Posted by ScottyHOMEy on April 27, 2009 at 14:02:45 from (70.105.254.131):
In Reply to: Re: CDL Question posted by Doug in IL on April 27, 2009 at 13:31:37:
And that's just where things get screwed up. The elevator on the river, as long as it's witnin your state shouldn't have any different requirements vis a vis DOT regs. What it does require now (this just came up last winter) is a TWIC, Transportation Worker's Identification Card. With one, you can drive right into a port facility, such as a riverside grain elevator. Without one, you'll have to be escorted all the time you are inside such a facility, and a lot of owners are refusing to pay to have people just to escort folks without cards.
It's a Homeland Security requirement, intended to keep terrorists from hijacking barges and poisoning grain at the terminals. They can do that (at least the poisoning part) much more easily at elevators that aren't on navigable waterways. Beisdes, how do you hijack a barge on a river?
It's been a real pain in the neck up here in Maine where most of our fuel comes in by water. Even the guys who drive fuel oil delivery trucks have had to go get them, as they frequently fill their trucks at the distributor's racks along the river. All the more so, because the security check differs not one whit from the check that goes along with having a hazmat endorsement on your CDL, but the HME will not take the place of a TWIC. All administered by the same agency. It's lunatic bureaucracy at it finest.
And what the trooper advised you is just one more example of having so many regs that no-one knows what's actually required anymore. What with the strip-searches at the airports, and all the identification cards that are starting to be required, and having to give everything but blood to even get a driver's license, I some days wonder if the 9/11 terrorists didn't accomplish a lot more than they could ever have hoped for in changing our way of life, and our regulators and lawmakers are just playing into their hands.
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