The Terrace Standard. Wednesday, March 2. 2005 - A11 . LOGGING TRUCKS are carrying legal - and safer - loads in “the area thanks toa voluntary compliance program introduced by the. provincial government.:Govern- -ment employees who introduced the program have won a government award for innovation. That's Bill Sauer from the Northwest Loggers Association which played arole, Ken Mackenzie who looks atter commerical vehicle inspections here and. who is showing the award to Main Logging truck driver Pat Jamieson and transpor- tation ministry official Don Ramsay. 4 Gov’t award given PROVINCIAL. government emplovees here have won a provincial government award for changing the way: they monitor logging truck loads. ° Instead of a system of fines per cent of trucks carrying loads within legal limits, there’s a voluntary program in place and a compliance rate approaching 90 per cent. | The result is safer trips because trucks aren't overloaded and there’s fess wear and tear on- roads caused by heavier vehicles, ‘says transportation ministry official Don Ramsay. He credits commercial vehicle inspector Ken MacKenzie, who is part of the solicitor general’s ministry, for developing the plan. Mills and drivers routinely accepted fines if trucks were found to be overloaded when checked at government weigh scales. “They were really creating the incentive ‘to, drive overloaded,” said MacKenzie of “the acceptance that fines would be levied if caught. * “The key to the change was to convince the mills and truckers that voluntar y compli- “arice was best. said Ramsay. That came-about with changes to insur- ance coverage making policies null and void “fa truck was in an.accident and it was found to be hauling an overweight load. “And with the mills being aware of the ie and only 40 ory overload, that’s called vicarious liability,” said MacKenzie. ¢ ‘ The possibility of losing insurance cov- erige und possible resulting legal action - helped mills and drivers became aware that it was in their best interest to ensure trucks. were not overfouded, he said. MacKenzie also used personal approach- es, asking people how they would react if family members were involved in/an acci- dent caused by an overloaded truck. Also signing up to the program was the Northwest | Loggers Association. “We realized that if we were hauling le- gal, not only would it be safer but it would help with rates,” said association manager Bill Sauer, | That’s because truckers made more trips with legal loads than before when they were carrying too much weight.» “If in a week the trucker was making -40 loads illegally but then was making 50 loads legally, that benefits the trucker,” said Sauer, | » Saucr said having transport ministry of-’. ‘ficials go into log yards to check trucks there © “helped fi find the bad players and récognized the good players.” “Those drivers who established a record of being within legal weights were given stick- ers for their trucks, allowing them to be ex- empted from being checked : all the time. - March 10 10am e t e e 1pm e 2pm e se 3- 5:30pm e Founder's Day March 10, 2005 Official Opening | of the | George Little House Everyone Is Welcome Calendar of Events George Little House Opens = . 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