Posted by ScottyHOMEy on December 04, 2008 at 05:38:47 from (70.105.231.235):
In Reply to: Coast Gaurd TWIC card posted by john in la on December 03, 2008 at 21:14:44:
My neighbor and a buddy were howling about it the other night. The one of them hauls a lot of fuel from marine depots. His company hauls a lot of jet fuel for the military, so he already has a whole wallet full of ID cards for airports and bases. This will be just one more.
Arguments for the TWIC are basically to require the sort of check and identification that's required for access to the secure areas of an airport, and applying that to marine ports. Not a bad idea as far as it goes.
The cost is a little crazy. $132.50, or $105.25 if you've had a similar background check for another purpose. It's not clear if the background check required to get and keep a hazmat endorsement on your license is considered "similar" enough to qualify for the lower cost. Having one replaced costs only $60, which suggests to me there's a revenue consideration attached to all this in addition to enhancing security.
They also seem to make it difficult to acquire. You have to appear in person to apply and then, four weeks later appear to pick it up. They won't mail it. I looked up a local port, and their registration center is a small building with no turnaround or parking for trucks. The port in question is nothing more than a tank farm with racks for loading twelve trucks. Everybody from local independent fuel dealers loading 4000 gal of #2 to fuel distributors from upstate hauling 9000 gal of regular five hours back to the northern reaches of the state. All of those folks are going to need a card, and it appears that at least those hauling trailers will have to make two separate trips in something other than a big truck to get to the center to apply for and pick them up. That can be two ten-hour trips for some of those people.
It would make a lot more sense to have the center located right at the port, and maybe that's the case with some of the larger ones, but certainly not in this case.
What also isn't clear from their website is what ports require TWICs. Around here, I can think of three ports, Bangor, Bucksport and Searsport. Bangor and Bucksport are nothing but tank farms and racks. Searsport handles bulk carriers and containers as well as fuel. Only Bangor is listed. Maybe the other two are administratively viewed as part of the Port of Bangor??? I don't know. I can't imagine them being excluded.
If nothing else, I'd say the rollout is kind of a half-baked mess, about the same as how the Feds rolled out the secure ID requirements on the states for drivers' licenses.
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