. have now expired and it is unclear how or if CARB could retroactively penalize a fleet that chose what was legal for the 2015-2018 TRUCRS reporting cycles. For example, some members benefitted from the “Good Faith Effort” de- termination that provided some additional time to comply. Similarly, small fleets (three or fewer trucks) got additional time as well as the “CT/WT” low mileage construction trucks received a longer PM filter phase-in and more annual miles for several truck types. It is unknown at this writing how CARB could “unring the bell” for past flexibilities that g o t CARB questions? have been used. WSTA will post the pending CARB com- • Exemptions? • Reporting? munication on this subject promptly after it is issued and • Grants? CleanFleets will be available to discuss how it impacts the members. WSTA’s Endorsed Compliance Consulting and Training Affiliate Smoke Testing Hearing Set for May: With the industry comments deadline come and gone, Sean R. Edgar, Director by early April CARB will release its staff report for the May 916-520-6040 x102 24 hearing on this matter. As discussed in detail at the WSTA [email protected] Winter Board Meeting, it is likely that CARB will propose

16 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org What is a crucial problem is limiting the trucking operation to 4 to 6 hours a day when an 8 hour day is normally [email protected] available. Limiting hours you can work only stretches the project completion time further out from either completing Cell: (909) 996-2188 it on schedule or earlier than the scheduled date. Office: (760) 249-4376 Communications with local residents keep them aware of your trucking plans for small or large jobs. That is your An Uphill Battle opportunity to suggest alternate routes for their use during It continues to be an uphill battle when import / export these times. Resident awareness might resolve a lot of fu- of materials are involved on a project. It all comes down ture problems on other projects too. Being made aware of to public safety and the quality of life for local residents. what the trucking plans are and then a step further, if there Some local officials take it to the is a problem, a contact name and extreme, so you have to be sensi- number to be able to talk to some- tive to their needs when you’re one responsible and aware of the explaining your needs. Their im- project. mediately going to want to know I receive a lot of calls asking how many trucks you’re going to me if a city can do this or do that. utilizing per day and for how long. Well they can hold up the grading So, be prepared with a good short permit of the project if they want. truck route you feel you can uti- We really need to be proactive and lize. Make sure your using trucks start having meeting with these lo- that are well maintained with safe calities after the project is over and and courteous drivers, express that see what went right and how we all to the city representative. The last can do better the next time. things you need are erratic drivers that cause residents to start complaining. Make the drivers aware that their driv- If you’re not able to work things out in advance and ing could affect how the job goes, so you want good driv- you’re wondering how we can assist you to with the City ers for a good outcome on the job. Engineering Department, give me a call 909-996-2188. These projects are only temporary and once their done with the trucking portion, things go back to normal. These LAW OFFICES OF ANTHONY G. PATCHETT, SBN# 090985 same residential areas were inconvenienced while their P.O. Box 5232, Glendale, CA 91221-1099 houses were being built. Being inconvenienced sometimes [email protected] is the price paid when it comes to growth. These routes are Phone: 818-243-8863 only utilized by you during the duration of the job, not like Fax: 818-243-9157 some local businesses that require restocking daily such as Lowes or a local grocery store. Cities don’t charge any “…and justice for all.” others for truck deliveries in the city or additional fees, so why do they think they can directly target the construction ATTENTION TRUCKERS!!!! – GUARANTEED industry? We want to work with them and them with us. STATE EXCISE TAX REFUNDS UP TO 32 CENTS

PER GALLON TO QUALIFIED USERS OF DIESEL NEWS SUBDIVISION This is seen by cities as an opportunity to generate ad- FUEL. NO CONTINGENCY OR UP-FRONT ditional revenue by requiring you to have a haul permit that FEES. FEE IS 40% OF AMOUNT OF REFUND may cost you per day, week or for the entire job and they FOR APPLYING FOR PERSONALIZED ACCOUNT, could require it per truck. There is no provision that allows PREPARING/SUBMITTING ALL REQUIRED a locality to charge you for using public roads. This would FORMS/DOCUMENTS, AND FILING CLAIMS be known as a toll and they have no authority. What they can FOR REFUND. CALL TO FIND OUT IF YOU do is require you to obtain a bond for any potential damage QUALIFY AND OR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. done during the course of the job. If that’s the case and it’s your only alternative then make sure you cover yourself and Anthony G. Patchett, Attorney at Law -Retired Assistant Head Deputy, video tape the entire route and then when the jobs over, vid- Environmental Crimes Division/OSHA Division eo tape it again in case there are back charges for any road- Steve Cooley, Attorney at Law Retired- District Attorney, Los Angeles way damage that may have already existed. Sometimes you County have to remind them that your loads are legal axle weight, Jaime A. Barragan, former State of California Auditor/Criminal Investigator no different than any other truck traveling these same roads. 661-900-0461 SE HABLA ESPANOL We all know the sooner the project gets off the ground, Jesse Marquez, Executive Director, Coalition for a Safe Environment 310-590-0177 SE HABLA ESPANOL the sooner the grading is completed, and things start getting back to normal before you know it. (attorney advertisement)

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FMC Issues Information Demands in Detention & Demurrage Investigation WASHINGTON D.C. – April 2, 2018: Commissioner Rebecca Dye has launched the first phase of her investigation into port demurrage, detention, and free time practices by or- dering ocean common carriers to provide information and documents explaining those practices. A similar effort with respect to container terminals at major U.S. ports is also underway.

SUBDIVISION NEWS The Federal Maritime Commission initiated the investigation, Fact Finding 28, under a Commission Order dated March 5, 2018. The first phase of Commissioner Dye’s investigation involves gathering information from ocean common carriers and marine terminal operators serving a broad section of container ports located throughout the United States. Carriers have been directed to provide detailed information about their detention and demurrage practices, especially regarding circumstances where shippers are not able to re- Just one of the many programs trieve cargo. WSTA offers its members. “The ultimate resolution of this investigation will have the potential to affect every ocean common carrier calling Join and instantly receive the savings. the United States. It is vital that the information we gather is representative of business and operational practices, as well as market conditions, nationally,” said Commissioner Dye. Commissioner Dye emphasized that it is critical that shippers, dray truck companies, and other affected parties who can document specific allegations and provide supporting materials of unreasonable port detention and demurrage practices and fees step forward and cooperate with the investigation. “We expect concerned parties to participate robustly in this investigation. Their cooperation is essential,” said Commissioner Dye. Correspondence, allegations, and supporting documents can be sent to the Commission via: [email protected] For those preferring to send supporting documents by mail, the address to use is: Commissioner Rebecca Dye Federal Maritime Commission 800 North Capitol Street, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia 20573 An interim report of findings and recommendations is due no later than September 2, 2018. A final report will be issued to the Commission for consideration, discussion, and vote no later than December 2, 2018.

18 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org Since 2017, a number of U.S. ports have followed Port of Oakland Doing More Oakland’s lead by introducing night hours. Ports in Los Work at Night Than Ever Before Angeles and Long Beach said they’re studying Oakland as Oakland, Calif. – April 4, 2018: More truckers now visit they consider revamping night operations. the Port of Oakland at night than at any time in its 91-year Oakland International Container Terminal assesses a history. Oakland’s largest marine terminal said today that it’s $30 fee on all container loads to finance night operations. conducting between 1,500 and 2,000 daily truck transactions The fee is used primarily to cover labor costs. Said Kevin after sundown. That’s up from 800 a year ago. Bulger, Chief Operating Officer at Apex Maritime, one of Port officials said that the difference is night and day, the largest cargo shippers in Oakland: “It’s the best $30 I pointing out that night gates have: ever spent.” • Curbed daytime congestion even though Oakland’s Please Patronize the Following Businesses that containerized cargo volume broke records in 2017; Support the West State Alliance at the Port of Oakland • Reduced truck traffic on city streets and freeways; • Accelerated shipment deliveries to cargo owners; and • Enabled truck drivers, mostly independent operators, to transport more containers daily, thereby boosting their income. Edgar’s Mobile Lube “Night operations have transformed the Port,” said Executive Director Chris Lytle. “No more 8-to-5 work days…we’re too busy for that.” Oakland International Container Terminal (OICT) introduced night gates two years ago to take pressure off overbur- dened daytime operations. It was the first terminal to open for a second shift in Oakland history. Nearby TraPac marine terminal has been testing night gates, as well. Freight haulers use the gates for everything from picking up loaded import containers to dropping off refrigerated exports. According to OICT, truck transaction times have aver- aged 60-to-90 minutes since night gates began. In the past, a driver could wait 2-to-3 hours to conduct business. The terminal said night gates account for about 30 percent of its daily transaction volume. “We’ve spread out the truck traffic and improved the drivers’ turn times,” said Jim Rice, General Manager at Oakland International Container Terminal. “Night gates have allowed us to operate nine shifts a week with a domino effect: there’s less traffic and congestion and it’s easier for cargo owners to pick up their shipments.” NEWS SUBDIVISION Rapid cargo movement is essential at marine terminals. That’s the critical supply chain intersection where ships, trucks and trains hand-off containerized shipments. Oakland International Container Terminal is the second- busiest marine terminal in the U.S. It handles 60-to-70 percent of all containerized cargo in Oakland. By stretching its workday, the terminal has helped Oakland improve overall operating performance, the Port said. “Oakland International Container Terminal has really led the charge with all of its investments and most impor- tantly adding the night gates,” said Peter Schneider, Vice President with T.G.S. Transportation Inc., one of the major motor carriers serving the Port. “It has helped transform not only Oakland, but many other ports.”

Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 19 3. Employee was not prescribed medication(s). The physician would than sign, print name, provide contact info and date the Form and return it to the employer Expanded Opioid Testing and the employer should forward to the MRO. Causes Safety Concerns & We are recommending that the employer should also at- Additional Medical tach a job description of what the employee does with the Form (such as commercial vehicle driver) in case the pre- Clearance Reporting scribing physician is not aware of what the employee does WSTA has seen many reported negative results but with for a living. This is not mandatory but best practices. “safety concerns” to our C/TPA clients since January 1, 2018 A2. Schedule a Fitness for Duty Evaluation with an HEALTH &COMPLIANCE when the expanded opioid testing was mandated as part of Occupational Medicine Physician – The second option is the DOT-5 panel urine test. The majority of concerns have to send the employee for a “Fitness for Duty Evaluation” come from mostly prescriptions of Hydrocodone, a common- with an Occupational Medicine Physician to determine if the ly prescribed painkiller however; there have also been a few employee is fit for duty when taking the expanded opioid. negatives with “safety concern” results for Oxycodone and Hydromorphone. In Conclusion: These new regulations now require the MRO to wait Doing nothing may create liability for the employer, 5 days for a response to the “Medical both from a corporate risk and/or Clearance to Preform Safety Sensitive a possible workers’ compensation Job Function” Form and if the donor standpoint. Check with your insur- does not have their physician either ance carrier to determine any pos- contact our MROs and/or send back sible liability. the medical clearance form signed by It should also be their physician; then the MRO has to noted that according re-send the result with the MROs’ to the CDC, millions concern form a second time. If of Americans are ad- there is no response, the informa- dicted to powerful tion history is stored in the clients prescription painkill- file…and no other action is taken. ers, mostly Opioids. See form example on opposite These types of prescriptions peaked page. in 2012 at more than 255 million na- Q. So what does an employ- tionwide with a prescribing rate of er do when they get an MRO 81.3 prescriptions per 100 persons. The Medical Clearance Request form from an MRO? overall national Opioid prescribing rate declined from 2012 to 2016, and in 2016, the prescribing rate had fallen to the There are normally two ways to deal with safety concerns lowest it had been in more than 10 years at 66.5 prescrip- relating to employees who test positive or even negative but tions per 100 persons (over 214 million total Opioid pre- have enough opiates show-up in tests that there may be legiti- scriptions)….and still remains a serious problem! mate “safety concerns”. If you have any questions, please contact Sandra Medina A1. Medical Clearance to Preform Safety Sensitive at 909-982-8409. Job Function Form – The preferred method that we use…our MRO provides our C/TPA clients with a “Medical Clearance to Preform Safety Sensitive Job Function” Form that the employee signs and the employer contacts the employee’s physician and has him/her complete the Physician’s Section of the TRANSPORTATIONTRANSPORTATION Form. The physician would also mark one of the following boxes on the Form: WSTA ADVISOR HOTLINE 1. Employee may perform safety-sensitive duties while IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS RELATING TO: taking his/her prescribed recommended medications Prevailing Wage/Covered Work, Broker/Sub-Hauler issues, Insurance or any as directed. issue relating to operations of the dump truck business, give me a call, let’s talk. 2. Employee may NOT perform safety-sensitive duties while taking his/her prescribed/recommended Fred ReCupido – (760) 535-0810 medication(s).

20 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org Medical Clearance to Perform Safety Sensitive Job Functions

Date: ______

The donor listed below takes medication that may impact his/her ability to perform safety- sensitive functions. Because of this, we are recommending that you provide your emplyee with this medical release form for his/her treating pysicial to complete. This release must be returned to Central Drug System via the fax number listed below. A new release should be completed whenever the employee’s medication is changed.

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[email protected] [email protected] ¡Una gran idea! La prueba expandida de opioides causa Estaba leyendo un artículo de un periódico local sobre problemas de seguridad y Informes Patterson High School, que está justo al oeste de donde vivo. adicionales de aprobación médica Resulta que Patterson High School es la primera de su tipo WSTA ha visto muchos resultados negativos, pero con en la nación, una clase de instrucción de manejo de camión “preocupaciones de seguridad” para nuestros clientes de C / Clase A como parte de su plan de estudios. TPA desde el 1 de enero de 2018 cuando la prueba expandida de opiáceos fue obligatoria como parte de la prueba de orina Pensé que era una idea fantástica para los estudiantes de del panel DOT-5. La mayoría de las preocupaciones provi- secundaria tomar una clase y aprender a conducir un camión enen principalmente de las prescripciones de Hidrocodona, y aprender sobre la industria más a fondo. Siempre me he un analgésico comúnmente recetado; también ha habido al- preguntado si existía ese tipo de clase, pero nunca en mis gunos aspectos negativos con resultados de “preocupación de LA COALICIÓN sueños más locos pensé que sería en mi patio aquí en el Valle seguridad” por Oxicodona e Hidromorfona. Central. Me gustaría contactar al instructor para poder sen- Estas nuevas regulaciones ahora exigen que el MRO tarme en la clase y observe. espere 5 días para obtener una respuesta al formulario Este tipo de currículum me intriga porque me recuerda “Autorización médica para realizar la función de trabajo sen- el momento en que estaba en la universidad sin saber qué sible a la seguridad” y si el donante no tiene su médico con- iba a hacer durante el verano. Un día, en la escuela, había un tacte a nuestras MRO y / o envíe el formulario de autorización pequeño anuncio en una valla publicitaria de Morning Star, médica firmado por su médico; entonces el MRO tiene que volver a enviar el resultado con el formulario de preocupación y estaban buscando conductores de camioneros que ganaran de los MRO por segunda vez. Si no hay respuesta, el historial de 3 a $ 4,000 por mes durante el verano. En ese momento de información se almacena en el archivo de clientes... y no ya tenía mi CDL y tenía cierta experiencia, pero sé que me se realiza ninguna otra acción. Vea el ejemplo de formulario habría beneficiado mucho si hubiera podido tomar una clase en la página opuesta. como esta. Manejé para Morning Star por una temporada y P. Entonces, ¿qué hace un empleador cuando ob- fue una gran experiencia. Hice un buen dinero para comple- tiene un formulario de Solicitud de Autorización mentar mis gastos de matrícula universitaria. Médica MRO de un MRO? Se habla constantemente de una “escasez de conducto- Normalmente hay dos maneras de tratar las preocupaciones res” y, independientemente de la opinión que tenga sobre el de seguridad relacionadas con los empleados que dan positivo tema, el hecho es que muchos jóvenes no quieren conducir o incluso negativo, pero tienen suficientes opiáceos en las prue- un camión a ningún precio o están efectivamente bloqueados bas que puede haber "preocupaciones de seguridad" legítimas. para poder ingresar a la industria. Debido a múltiples fac- A1. Formulario de Función de Trabajo Sensible a la tores La falta de entrenamiento no debería ser uno de esos Seguridad – El método preferido que utilizamos... nuestro factores. MRO proporciona a nuestros clientes C / TPA un formular- Me gustaría agradecer al David Dein y personal de io de “Autorización Médica para Preformar la Función de Trabajo Sensible a la Seguridad” que el empleado firma y el Patterson High School por llenar un gran vacío en la in- empleador contacta al médico del empleado y hace que com- dustria del transporte por carretera. En la página 22 de la plete la sección de médicos del formulario. El médico tam- revista, tenemos un buen artículo de Dave que describe su bién marcaría una de las siguientes casillas en el Formulario: programa. 1. El empleado puede realizar tareas sensibles a la En una nota adicional, el miércoles 21 de marzo el seguridad mientras toma los medicamentos reco- congresista de California Duncan Hunter presentó una leg- mendados recetados según las indicaciones. islación en la Cámara de Representantes titulada “DRIVE- 2. El empleado NO puede realizar tareas sensibles a Safe Act” que reformaría una prohibición federal de décadas la seguridad mientras toma su (s) medicamento (s) contra los jóvenes de 18 a 21 años de cruzar las fronteras recetado / recomendado (s). estatales con un CDL. El proyecto de ley contiene algunos 3. El empleado no recibió medicamento (s). controles y saldos, y no es un cheque en blanco para permitir El médico debe firmar, imprimir el nombre, proporcio- simplemente que los estudiantes de entre 18 y 21 años cru- nar información de contacto y fechar el formulario y devolv- cen las fronteras estatales, pero abriría un camino para que erlo al empleador y el empleador debe enviarlo al MRO. los mismos estudiantes de Patterson High School ingresen Recomendamos que el empleador también adjunte una en una carrera que han sido efectivamente bloqueados de descripción del trabajo de lo que hace el empleado con el perseguir. Formulario (como el conductor de un vehículo comercial) continúa en la pagina 23

