Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 10th, 2007
An angry group of St. Clair County residents who live on 32 Mile Road, just outside of the Macomb County line, have petitioned to stop the Canadian truck traffic that roars past their homes on the way to the Pine Tree Acres landfill.
The Canadian caravan, up to 300 trucks per day, used to take a route down I-94 to 26 Mile Road. But for the past two months they’ve been exiting at 32 Mile Road, also known as Division Road, causing 12 hours of daily nuisance for the residents of Casco and Columbus townships.
“We just want the trucks to go back on the route they were using before,” said Bill Zeeman, who started the petition drive. “We’re not out to shut down the garbage dump, as if we could do that.”
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
I think the city engineering department needs a field trip to any northern city in Canada to find out how to clear snow.
It is unbelievable to see the main high volume roads that are steeply sloped and not plowed, areas where thousands of people live like Promontory with only two roads up and down and no plow in sight for hours on end.
Most cities have a fleet of on-call auxiliary dump trucks that have a hydraulic plow on the front and a spreader on the back.
Any other time the trucks are used as dump trucks until the snows arrive.
Spreading salt is not enough. A 50/50 blend of salt and sand or calcium chloride works better and reduces the waterways salt pollution.
I hope today’s mess (December 3) does not freeze before they plow it or you will see a paralyzed city .
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
A two vehicle rear-end collision occurred just after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, on Brick Kiln Road in front of the Falmouth PAL building. The crash resulted in one person being transported to the hospital.
An Acura coupe was stopped for a school bus when it was struck from behind by a Ford Expedition.
The young female driver of the Expedition was placed in a neck brace and on a backboard and transported to Falmouth Hospital by Falmouth Fire/Rescue with what appeared to be minor neck injuries.
The male driver of the Acura stated he was uninjured. Both vehicles had to be removed from the scene by flatbed trucks. The Falmouth Police Department and DNR officers were able to keep traffic moving through the crash scene. Traffic was only slowed for a short time.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
This was the scene (above) on Shoot Flying Hill Rd and Knotty Pine Ln in Centerville when a jeep collided with a box truck at 11 a.m. Tuesday. One person in the Jeep was taken to CCH by Comm rescue with minor injuries. The road was tied up for 45 minutes. Barnstable Police are investigating reports the Jeep veered out of its lane forcing the Spencer Hallett Heating and Plumbing truck off the road.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales of the Port of Cebu said they seizedu Friday three containers of trucks and tires estimated to be worth P6-Million.
The first container, consigned to Hoc Kuantat Trading, arrived in the Port of Cebu last October 25.
Already alerted by customs OCOM Visayas-Mindanao operatives, the shipment was swiftly subjected to x-ray scanning, which confirmed the suspicion that the container was misdeclared.
Cebu Collector Ricardo Belmonte said the said shipment is considered abandoned and forfeiture proceedings would follow, in favor of the government since the consignee did not file for entry before the thirty day-grace period lapsed.
The second container was consigned to Musashi International Trading Corporation and was declared their shipment as “used truck replacement parts.”
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Truro Police were literally just finishing up a reconstruction project from the fatal crash on November 9th when they had to rush to the scene of yet another horrific crash. Sometime after Tuesday, a Toyota Camry apparently crossed the center line on Route 6 just south of Shore Road (Route 6A) and collided head-on with a 10-wheel dump truck. Rescuers called for a Medflight but it was grounded by bad weather so the car driver 64-year old Charles W. Judge of Wellfleet, who had to be extricated using the Jaws of Life, was rushed by ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital and later flown to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The truck driver 77-year old George Morris of North Truro was not injured.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
“When a truck unloads its garbage, it sounds like a battle is going on in the wadi,” says Umm-Ahmed Musalah. And she knows whereof she speaks: Her house is located right at the entrance to a dump in the Palestinian village of Na’alin, about three kilometers north of Modi’in. In the two years since the site began operating, a big mound of garbage has accumulated on top of the wadi, and its outer edges are steadily encroaching on the vegetable garden and small orchard behind the house. Some of the trees have already dried out.
Even as she speaks, another truck dumps its load - construction waste this time - with a thundering noise, just two or three hundred meters from Musalah’s garden. A cloud of dust rises skyward, momentarily obscuring the tile roofs of the Hashmonaim settlement on the nearby ridge. In the course of about two hours on the afternoon of Monday, November 19, eight trucks added their loads to the mountain of garbage.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
For the second time this week a pedestrian has been struck by a vehicle in Hyannis. Rescuers were called to a rainy scene on Route 132 by Cooke’s Seafood just after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday where a person had been struck by an Isuzu Rodeo. The victim was taken to Cape Cod Hospital by Hyannis rescue with what were believed to be non-life threatening injuries. The woman driving the SUV stayed at the scene. Barnstable police are investigating the incident. At right police check for evidence. A piece of the vehicle was on the ground (inset). A woman struck by a car on Main Street early Sunday is still in critical condition.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
The dump truck that slammed into the side of the West Branch bridge over Interstate 80 prompted the state to move a routine bridge overhaul up by four years.
The dump truck hit the bridge Nov. 12, leaving a 35-foot crack in the first concrete truss and an estimated $100,000 in damage. City Administrator Kyle Soukup last week told the West Branch City Council that the Iowa Department of Transportation on Nov. 19 informed him of its change of plans.
Soukup said the DOT scheduled the bridge for a complete removal and repair, known as a “redeck,” in 2012 and that has been moved up by as early as next summer.
Despite the damage, the bridge is considered safe, though Soukup said then that the DOT is “worried about the soundness of its structure.”
He said Monday that people should not be worried about driving over or under the bridge.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Designer and manufacturer of mobile vehicles to the mining and construction industry Engineering Top Tech, is supplying equipment for use in coalmines, to the main mobile equipment supplier to the Goedgevonden project, Barloworld Equipment.
The value of the equipment supply contracts, awarded in August, amounts to about R10-million.
The company will supply Barloworld with two 85 000-l water tankers for CAT 777F dump trucks, one combination tank that will carry 6 000 l of water and 28 000 l of diesel, for a CAT 740 articulated dump truck (ADT), and is carrying out a lube and service truck conversion on a CAT 740 ADT.
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