Dan Gibbs (CO Summit County Commissioner)
Think about the power a county commissioner has over what traffic moves on an interstate highway. (Answer: None whatsoever.) It is simply getting press exposure and nothing more. This little issue does not even rise to "tempest in a teapot" status.
So agree with you Mr. Harris however these thing do snowball, and while you do have federal law that prevent restriction, most trucks operated outside the federal law, and under state law. I run 53 foot reefer 102" wide. That above the federal law of 48 feet 98" wide. There are easy things that an county commission can do to cut down on trucks fast and legal.
My letter is/was to The trucker about the former ski train. Gets alot cars off the road, using private money. The only price to be paid is to limited the liability issues.
Also the federal law is easily voided, Ohio closed I70 an few years back to trucks during an construction period. Per Federal law you can't do that but they did. No reason other to keep rush out traffic moving out of downtown Columbus. They also did it down in Cincinnati with more force. (must vist court house). So to limited truck traffic on an interstate it can be done. Best one I ever heard about was drug testing of CMV driver at a state line. Truck were stop for 250 miles to skip have some cop watch them go pee.
In short tourist money is big, and it might be big enough to change freight patterns. I don't carry chains, so in winter I go down thur Albuquerque (From Denver)to get to Los Angeles. Heck with the new chain up area I can not get to Denver from the east with out chains.
Thanks for the replies.