22 Marzo/Abril 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org que los hace diferentes. Pensar en el ser humano que es la parte más importante de la empresa, empoderar a ese ser humano en cualquier puesto que desempeñe para que ellos a su vez den lo mejor a sus compañeros y a sus clientes. No he visto mejor fórmula de éxito que la influencia positiva en otros. BC LOGISTICS, S. DE R.L. Podemos ver a sus fla- DE C.V. y TRANSPORTES mantes operadores que traba- jan con gusto y dedicación, NORTE DE B.C., Ejemplo sintiendo ese orgullo de de Profesionalización de el pertenecer a una empresa donde se preocupan por ellos, Transporte Transfronterizo por entrenarlos y conseguirles En reciente asamblea en la Ciudad mejores condiciones de trabajo, el interés de la empresa por de México, Enrique González, presi- tener tractores y remolques de primera y en óptimas condicio- dente electo de CANACAR, comen- nes para cumplir con sus clientes, pero sobre todo para cuidar taba sobre la gran importancia de pro- a sus operadores y cumplir a la vez con el compromiso moral y fesionalizar la Industria del transporte social de proteger a el resto de los conductores que comparten de carga y pasajeros. Nos llamó la at- la carretera con los nuestros, previniendo accidentes y muertes. ención porque también en las confer- Vemos, entonces, que el exito, la responsabilidad, transparen- encias de CVSA en Estados Unidos y cia, integridad y el profesionalismo de este gran equipo no ha sido Canadá Meraz Consultores, representante de nuestros trans- algo que se obtuvo de la noche a la mañana, han sido años de tra- portistas mexicanos que mueven sus mercancías a través de la bajo serio y riguroso en los compromisos y obligaciones tanto en frontera entre México y Estados Unidos, desde la primera con- el trabajo diario como en la relación con clientes, proveedores y ferencia hicimos un serio compromiso: CREAR COMPAÑIAS DE TRANSPORTE SEGURAS, COMPETITIVAS Y DE agencias regulatorias en México como en EEUU. Esto es ejemplo PRIMER NIVEL, que es de alguna manera, el mismo objetivo de PROFESIONALIZACION, especialmente en transporte que que el de nuestro líder en CANACAR. había sido denigrado a través de los años. En BC LOGISTICS, S. DE R.L. DE CV y TRANSPORTES NORTE DE B.C. esta ha sido Pero resulta que alguien ya se nos había adelantado, al- la misión desde sus inicios, por esa y muchas razones se les con- guien que soñaba en grande y empezaba en pequeño. Nunca sideran como el gran EJEMPLO DE PROFESIONALIZACION me hubiera imaginado al recibir aquella llamada en 2007 que DE EL TRANSPORTE DE CARGA TRANSFRONTERIZO. Alejandro Eguía de Comandos del Norte, nos habia recomendado con Marco Antonio Bustos y a Alejandro Cano para ase- ¡Enhorabuena y felicidades a MARCO ANTONIO sorarlos en abrir una empresa de transportes. Todo fue normal, BUSTOS E., ALEJANDRO CANO y a su gran equipo de como cualquier otro proceso, pero había algo en Marco y trabajo por tan impresionante logro! Alejandro que los hacia diferentes. Querían entender cada paso, cada obligación que iban a adquirir, saber cómo prote- Opioides – continuación de la página 22 gerse, como implementar mejores prácticas, como prevenir situaciones de riesgo, como relacionarse con los represent- en caso de que el médico que prescribe no esté al tanto de antes de las agencias que nos regulan en EEUU. Hicieron de lo que el empleado hace para ganarse la vida. Esto no es su pequeña empresa una gran empresa, formaron con cuidado obligatorio, sino las mejores prácticas. y dedicación los cimientos que serían la base para esa y otras A2. Programe una Evaluación de Aptitud para el Trabajo empresas de éxito en Mexicali, Calexico y Nogales, Son. con un Médico de Medicina Ocupacional: la segunda opción es COALICIÓN LA La grandeza de un empre- enviar al empleado a una "Evaluación de Aptitud para el Trabajo" sa no se mide por la cantidad con un Médico de Medicina del Trabajo para determinar si el em- de equipo que posee, ni por pleado está capacitado para tomar el opiáceo expandido. sus impresionantes instalacio- En conclusión: nes. Se mide por la calidad y No hacer nada puede crear responsabilidad para el em- los valores de sus directivos, pleador, tanto de un riesgo corporativo como de un posible pun- por la calidad humana, por saber compartir conocimientos y to de vista de compensación laboral. Consulte con su compañía empoderar a sus empleados. Por ser líderes y crear más líderes. de seguros para determinar cualquier posible responsabilidad. La grandeza está presente en la armonía y la gran energía que También se debe tener en cuenta que, según el CDC, sientes al entrar en sus instalaciones o al compartir un evento o millones de estadounidenses son adictos a los potentes anal- una junta de trabajo con todos los miembros de su gran equipo. gésicos recetados en su mayoría opioides. Este tipo de pre- MERAZ CONSULTORES, WESTERN STATES scripciones alcanzó su punto máximo en 2012 en más de TRUCKING ASSOCIATION y CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY 255 millones en todo el país con una tasa de prescripción de PATROL organizan juntas, entrenamientos y conferencias en 81,3 recetas por cada 100 personas. La tasa general nacional diferentes épocas del año sobre diferentes temas y las dos em- de prescripción de opiáceos disminuyó de 2012 a 2016, y en presas que siempre están presentes con el mayor número de 2016, la tasa de prescripción había caído al nivel más bajo participantes son BC LOGISTICS, S. DE R.L. DE C.V y en más de 10 años a 66.5 recetas por 100 personas (más TRANSPORTES NORTE DE B.C. Marco y Alejandro in- de 214 millones de prescripciones opioides totales)....y aún vierten una increíble cantidad de tiempo y dinero en entre- sigue siendo un problema serio! namientos sobre diferentes temas como la seguridad, super- Si tiene alguna pregunta, comuníquese con Sandra ación, excelencia, solidaridad, integridad y liderazgo, eso es lo Medina al 909-982-8409.

Volumen - 77 Número - 3/4 “La Fuerza en Números” 23 Cover Story Refrigerated, have played a critical and vital role into the High School Takes on Commercial success of the program. It was decided to have the Truck Driver Shortage program based on the highest With commercial truck driver shortage looming, a high industry level standards as set school in Patterson, California decided to take a proactive by the Professional Truck Driver approach by creating a truck driving school program dedi- Institute (PTDI) as well as the cated to bring new drivers into the industry. FMCSA Entry Level Driver Training Standards that go into The area surrounding Patterson High School has be- effect in 2020. Students receive 180 hours of instruction come a mecca for distribution centers the last several year time with 80 hours devoted to classroom instruction and bringing in companies such as: Amazon, Grainger, Kohls, 100 hours for lab activities. Here the students obtain hands CVS, and Restoration Hardware. Superintendent Dr. Philip on experience on a truck and two trailers donated by Faith Alfano saw an opportunity and created a Supply Chain and Logistics to practice pre-trip inspections, air brake tests, and Logistics Management Program at the high school that coupling/uncoupling. Students also use this time for practic- trains students for entry level positions at these facilities. ing hours of service (log books) and trip planning. Two years ago he was approached by Dave Dein, a fourth In addition, students also receive 20 hours of behind- grade teacher in the district, with the idea of starting a truck the-wheel training on two Advanced Training Systems driving school and the process began in creating one of the (http://www.atstrainingsystems.com/) truck simulators first high school truck driving programs in the Nation. where they learn how to shift a 10-speed transmission that Although Mr. Dein includes fuel management shifting techniques, maneuvering has been an elementary the truck through varied simulations and backing. Mr. Dein school teacher for 17 loves how the ATS lessons are self paced and how the simu- years, he is definitely not lator provides immediate feedback and remediation. This new to trucking. He began allows Mr. Dein to work with more than one student at a his career in the truck- time. The mini-lessons are goal driven and focus on a spe- ing industry in 1988 as cific learning objective allowing students to practice and re- a way to financially sup- tain information much more effectively. port himself through col- The truck driving program has also partnered with lege. After earning a degree in business administration from Worklete (http://worklete.com/), a training program de- C.S.U. Stanislaus, he was hired by large manufacturing signed to reduce workplace injuries. Currently implemented company as a driver/manager. After having a successful ca- with companies such as Nestle, Penske Logistics and DBI reer as a driver and logging over 700,000 accident and ticket Beverage, Worklete teaches the proper way to perform in- free miles, he felt himself called into the area of education. dustry specific job functions, such as opening and closing After eight years as an elementary school teacher, Mr. Dein the hood, entering and exiting the cab, pulling the fifth wheel was compelled to do more for individuals marginalized by release handle and many more job functions. Worklete has society and founded a tuition-free, non-profit truck driving created a custom program for Patterson High School that school ministry called Faith Logistics. During his summers has students learn a new lesson each week and then allows off from teaching, Mr. Dein would train individuals recently students to practice that movement throughout the week to released from prison and teach them how to drive a truck create muscle memory. At and provide job placement assistance. For ten years this was the end of the program, Mr. Dein’s passion until regulatory changes affecting diesel Worklete trainers will visit engines forced the dissolution of this organization. Patterson High School to After receiving certify that students are the green light from qualified in all industry Dr. Alfano the first specific movements. step was to enlist the Upon the completion expertise of district of the Patterson High Career Technical School truck driving pro- Education director, gram, students will be Jeff Rowe, who was given an option as to how able to use his vast ex- they want to proceed in perience to leverage funding for the program. The next step obtaining their behind- in creating the high school program was to bring in industry the-wheel training. partners and create an advisory board to assist in the plan- Students can choose to obtain free behind-the-wheel training ning and guidance of the newly formed entity. Since early with one of their industry partners, Morning Star Trucking conception, the advisory board members including Morning or enroll in the Patterson Joint Unified School District Adult Star Trucking, Penske Logistics, Foster Farms, and Northern Education Program where the district has contracted the be-

24 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org hind-the wheel training with a local truck driving school. As How Real Are Electric Trucks? Morning Star Trucking trains with automatic transmission By Robert W. Poole, Jr. trucks students will have a restricted license, but they will be Reason Foundation Director of Transportation Policy, and a Searle Freedom guaranteed seasonal employment transporting tomatoes dur- Trust Transportation Fellow ing the summer earning up to $12,000 in three months. This There is modest but ongoing growth in the use of electric is great opportunity for students who may want to continue trucks for relatively light-duty purposes – local deliveries of their education and earn money to help pay for college. mail, packages, groceries, etc. Range anxiety is not a problem for those kinds of fleets, since their typical daily mileage Although many trucking companies have minimum age can work on a single charge, and recharging takes place at a requirements due to insurance mandates, Patterson High fleet’s central hub. School has been able to secure not only local companies that will employee drivers at the age of 18, but they have also The great question mark is how feasible electric pro- have the support of their industry partners that have pledged pulsion is for heavy-duty trucks that operate on highways, to create opportunities to mentor and provide valuable on particularly the large Class 8 tractors. That is the market tar- the job experience. This will allow graduates of the program geted by Nikola and Tesla, both new entrants into the truck to obtain experience in such areas as warehousing and yard production business. shuttling, so when they do reach the minimum company age Both have unveiled requirement to drive they have gained a wealth of skills sexy-looking proto- which will undoubtedly assist them in their career. types (or mock-ups). Mr. Dein feels the The Nikola tractor greatest accomplish- will power its elec- ment so far is that tric motors using Patterson High School electricity from on- has proven that a vi- board hydrogen fuel cells, while the Tesla tractors will be able, cost effective battery-electric. training program is Virtue Signaling Orders possible and can eas- Both companies have generated large numbers of pre-orders ily be replicated in – basically, trucking companies putting down modest deposits other communities. The American Trucking Association’s to hold a place for X number of vehicles once production be- study in 2015 highlighted the driver shortage, now estimated gins. Nikola claims more than 8,000 such commitments, while to be 50,000 and possibly ballooning to 174,000 by the year 2026. Mr. Dein points out that there are over 26,000 public Tesla (which only unveiled its contenders in November 2017) high schools across the United States and if programs like has many hundreds, from such big names as UPS, J.B. Hunt, the one at Patterson High School were created at a county Schneider National, Anheuser-Busch, Pepsico and Wal-Mart. wide level, then students from schools within that district Continued on page 27 could partake in the training. It would only take 10 students from each high school to have a significant and dramatic im- mous trucks designed to pact on the driver shortage. Mr. Dein recognizes the impor- make trucking safer and tance of not waiting until someone is already in high school more efficient. Mr. Dein to start promoting truck driving as a career choice and sees feels the legacy of the the need for outreach at the middle and elementary school Patterson High School levels. He applauds the work being done by the organization truck driving program Trucking Moves America Forward, (http://truckingmovesa- is directly related to the merica.com/) ad- success and accomplish- dressing the need ments of those who con- to promote a posi- tinue to be an integral tive image of the and active participant in the future of the transportation industry. trucking industry Supporting this mission, Mr. Dein has set up the Faith Logistics and thus hopefully College Scholarship Fund through the Patterson Recognizing attracting more in- Individuals Determined to Excel (P.R.I.D.E) organization. This dividuals to pursue scholarship is available to Patterson High School students who trucking as a career graduate from the truck driving program and want to continue choice. their education in a transportation related field of study. For more information on the Patterson High School Lastly, Mr. Dein’s vision of this program is more than just Truck Driving Program please contact: providing skills and knowledge for students to earn their CDL. Dave Dein To him it is about providing students with a comprehensive look [email protected] into an industry that is currently exploring new future technolo- 209-648-3003 gies, such as hydrogen and electric powertrains and autono- https://sites.google.com/patterson.k12.ca.us/truckdrivingschool/home

Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 25 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS CARB Truck Rule Compliance Required for DMV Registration Are you ready for 2020?

Starting in 2020, new enforcement tools ensure that vehicles subject to the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Truck and Bus Regulation must meet the health-based requirements of that rule prior to obtaining registration through the DMV.

What are the CARB requirements I must meet in What if I am currently out of compliance with 2020 to ensure that DMV can register my vehicle? the Truck and Bus Regulation? The Truck and Bus Regulation is currently in CARB can place a DMV registration block on your effect, and your vehicle may already be subject vehicle now if it does not meet current air quality to compliance deadlines. In 2020, the specific regulations. The State of California is enforcing all requirement is either: diesel regulations in preparation for 2020.

• Using a 2011 or newer vehicle, or repowering Which vehicles are subject to the Truck and with a 2010 or newer engine based on the Bus Regulation? vehicle model year (MY) schedule, below: The Regulation applies to nearly all privately- or Schedule for Lighter Vehicles (14,001 - 26,000 lbs GVWR) federally- owned diesel-fueled trucks and buses, Year of Current Replace/Repower with 2010+ and privately- and publicly-owned school buses with Vehicle MY Engine By: a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 2004 and older January 1, 2020 14,000 pounds. 2005 - 2007 January 1, 2021 If your vehicle is exempt from another heavy-duty 2008 - 2010 January 1, 2023 diesel regulation (see below for examples), it is likely subject to the Truck and Bus regulation. Schedule for Heavier Vehicles (>26,000 lbs GVWR) • Solid waste collection vehicles* Year of Current Replace/Repower with 2010+ • Drayage trucks* Vehicle MY Engine By: • Cargo-handling equipment 2000 and older January 1, 2020 2001 - 2005 January 1, 2021 *Note: Vehicles with 2007 – 2009 model year engines become subject to the Truck and Bus regulation upgrade requirements on January 1, 2023. 2006 - 2007 January 1, 2022 2008 - 2010 January 1, 2023 If your vehicle is exempt from all heavy-duty diesel regulations or has met the final upgrade -OR- requirements, you will be able to register with • Using an allowable compliance option the DMV. Reporting fleet and vehicle information which must be reported in the Truck to CARB, such as VIN numbers, may be needed Regulation Upload, Compliance and to ensure that you are not mistakenly denied Reporting System (TRUCRS). registration.

For more information on the Truck and Bus Regulation, compliance options, and funding opportunities, please visit: www.arb.ca.gov/truckstop Electric Trucks – continued from page 25 California Changing the Back in 2016, Nikola announced that the price of its Way It Counts Traffic Class 8 tractor would be $375,000, about double that of a At a California transportation conference last month, typical diesel Class 8. The 300-mile Tesla Semi previewed Chris Ganson, of the Governor’s Office of Planning and costing $150,000, while the 500-mile version would go for Research, announced the state is switching from the “level $180,000. At those prices, Tesla claims a payback period of of service” (LOS) concept of transportation planning to a two years. Both Nikola and Tesla tout superior performance “vehicle-miles traveled” (VMT) scheme when evaluating due to the superb traction offered by electric motors (e.g., roadway congestion. being able to climb grades at 65 mph compared with 45 mph This change is important because in the world of road for diesel trucks), as well as energy-efficient regenerative construction, how you measure traffic flow determines braking. whether you build additional capacity or renovate an exist- None of the performance claims have been demon- ing stretch of highway. In the case of LOS, the measure- strated thus far, and the actual prices of the vehicles may ments are qualitative – how good are the various compo- be more than the initial estimates, depending on develop- nents of the highway or street performing – expressed as a ment costs that can only be estimated. But one key fac- measure of effectiveness that is the quotient of the volume tor has not yet been announced by Tesla: the total weight to the capacity on a series of different areas involved in the of a Tesla Semi. Huge battery packs are very heavy (and project. VMT metrics measure the number of miles traveled Tesla rightly touts this as contributing to the tractor’s low that each new trip adds to the roadway network – and make center of mass). Even without the mass of a diesel engine reducing the number of cars on the road is the key to reduc- and transmission, the total weight of the rig is likely to be ing congestion. higher than that of a diesel. As transportation consultant, Residents of major metro areas don’t need advanced Lawrence J. Gross pointed out in The Journal of Commerce mathematics to tell them the roadway system does not work. (Jan. 8, 2018), “every extra pound represents an equivalent However, under federal law metropolitan regions with more loss of payload.” than 200,000 residents are required to have a congestion Nikola will not likely incur as large a weight penalty, as- mitigation plan. Those regions are required to show that they suming that its hydrogen tank and fuel cells weigh less than are actively working to reduce congestion to receive certain types of federal funding such as the National Highway the Tesla’s battery pack. But as indicated by the Nikola’s Performance Program, under the FAST Act. much higher announced price, the hydrogen fuel cell is no free lunch. In California, there are at least 66 communities with populations >200,000, based on 2010 Census Bureau data, As Michael Sena points out in the December 2017 issue but with a new census due to take place in two years that of The Dispatcher, the only hydrogen fuel-cell car available number will likely increase. The combination of federal in America – the Toyota Mirai – costs over twice the price funding rules and rising population (of people and cars) is of the comparably sized Toyota Prius. It will also cost more putting heat on the state to deal with this planning in terms to operate, due to the high cost of producing hydrogen and other than political posturing. the very limited distribution of hydrogen (it’s produced in quantity in only three states). Since the advent of federal transportation funding, the preferred method to assess congestion has been the level Both Nikola and Tesla still face the problem of range of congestion on the roadway. Transportation Departments anxiety for long-haul Class 8 trucking. As of today, there are grade their highways from A to F, with Level of Service only 39 hydrogen fueling stations in the United States, all (LOS) “A” being completely free-flowing traffic and LOS but four of which are in California. “F” being stop-and-go traffic or worse. Hydrogen refueling is supposedly as quick as diesel re- According to Ganson, California adopted a VMT mea- fueling, compared with 30-45 minutes for recharging at one surement tool because traditional LOS metrics have numer- of Tesla’s still quite limited number of Supercharger stations. ous problems. Among them, he says LOS measurement This suggests that early markets for both Nikola and Tesla “does not create communities that people want to live in” Class 8s will more likely be in heavy-duty urban-area truck- because of the following rationales: ing, such as drayage of containers from ports to distribution • Inhibits transit and “active” transportation; and, centers, rather than long-haul over-the-road operations. • Causes municipalities to overbuild road Overall, there’s a lot of potential for electric trucks, but infrastructure. the long-haul market remains a question mark. And the com- Further, he says switching focus to a VMT-measurement petition between battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric heavy tool would: trucks will be interesting to watch as it evolves. • Increase transit-oriented development; Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a recent Surface • Simplify modeling; Transportation Innovations meeting. Bob Poole explored • Increase locally serving retail; and the reality of electric trucks, who the players are and how • Reduce pavement maintenance costs. likely they are to show up on our highways. Continued on page 29

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California – continued from page 27 Ganson made several other statements to justify the change in planning methodology. For example, he said LOS overestimates the amount of traffic that infill development adds to congestion and underestimates the amount of traffic that greenfield development adds to congestion. Traffic managers say in reality the reverse is true. Infill development tends to add vehicles to already busy roads while greenfield development tends to add vehicles to less traveled roads. There are many different reasons for the recent surge in freight rates in recent quarters. On the demand side, the Ganson argued that fixing congestion moves the steady growth in consumer spending and renewed appetite problem elsewhere. This case might be true in rapidly for business investment has helped revive domestic manu- growing regions that don’t use pricing as a tool, but it’s facturing activity. On the supply side, trucking companies not true in California which is growing at a glacial pace. continue to struggle with driver shortages, deteriorating in- He has a slide suggesting that using LOS leads to infrastructure, and the implementation of the ELD mandate. duced demand, an old canard of the environmental ex- tremists who claim that adding capacity somehow gives “Drilling down even further into the details provides ad- birth to more cars on the roads. But using road pricing, ditional insight into trucking freights. Most of the accelera- not changing metrics, has been proven effective in limit- tion in freight rates has been driven by long-distance truck ing induced demand. Many states are using some form transportation, while local trucking rate growth has been of congestion pricing or variable tolling to address these more muted,” Bayaan said, adding, “The effects have been externalities, but none other than California has seen the even more pronounced with less-than-truckload shipments, need to switch to using VMT to address congestion. with inflation nearing 8 percent in January.” If California’s true aim is to fix the way congestion Behind the Numbers is assessed, the state would continue to use LOS but sup- The BLS data highlights some of the implications of re- plement it with VMT where LOS is problematic, such cent trends within freight, as the combination of a tight labor as in downtown streets and for greenfield developments. market and higher regulatory costs are having a noticeable In reality, California is throwing out a good if slightly effect on rates within the industry. Demands on the trucking flawed methodology for a methodology with far more industry will likely get even higher in upcoming quarters, as flaws. Industry observers expressed the concerned that recent tax cuts are expected to boost consumer and business the shortcomings of LOS are being politicized to justify demand further throughout the year. As this happens, expect the types of projects the Brown administration wants and additional upward pressure on freight rates going forward. not the transportation infrastructure that California needs.

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WE APPRECIATE OUR MAR/APR 2018 WSTA PAC DONORS: Thomas V. Guglielmi Allan C. Young Trucking Construction Speciality Gravel ’N Grit L. R. Morris Wickerd Trucking, Inc. AC Byers Trucking Bill Wright Trucking Uber Tests Self Driving Trucks False Claims Act Case Ends in WSTAWESTERN STATES for Deliveries in Arizona Settlement for $1 Mil.+ TRUCKING ASSOCIATION At the end of 2017, Uber began using Volvo’s self-driv- While this is not a western federal court case, it raises ing trucks for deliveries in Arizona – according to a report in the specter of False Claims Act suits brought by a U. S. fed- WSTA PAC USA Today in February. eral prosecutor based on “whistleblower” testimony on bad The article said that the idea was tested last year by Uber, actions under a federal contract. No background (transparent) with black text who owns the fleet of the autonomous trucks and began con- The case, United States ex rel. Doe v. Beam Bros. Why Contribute to an Industry PAC? tracting with various trucking companies to use the vehicles Trucking, Inc., Civil Action No. 10-657 (D.N.J.), was to make deliveries throughout the state. brought under an 1863 federal law designed to stop mer- The WSTA PAC exists to educate lawmakers on issues of importance to our membership. The Truck drivers meet chants from overcharging the Union Army for military supplies. PAC Fund allows representatives of WSTA to attend campaign events and show support to the self-driving truck at lawmakers that have taken an interest in subjects important to you. a weigh station at the The trial judge dismissed the case because the federal Arizona state line, which prosecutor, the trucking company and the whistleblower drives the load through the reached a settlement agreement on March 12, 2018, when How PAC Funds are Used by Politicians state before transferring Bream Brothers, headquartered in Mt. Crawford, Vir., paid the load to a different tra- $1,025,000. The False Claims Act, in this case, applied be- ditional trucker for short- cause it was alleged “the company overcharged the U.S. Many have a healthy skepticism of our political process. But the fact remains, it cost money Postal Service on interstate mail truck delivery contracts.” to run successfully for a political offi ce. Politicians not supportive of your issues have little haul deliveries. During the autonomous portion of the trip, an Uber worker rides in the driver’s seat to “oversee,” not to drive. The case was brought by former employee/truck driver problem raising funds from unions and groups such as environmentalist whose views are not Bobby Blizzard. His complaint alleged, among other things, The trucks do not make deliveries because it is currently supportive of small-business. that Beam Bros. used Postal Service fuel cards for non-US too difficult for them to handle the ins and outs of urban traf- Postal deliveries when the cards were supposed to be used fic on their own, USA Today reported. only for US Postal Service deliveries. He added a charge Let Your Voice be Heard Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group created the hard- that Beam Bros. made its drivers violate Department of ware, software and sensors that allow the trucks to drive Transportation maximum driving time regulations on its Small-business trucking accounts for 97% of all active motor carriers. Large companies and themselves. The newspaper described the complex system US Postal Service routes. Blizzard also alleged he was fired as essentially creating an “advanced cruise-control option.” their associations often lobby for laws not favorable to the majority of the industry. WSTA PAC in retaliation for complaining to Beam Bros. about such The goal is to get truck drivers home to spend time with conduct. helps to “level the playing fi eld.” their families more quickly, rather than spending endless Under the so-call “qui tam” provisions of the False hours on the road. For example, one of Uber’s promotional Claims Act, Blizzard’s case was initially filed in court un- videos features a trucker from California who transfers his der seal and presented to the US Attorney’s Office for the I want my voice to be heard with my load to a self-driving truck at the Arizona border before pick- District of New Jersey, which investigated his allegation ing up another that needs to go back to California. and later joined in the matter. “The big step for us recently is that we can plan to haul According to the False Claims Act, Blizzard is entitled contribution to the WSTA PAC! goods in both directions, using Uber Freight to coordinate to receive between 15 and 25 percent of the settlement load pickups and dropoffs with local truckers,” said Alden amount from the Government, plus attorneys’ fees from Contribute online by going to westrk.org/pac or call us at (909) 982-9898. Woodrow, head of Uber’s self-driving truck initiative. Beam Bros. Those additional amounts, as well as the reso- “Keeping trucking local allows these drivers to make money lution of Blizzard’s retaliation claim against Beam Bros., while staying closer to home.” remain undecided. • In the future, provided self-driving technology takes This was not the first time the company had a run-in off, and regulations catch up, two trucking industry with federal prosecutors. Beam Brothers were hit hard options could play out, USA Today reported:First, May 2017, by the federal government as four of its officers self-driving trucks would do the long-haul driving pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, and the company was without anyone in the cab. Once the truck completes slapped with more than $3 million in fines, restitution and its portion of the trip, it would allow traditional truck forfeitures. drivers to take over and complete the deliveries in Blizzard is represented by Timothy J. McInnis, of NYC- more populated areas, like cities, or based McInnis Law, who commended his client’s courage • Uber could sell its self-driving truck technology to own- in speaking up internally and then taking the matter to the er-operators in the trucking industry that would then use Government, it to sleep while the truck drives itself on long hauls. “Without brave people like Bobby, misconduct like this would go on forever,” he said. “It’s the taxpayers who are Woodrow said he does not believe the company will hurt by fraud against the Government, and who benefit from maintain its fleet of the self-driving trucks but will sell the successful cases brought under the qui tam provisions of the technology to truck manufacturers or other entities. False Claims Act.” “Today we’re operating our trucks, but in the future, it The lesson for everybody else is that there is no fudg- remains to be seen what happens,” Woodrow said. “Trucking ing federal contracts. Federal U.S. Attorneys say they get 70 is a very large and sophisticated business with a lot of com- percent of their false claim case from disgruntled or alarmed panies in the value chain who are good at what they do. So people in the company to see if they can get a quarter mil- our desire is to partner.” lion payday, like whistleblower Blizzard.

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32 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org Toyota Enters Class 7 & 8 Operators of DOTAuthority.com Construction Truck Segment Motor Carrier Registration Service Toyota’s truck unit Hino is preparing to play with the Settle FTC Charges That They big boys in new Class 7 and Class 8 heavy-duty diesel-pow- ered trucks coming out soon, something the company says Misled Small Businesses Using has been an unmet challenge for other original equipment Fake Government Affiliation manufacturers over the last 50 years. The association constantly hears from members receiving what Production of the new Hino XL7 and XL8 will start in we term “scam” emails, phone calls, and letters telling them they early 2019. The new lineup will be American made, assem- need to perform some sort of task related to their motor carrier au- bled in Mineral Wells, West Virginia at the fully renovated thority at an outrageous fee. Oftentimes these scammers misrepresent one million square foot state-of-the-art production facility who they are and imply they are related to the US Government. They that Hino acquired in 2017. are not. The vast majority of the time what they tell you is untrue. The lineup On March 19, 2018 the Federal Trade Commission made the features new ac- following announcement regarding one of these “third-party” pur- tive safety solutions with elec- veyors and their marketing tactics: tronic stability Washington D.C. – The operators of a registration ser- control (standard vice for motor carriers have agreed to settle Federal Trade on tractor) and Commission charges that they impersonated, or falsely claimed collision miti- affiliation with, the U.S. Department of Transportation and gation systems, other government agencies to get small trucking businesses innovative pay- Toyota jumped feet-first into the heavy truck market at to pay them for federal and state motor carrier registrations. load manage- the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis March 14th, with the debut of the Hino XL Series. Consumers who own and oper- ment suspension ate certain types of commercial ve- options, and a bodybuilder friendly optimized design en- hicles must register annually with the gineered for maximum ease of serviceability, the company Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) said in announcing the new trucks. system or their state government and Hino’s 8.9-liter A09 engine powers both classes. This pay a fee based on their fleet size. engine that has been in global production for more than a These trucking businesses can typi- decade, offering the proven technology. According to Glenn cally register through the official UCR Ellis, vice president of customer experience, these engines website or the official website of their state. Some of them have logged more than 15 billion miles the world-over. also must file a Motor Carrier Identification Report every The engine features a two years, which can be done at no charge on the Federal range of 300-360 horsepow- Motor Carrier Safety Administration website. er and up to 1,150 lb.-ft., of torque. In September 2016, the FTC charged that James P. Lamb, Uliana Bogash, DOTAuthority.com Inc., DOTFilings.com Inc., The XL Series comes Excelsior Enterprises International Inc. and JPL Enterprises in several straight truck and Inside, the truck features an automotive International Inc. tricked small businesses into purchasing their tractor configurations rang- grade interior with a larger split-bench registration services by falsely claiming to be affiliated with ing from a GVWR of 33,000 seat and cockpit-style dash. to 60,000 pounds and a GCWR up to 66,000 pounds. government agencies in violation of the FTC Act. They also allegedly failed to disclose the service fee associated with their The company has relied heavily on major trucking compo- services or to adequately distinguish it from the actual govern- nent manufacturers. Both the Class 7 and Class 8 truck come ment registration fee. In addition, the FTC alleged that the de- standard with Dana axles and drivelines, Wabco brakes and fendants failed to disclose adequately that they were enrolling Hendrickson suspension. No word on who’s the wheel manu- consumers in an automatic billing service for future payments facturer, but presumably, they did not re-invent that either. in violation of the Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act. Tractor configurations come standard with Wabco’s Under the settlement order, the defendants are banned from stability control platform and the company’s OnGuard misrepresenting affiliation with any government entity and Active is available as an option. Hino Insight, the com- from using consumers’ billing information to obtain payments pany’s telematic platform, will be standard as will LED without consumers’ express consent. They must also adequate- headlights. ly disclose that they are a private third-party service provider The evolution of Hino’s lineup isn’t expected to stop and any fees associated with their services. The order imposes with its entry into the upper end of the market. Hino Trucks a $900,000 judgment that must be paid within one day. President Yoshinori Noguchi says over next three years the The Commission vote approving the stipulated final or- company will provide dealers with a revamped truck lineup. der was 2-0. The FTC filed the proposed order in the U.S. Once the Class 7 and 8 units hit the road in 2019, he says District Court for the Southern District of Florida. the company will then set its sights on redesigning current NOTE: Stipulated final orders or injunctions have the force models. of law when approved and signed by the District Court judge.

Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 33 Can Somebody Hack Your One day, automobile-based malware could allow crimi- Autonomous Truck? nals, terrorists, or hostile governments – known in the cyber Driverless cars, trucks with driver-assist systems are world as “threat actors” – to take active control of your truck poised to change transportation as profoundly and as quickly and use it for whatever they want – maybe delivering the as the Internet has changed shopping and communications. goods in the trailer to a “different” address or as we have seen with humans behind the wheel committing act of terror With rapid change come quickly mounting problems. on our streets. In the case of autonomous vehicles a major concern is the “hacking” of the complex computers and software that will White-hat hackers hired by the ISAC demonstrated what guide these cars and trucks of the future. is possible so the industry can fix problems before disaster strikes. The white-hat hacker team showed in 2014 that it There is an industry group of car and truck manufactur- was possible to take control of a passenger car and remotely ers working under the umbrella name Surface Transportation engage the brakes while it was traveling down the road. The ISAC that is assembling to deal with this issue. In a world automakers fixed that particular security flaw. awash with acronyms this group is packed full of them. For example, ST, The computer code that will drive the PT and OTRB ISAC stand for Surface AV revolution will come from tech com- Transportation, Public Transportation, panies, parts suppliers, and mapping and Over-The-Road, Bus, Information sensor companies from around the world, Sharing and Analysis Centers, which is many from China and Europe. Malware of a mouthful. By the way there are other a mysterious origin has on occasion been ISACs being formed for other sectors of found factory loaded in the operating code the economy. of consumer goods like thumb drives and cell phones. Malware in an insignificant The ST, PT and OTRB ISACs is place – in the controls of the seat warmers, trusted, transportation sector specific, for example – can be configured to com- with 24/7 incident reporting and threat Autonomous vehicles present both opportunity mandeer the car’s internet or Bluetooth warning entities that establish the trans- and threats to the future of transportation connection and download a full control kit portation sector’s specific information/intelligence require- from a distant server. ments for incidents, threats and vulnerabilities. They provide an electronic trusted ability for the membership to exchange Through Interfaces and share information on cyber, physical and natural threats • There are now multiple ways cars connect with the to defend critical infrastructure. Their website is surface- outside world digitally. Each is a potential pathway transportationisac.org. for malware, including the following: Examples of the first wave of this technology that is • The internet connection that enables the navigation on the road now include adaptive cruise control, front crash system to function avoidance, and lane assist systems. When fully implement- • The Bluetooth interface that connects your phone to ed, the Automated Vehicle (AV) technology promises to do the car’s infotainment system the following: • Slash highway deaths and injuries • The diagnostic ports through which your mechanic • Eliminate most fender benders can access the car’s onboard computer • Allow interconnected vehicles to flow at top speeds • The USB ports that allow you to plug in thumb on congested highways drives with song lists • Expand transportation options for the disabled and Through V2V Networks elderly Eventually, cars will connect to each other through ve- • Eventually, replace car ownership with fleets of hicle-to-vehicle (V2V) networks. Cars within about 1,000 self-driving cars that come when we call and take us feet of each other will create an ad hoc wireless network to wherever we like. signal each other about their speed and direction, stops and All indications are that this future is coming at us much turns, road conditions, and unseen dangers. In March 2017, more quickly than seemed possible before now. But there is Cadillac put the first such cars on the road. For now, they a looming pothole – cybersecurity. can only communicate with their sister Cadillacs. Cyber-Future is Now But in the future, most cars on the road will wirelessly In many ways, the digital vehicle is here already. The connect to nearby cars. If security flaws allow it, threat ac- more advanced cars on the road today employ about 100 tors can exploit V2V networks to push out malware or to million lines of computer code. That code directs more than spread havoc on the road directly. 100 electronic control devices that run the car. Today’s auto- Welcome to the brave new world which sounds a lot like mobiles are in a sense computers with seats and an engine. the Wild West.

34 March/April 2018 westrk.org • westransnews.org For Better Health, Just Add Water By Dr. John McElligott “Just add water.” You see these simple words you sweat. You should add 12 ounces of water to your daily everywhere at your local grocery store. What you total for every 30 minutes of exercise. So, if you work out for may not know is this also applies to you. I’m talk- 45 minutes daily, you should add 18 ounces of water to the ing WATER, not sodas, coffee, or other sugary recommended amount for your body weight. drinks. Lots of water all day long. Low water intake, weight gain, and hypertensive medica- Water (identified by its chemical formula as H2O) is the tions with a diuretic put you at a greater risk of becoming de- single, most-important resource your body needs. Your body hydrated. If this happens, you will begin to feel the systemic is mostly water. As much as 60% to 65 % water, depending effects of running out of water. This is what you will notice: on who you listen to, and your blood is 93% to 95% water, 5 Early Warning Signs depending on how well you stay This means you need to get busy drinking water. hydrated. Everyone needs as an ab- 1. Dry tongue solute minimum, two liters of water 2. Dark yellow/amber urine in the morning/upon awakening a day. A small portion of which can 3. Dry eyes come from certain food groups such 4. Headache as fruits and vegetables. Avoid salt 5. Foggy felling and irritability since it sucks water out of the cells and into the blood stream. Greater 5 Serious Warning Signs that 2 grams a day of sodium can You’ll experience the beginning of more noticeable and affect hydration depending on the more serious systemic changes that are telling you to drink body mass. more water: Over-the-road drivers (OTRs) who are perfectly healthy and 1. Tiredness have normal body weight generally don’t have as much trouble 2. Constipation i.e. hard and painful bowel movements, maintaining body hydration. A person with a lean body mass has and remember water is the best stool softener. proportionately more water onboard than a person with extra fat. 3. Dark amber urine, low volume, frequent urination Fat cells are inefficient and just take up space. You will recognize due to heavily concentrated urine that “extra space” when you let out your belt one more notch. 4. No tears, eyes feel like the Mohave Desert Overweight drivers do not maintain a steady fluid state as easily 5. Cramps, a calling in the lower extremities and need more water to keep thing going. 5 Signs of Pending Doom Here are six good reason to drink lots of water: At this point, dehydration has entered its final stages, and 1. Drinking water helps maintain body fluids balance you’re in serious trouble. (required for digestion, absorption, circulation, saliva 1. Tenting of the skin creation, nutrient transportation, and body tempera- 2. Low blood pressure ture regulation) 3. Faster heart rate 2. Water can help control calories (substitute water for 4. No urine flow a surgery drink) 5. Fever and collapse 3. Helps energize muscles (low water=electrolytes Here are Dr. John’s Big 5 tips for drinking more water: imbalance=muscle fatigue) 1. Drink water slowly through the day. 2-3 liters is a 4. Water helps keep skin looking good (look good, feel good goal. Hot weather and outdoor exposure you good) may need more. I personally shoot for 3 liters but am 5. Water helps your kidneys (needed to flush wastes) very active. 6. Help maintain normal bowel function (prevents 2. No sugar drinks are a must! Sugar is converted in- constipation) stantly to bad fat in your liver. While no single formula fits everyone, simply remember 3. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Their high-water that more is better. It’s very difficult to overdose on water. content will add to your hydration. Why? Water provides the body with the ability to basically stay 4. Keep a bottle/case of water with you in your truck, alive. Some drivers drink coffee, soft drinks, fruit drinks, and car, at your desk, or in your bag. energy drinks. While these drinks provide some water, it’s not 5. Have a source of water (bottle or thermos) with you enough to satisfy the body’s need for cell hydration. Under- all day long. Take lots of small sips during the day hydration contributes to weight gain and poor sleep, while rather than drinking a lot all at once. diminishing overall health. Water is a life-changing and even I along with many others in the medical profession, believe life-saving requirement, so stay hydrated. water prevents heart attacks. When the body is low on water, so is the blood. This causes blood to flow less like water and more like How Much Water is Enough? thick 10W50 oil. There is also less blood volume, so it becomes Following is the basic approach to determining how much viscous and difficult for the heart to pump it past any blockage, water you should drink each day to maintain your health. especially in the brain and heart. Thick blood is also more likely 1. Multiply your weight by 2/3 (or 67%) to determine to grab onto plaque, break it lose, and carry it to the heart or brain. how much water to drink daily. For example, if you Blood clots are also a consideration when body water is low. weigh 180 pounds, just multiply that by 2/3 to determine Remember, just from breathing, you can lose 1-2 liters in you should be drinking approximately 120 ounces (3.5 a 24-hour period, even more if you use a CPAP during sleep. liters) of water every day. When you face delivery deadlines and are focused on driving 2. Activity Level: Finally, you should adjust that number based 500 to 600 miles a day, it’s easy to forget about hydration. Keep on how often you exercise, since you are expelling water when in mind, your health, and maybe even your life, are at stake.

Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 35 Opinion 2016 campaign, in his first address to a Joint Session of Congress “How Badly Do You Want It?” in February of 2017 after being sworn in, and again during his Trump's Infrastructure Proposal By Mike Joyce first official State-of-the-Union Address to Congress on January Two days before Valentine’s 30, 2018. The President was a builder in his private life, and wants Day, the President of the United to continue to be a builder in his public life. And of all the hot but- ton issues the Congress deals with on a daily basis, not many dis- States met with Governors, some agree with infrastructure investment. Republicans, Democrats, and Cabinet Secretary’s, Mayors and lo- Independents agree, we have underinvested in our Nation’s roads, cal officials at the White House to bridges, transit, airports, water, wastewater, rail, energy, and even roll out his infrastructure investment broadband infrastructure. But, not everyone agrees on the proper proposal, having refined his ideas path to making a large commitment and investment in this infra- with his White House staff, ideas he’s structure, and navigating the multiple committees on Capitol Hill been preaching since his 2016 presidential campaign. It was that could have jurisdiction over this type of legislation (as many as a day transportation and infrastructure advocates have waited eleven Committees), may be a hurdle unto itself. In the days, weeks, for, and a day that has begun “the process” for what could be and months ahead we shall see if Congress will support President legislation in the future. Trump’s brand of infrastructure investment. With some strong opposition already noted – opposition to tolling, use of public-private Most will admit, whether you like it or not, this President partnerships, and/or requiring states to dig up even more revenue to is pretty candid communicating what he really thinks, and his even get a shot at a portion of the pot of money that might be on the opening lines welcoming his guests to the White House on table, we shall find out. that Monday perfectly summarized his investment philoso- phy. Among his proverbial statements of how exciting it was Even with the traditional bipartisan nature of trans- to be talking about infrastructure, the President offered a chal- portation and infrastructure policy, this year – 2018 – is a lenge to elected officials in attendance and across the country, terribly difficult year to move anything legislatively, in stating, let’s “see how badly you want it, cause if you want particular the further we get into the year. It is, after all, a it badly you’re going to get it; and if you don’t want it that’s Mid-Term Election year, when all 435 seats in the House o.k. with me too.” So, in the weeks, and months ahead, state of Representatives are up for grabs, and roughly 1/3 of the and local infrastructure planners will need to determine how U.S. Senate. Mid-Term Elections rarely, rarely are support- badly they want it – how much skin they’re willing to put ive of the party that occupies the White House. Meaning, in the game. Putting it bluntly, the President’s proposal will for the time being, the Mid-Term Elections increasingly fa- force states and locals to decide, do they want to dedicate rev- vor Democrats, and Democrats see an opportunity to regain enue to infrastructure, possibly having to raise taxes to match seats in the House, some even going so far to think they some portion of the $200 billion pot of money the President’s could take over the House again. Of course, a record number proposal would provide, and/or do they want to engage with of Republican House Members are also calling it quits, retir- the private sector through PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships). ing this year, which creates challenges for the Republican party. Bottom line, will the President have the support he Much of the President’s 55-page “Building A Stronger needs to get infrastructure legislation across the finish line, America” proposal, was as anticipated. It encourages the or will infrastructure be taken hostage and used for political streamlining of environmental regulations to get projects gains by the parties, each blaming the other for not address- into the construction phase sooner rather than later. These ing such a bipartisan issue. streamlining proposals build upon what Congress encour- I recently visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential aged in the last highway authorization bill from 2015, the Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, by way of FAST Act that expires in 2020. It also follows on the heels of the Ronald Reagan Freeway, and yes it was congested try- executive orders President Trump has already signed during ing to get out of LA. One display at the Museum caught his Presidency. my eye, given the tumultuous, partisan nature of the political world that impacts public policy in D.C. these days. On President Trump’s proposal includes essentially five display were two plaques President Reagan kept on his desk buckets of resources, money that states and local govern- in the Oval Office, guiding him during negotiations with ments could “have at.” Of the $200 billion proposal, $100 Democratic Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neill. One plaque billion would create an Incentive Program – a grant program, read, “There’s no limit to what a man can do or where he where states would have to bring additional resources to the can go if he does not mind who gets the credit.” The second table; $50 billion dedicated to a new “Rural Infrastructure plaque read, “It CAN be done.” We’ll see if any of those Program;” $20 billion directed to a “Transformative Projects Reagan tactics are employed by President Trump in the Program,” mostly spearheaded by the U.S. Department of months ahead to move infrastructure along. Commerce; $20 billion allocated to current infrastructure financing programs such as TIFIA, WIFIA, RRIF, with $6 Mike Joyce was a keynote speaker during the WSTA Winter board meeting in billion going to Private Activity Bonds; and a $10 billion Ontario. Mike is one of Washington’s most effective policy strategists specializing in transportation, infrastructure, trade, and tax policy. Mike has previously worked new “Federal Capital Revolving Fund.” for the American Trucking Association, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief of Legislative Affairs, five years as the Washington, D.C. representative The President has certainly embraced infrastructure more so for PACCAR Inc, and helped open the Washington, D.C. office of the Owner- than his predecessors, publicly citing “infrastructure” during his Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA).

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40-49 Years 5-9 Years Member Name Company Name Join Chap Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. John R. Banta Banta Transport 2013 SBR Mr. Patrick Colantuono P.C. Trucking Inc. 1978 HD Mr. Donald W. Benson W.A. Woods Industries, Inc. 2013 SOCAL Steve Bogetti Bogetti Water Trucks, Inc. 2012 MOD Mr. Ronald V. Crenna Ron Crenna Trucking 1973 GG Mr. Ed Deluca Berkeley Concrete Pumping, Inc. 2011 GG Mr. Axle Karlshoej Nordic Industries Inc. 1973 SAC Mr. Richard Gonzales Roadrunner Construction 2012 CC Mr. Jose Hernandez Lil Foolio’s Trucking 2013 SBR 30-39 Years Mr. Scott S. Hert S.S. Hert Trucking, Inc. 2013 HD Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. Tony E. Hobbs Baker Trucking Inc. 2012 SC Mr. Rick Jensen H2O To Go Water Trucks Inc. 2012 SOCAL Mr. Florian E. Courville Florian E. Courville 1987 HD Joe Jimenez Alfalfa’s Transport, Inc. 2012 SBR Mr. Jim Courville J. Courville Trucking 1988 SBR Mr. Dominic Judge HJ Construction, Inc. 2013 CC Ms. Jennifer Gemignani West Coast Water & Trucking, Inc. 2013 SAC Mr. Paul Courville P.C.C. Trucking Inc. 1988 SBR Mr. Allen G. Keithley Keithly Transportation 2013 GG Mr. Sal Di Salvo Sal Di Salvo Trucking, Inc. 1988 MOD Mr. John R. Martin Double M Trucking, Inc. 2012 FF Mr. John Murray II M & J Transportation Services, Inc. 2011 CC Mr. Russell Leach J & L Material Inc. 1988 COA William B. Parham Jr. P.S.T.S. Inc. 2012 MON Mr. David Merrigan D & E Merrigan Inc. 1984 HD Mr. Eugene J. Pires E J Pires Trucking 2012 GG Ms. Pamela G. Michaels P.J.M. Transportation 1987 SBR Mr. Noel Ramos Noel Ramos Trucking 2012 SBR

MEMBERS CORNER Mr. Thomas R. Raycraft T. Ray Farms, Inc. 2012 FF Mr. Clay Miranda Clay Miranda Trucking Inc. 1982 FRE Mr. Tim Sample Tim Sample Inc. 2010 GG Mr. Richard Straus Earth Works 1988 MON Mr. Steve Ward Steve Ward Trucking 2013 SBR Mr. Bryan Weber Weber General Engineering 2013 FF 20-29 Years Mr. Frank Zabel Frank Zabel Trucking, Inc. 2012 RED Member Name Company Name Join Chap 0-4 Years Mr. Adrian L. Essenberg ESDO Jr. Trucking 1996 SFV Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. Charles Richard Faler Rick Faler Trucking 1989 HD Mr. Juan Acevedo ACV Transportation 2017 SOCAL Mr. Eric Augmon Tycoon Transport Inc. 2018 SBR Mr. Rod Fowler Fowler Trucking Inc. 1997 SBR Mr. Alfredo Beltran Beltran Transport 2017 SOCAL Mr. Charles Gaylord Gaylord Trucking 1992 HD Mr. Greg E. Bombard Avalon Freight Services LLC 2016 SOCAL Mr. Kevin Brennick Atlas Crane Service 2017 SD Mr. David Grande Material Transport 1996 CC Ms. Deborah Brown Women Truck Brokers 2018 FRE Mr. Walter Hines Hines Trucking 1989 GG Milla Bulatovich GP Transportation Co. 2018 OUT Mr. Isabel V. Chavez Chavez & Sons Trucking, LLC 2015 FF Mr. Robert Nard Nard Trucking 1994 COA Mr. Efrain Chiprez Jr. -Lopez West Coast Transporter 2017 SBR Mr. Roger Sauer Sauer Trucking, Inc. 1989 SOCAL Mr. Luis Cordero L. Cordero Trucking 2017 SBR Mr. Phong L. Dang L-D Trucking 2017 SBR Mr. Ralph Silveria Silveria Trucking 1989 GG Mr. Harry McGregor Advanced Structural Technologies Inc. 2017 CC Ms. Lidia A. Tarango L Tarango Trucking 1993 GG Mr. Edward T. Denny, Jr. F & E Trucking Corporation 2016 SD Ms. Courtney A. Drummond Drummond Transport 2017 OUT Mr. Scott Taylor Scott Taylor Transport 1989 RED Mr. Dale Edelstein Cyclone Transport 2017 OUT Mr. Jose Estrella Ramos Grp. Inc. 2017 SBR Mr. Mark Uyekawa M.H. Uyekawa Inc. 1996 SOCAL Mr. Oscar Montano Montano Trucking, Inc. 2018 SBR Mr. Pablo Flores Direct Courier Inc. 2016 SOCAL 10-19 Years Mr. Armando Gonzalez A.G. Trucking 2015 SFV Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. Oral Grant Hypa Active Transport 2017 OUT Arnoldo & Anahi Gutierrez Gutierrez Trucking, LLC 2017 CM Mr. George Brocco M. Brocco & Sons Inc. 2002 GG Mr. Tony Ray Harris Harris Transfer Inc. 2018 SBR Mr. Robert B. Cameron Robert Cameron Trucking 2000 SBR Mr. Benny Jefferson Neponset Ag 2018 MON Ms. Marie Koprowski Leighton Specialties 2017 ANT Mr. James Campanella Inner City Demolition Inc. 2002 GG Ms. Shirley Lopez Blue Road Transport Inc. 2018 SOCAL Mr. Alfred Castellanos Alfred Castellanos Trucking 2001 SD Mr. Juan Martin TM Johnny Trucking 2017 SBR Mr. John McIntosh John E McIntosh Trucking 2014 MON Mr. Christopher Joseph Cox CALn Trucking 2001 SBR Mr. Bill McRae McRae Trucking 2014 MON Mr. Ron Foster Foster & Son Trucking 2002 SIE Mr. Miguel Miranda 3531 Trucking Inc 2017 SOCAL Mr. Edward S. Morales Los Morales Trucking 2017 SOCAL Mr. Uris D Kemp Uris Kemp Trucking, Inc. 2008 GG Mr. Dion Parker Express Holdings LLC 2017 SBR Mr. Robert Kirk Kirk Trucking Co. 2000 SAC Mr. Alejandro Ponce Alex’s Trucking 2017 SOCAL Mr. Melquiades Ramirez Mechrilen Transportation 2015 SBR Mr. Danny Machado Earth Basics Trucking 2000 SBR Mr. Mark Rangel SoCal Transport Inc. 2018 SFV Mr. Leon Manning Leon Manning Trucking 2002 HD Mr. Jason Leggett A Plus Tree, Inc. 2017 GG Mr. Steven Sanders Sanders & Sanders Trucking 2000 FF Mr. Miguel Angel Rodriguez Rodriguez Trucking 2018 SOCAL Mr. Travis Smith PCS Motor Sports LLC 2017 OUT Mr. Chris E. Torres F & L Farms Trucking Inc. 2002 FF Ms. Maria Suarez GoGo Transport 2017 HD Mr. Dan Ugalde Ugalde Trucking Co., Inc. 2000 SOCAL Mr. Ken Talley Talley Transportation Inc. 2018 FRE Mr. Dan Ugalde Jr. DBE Rentals 2018 SOCAL Ms. Margie Walton Naton Tractor, Inc. 2002 SD Ms. Kathaleen Wells Western Hiway Transport Inc. 2015 FRE

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50-59 Years 5-9 Years Member Name Company Name Join Chap Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. Don L. Winslow Winslow Trucking 1963 SAC Mr. Lance Allan Roy Allan Slurry Seal, Inc. 2013 SOCAL 40-49 Years Mr. Garth Bennett Bennett Transportation Inc. 2013 SOCAL Mr. Glenn Butcher Butchers Block & Building Materials 2013 SBR Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. Richard Hay Bed Rock Products Inc. 2012 GG Mr. John Nicholls Nicholls Trucking Inc. 1977 RED Mr. Steve Hemmingsen Hemmingsen Construction Co. Inc. 2012 RED Mr. Richard T. Siri Rich Ted Trucking 1977 GG Ms. Yolanda Moya YMD Material Broker Inc. 2012 HD

30-39 Years Mr. Frank V. Spingolo F & M Trucking Company Inc. 2010 MOD Member Name Company Name Join Chap 0-4 Years Mr. Henry L. Cerutti Cerutti and Sons Transportation Co. 1987 FRE Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. Matthew Griffin Griffin Trucking 1987 MOD Mr. Charles Hartman Hartman Trucking 1986 SD Mr. Marcello Arriola Marcello Logistics, Inc. 2017 SOCAL Mr. Len Harvey Len Harvey Trucking 1988 SBR Mr. Craig Bodkin TCB Transport Inc. 2017 SOCAL Mr. Kevin Martin K.L. Martin Trucking 1984 SBR Mr. Luis Calderon Cuscatlan Trucking 2017 SOCAL Ms. Patti Pirkle-Glamuzina Pirkle Trucking & Equipment Rental Inc. 1986 SOCAL Mr. Carlos Camacho KJC Brothers Inc. 2016 SBR

Mr. Daniel Trevino, Jr. Trevino Trucking 1987 SBR Ms. Rocio Carrillo Gonzalez Heavy Haul, Inc. 2015 SBR

Mr. Rick Williams Williams Ink 1980 GG Mrs. Gwendolyn M. Carson C G Transportation 2017 OUT

Mr. James C. Young Young Trucking 1987 HD Mr. Jose Conrado NY Transport, Inc. 2014 SBR Mr. Jesus Zepeda J & I Trucking 1987 SOCAL Mr. Isaac David ACO Transportation LLC 2018 SFV

20-29 Years Ralph Rico & Fernando Rico Rico Trucking LLC 2017 SBR

Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. Don Fowler Fowler General Construction Inc. 2018 GG

Mr. Warren M. Angel Warren M. Angel Trucking 1996 HD Mr. Lance Goblirsch Goblirsch Trucking Inc. 2014 MOD

Mr. Melvin C. Brown Melvin Brown Backhoe & Trucking 1993 GG Mr. Rafael Godinez Transportes Rafa de BC 2016 CM

Mr. Thomas Brown W. T. B. Inc. 1992 FRE Mr. Ivan Grajeda Grajeda Transportation LLC 2018 SOCAL

Mr. Thomas G. Clyde Select Transport Inc. 1996 HD Mr. Andres Herrera Herrera & Sons Transportation 2017 KER

Ms. Susan Jones D & S Trucking, LLC 1993 GG Mr. Floyd A. Hockless Quick Cargo 48 2018 SBR

Mr. William McCreary Davidson Trucking 1998 FF Mr. Phillip P. Indihar Quality Construction 2017 GG

Mr. Aubrey Dale Morris Aubrey Dale Morris 1996 SBR Mrs. Joanna Johnson G and J Trucking 2017 SBR

Ms. Carolyn Pendergrass Pendergrass Trucking Inc. 1996 SC Mr. Anthony Johnson Liberty Three Inc. 2017 SBR

Mr. Noshi (Charlie) Saied Saied Trucking Co. 1993 SFV Mr. Steve Koshmerl Healthcare Equipment Leasing & Loaners LLC 2017 SBR

Mr. Phillip Sanderson Sanderson Trucking 1993 GG Bryan Lesch Quest Equipment and Hauling, Inc. 2018 SBR CORNER MEMBERS

Mr. Douglas B. Veerkamp Doug Veerkamp General Engineering 1990 SAC Mr. Luis Alberto Maldonado MM Transport 2017 SBR

Mr. Mike Warren Van’s Paving & Grading 1992 SAC Ms. Gina Markos Bubba’s Water Truck Service Inc. 2017 FRE

Mr. Neil Whitty Neil Whitty 1990 MON Mr. Leland McCorkle McCorkle Farms, Inc. 2015 SC

Mr. Francis R. Wooldridge F. R. Wooldridge Trucking 1991 SBR Mr. Mike McDonell PCC Logistics 2017 GG 10-19 Years Mr. Max D. Miller Max D. Miller 2018 OUT Member Name Company Name Join Chap Mr. Jerry Mills JAM Contractors LLC 2017 OUT Mr. Jeff Archer Archer Trucking Inc. 2005 GG Ms. Maria Molina Interior Demolition, Inc. 2014 SFV

Mr. Gordon Archer G & J Heavy Haul, Inc. 2005 SAC Ms. Jennifer O’Dowd Dog House Trucking LLC 2016 SBR Mr. Bruce Balala Bruce Balala Excavating 2007 FF Mr. Eduardo Palma EEM Palma Trucking Inc. 2018 SOCAL Mr. Charlie L. Clark Three D Service Company, Inc. 2008 SBR Mr. Danny Pelayo Yard Masters Inc. 2017 MOD Mr. Javier De La Torre De La Torre Trucking, LLC 2006 FF Mr. Aly Maged Elsalawy Delta Development Company 2004 SD Ms. Nicole Perez Bernardo Concrete, Inc. 2016 SOCAL Mr. William R. Hill Hill Transfer Service 2002 SD Mr. Alan Ponce Ponce Ground Service LLC 2016 SBR

Mr. Jose G. Lopez J M Trucking Inc. 2001 SBR Mr. Jesse Rodriguez Eco Mineral Transport Inc. 2017 SBR Mr. Eric Neer E.A.N. Trucking, LLC 2002 SBR Mr. David Salcedo All Purpose Warehouse, Inc. 2017 SD Mr. Steve Nuttall Steve Nuttall Trucking, Inc. 2001 CC Ms. Rebecca Srulowitz Hershys Logistics 2017 OUT Mr. Corey Wardlaw Wardlaw Trucking 2008 GG Mr. Denny Mahler Graniterock Company 2007 MON Mr. Mark Zamora MJZ Trucking Inc. 2017 SOCAL

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Volume - 77 Number - 3/4 Integrity ◊ Professionalism ◊ Education ◊ Safety 41 NEW ASSOCIATION MEMBERS Bryan Lesch Mr. Miguel Angel Mr. Ivan Grajeda Mr. David Duran Quest Equipment and Rodriguez Grajeda Transportation LLC David Duran Hauling, Inc. Rodriguez Trucking Los Angeles Hesperia Yucaipa Los Angeles Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Mr. Alvin L. Daniels Mr. Eric Augmon Gray Daniels Transport LLC Tycoon Transport Inc. Cedar Hill, TX Mr. Isaac David Mr. Floyd A. Hockless Rancho Cucamonga Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz ACO Transportation LLC Quick Cargo 48 Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Ms. Deborah Brown Sherman Oaks Menifee Women Truck Brokers Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Mr. Dan Ugalde Jr. Fresno DBE Rentals Huntington Beach Mr. Benny Jefferson Milla Bulatovich Mr. Max D. Miller Sponsor: Rudy Navarrete Neponset Ag GP Transportation Co. Max D. Miller Castroville Lemont, IL Rome City, IN Ms. Brenda Zeruneith Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Mr. Chris Meyer Elias Bros. Contractors Inc. High Sierra Industries Pomona Diamond Springs OBITUARY Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Sponsor: Larry Jenkins MEMBERS CORNER FRANK C. ALEGRE Mr. Robert Lorentz Mr. Eduardo Palma Arrive and Drive LLC EEM Palma Trucking Inc. 1935-2018 Palmer Lake, CO Westminster Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz Frank C. Alegre passed away on March 25, 2018 Sponsor: Joe Rajkovacz in Lodi, California. Frank was born March 2, 1935 in Stockton, California to Joe and Vera Alegre. Raised in Tracy, California, he graduated from Tracy High WSTA 2018-2019 STATE OFFICERS School in 1950. Frank worked on the family dairy, and his father gave him the choice to go to college or get a new car. He chose the new car. President Frank met his wife, Helen Mayer, of Lodi in 1955 Danny Rocha in Stockton, California. They soon eloped and were married on October 22, 1955. After working on the dairy for a couple of years, Secretary Frank decided it was not for him. Frank and Helen moved to Lodi in Sandra Alzate 1960. After selling feed for a few years, he bought his first truck in 1963. Frank’s business grew from 1 truck to several in the 1960’s, and in 1973 he incorporated his business to what it is today: Frank Treasurer C. Alegre Trucking, Inc. Frank’s business grew due to his hard work Kelvin Monzon and keen vision. On January 1, 2000 Frank and Helen passed on st the leadership role to Tony Alegre, their middle son. The company 1 Northern Vice President has been a member of the Western States Trucking Association John Pitta since 2001. The company now has over 200 employees and dispatches 1st Southern Vice President 170 units and 400 sets of trailers of its own, while maintaining Victor Vasquez, Sr. contracts with many independent owner-operators. With roots in the dirt-moving portion of the construction industry, the company nd has expanded into hauling construction materials and bulk foods 2 Northern Vice President products. Still located in the San Joaquin Valley with its main Tom Santoro terminal in Lodi, California the business has grown and has nd terminals Stockton and Fowler. 2 Southern Vice President Frank was creative and dedicated in his quest to become one of Michael Attema the largest family-owned construction commodities and bulk foods hauling trucking companies in Northern California. Frank had a Past President no-nonsense attitude and was an extremely driven person. You Aaron Rodriguez always knew where he stood on issues, and he was outspoken and passionate about the things for which he cared. WSTA officers are elected for two year terms. Frank will be greatly missed by his sons, Frank Jr, Anthony/Tony Service on the Executive Board is a great way to (Kellie), and Gary; and grandchildren, Andress (Lacey), Audrey give something back to your industry, and is also an Georguson (Paul), Adrienne Sanchez (Mike), Adeline, Shandi Hunt education in government procedures. (Jeff), and Alexander (Austin). He also leaves behind his great Elections occur every two years. If you are interested grandchildren, Sawyer and Sedona Alegre; Michael, Anthony and in serving as an elected officer, please contact our Mila Sanchez; Brighton and Briggs Georguson; Asen, Nova, and office 909-982-9898. Emery Hunt; and Hayleigh, Madison, and Carson Alegre.

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