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‘Jason’s Law’ part of transportation funding bill
November 9, 2011
| by: Jill Dunn
Expanded truck parking is part of a two-year transportation funding bill that was passed out of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee.
The committee approved the $109 billion Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act and sent it to the full Senate, where it will be combined with other committee bills. The House Transportation and Infrastructure committee is working on a six-year transportation measure.
EPW committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) introduced the 600-page bill, S.1813, on Nov. 4, which contains a section titled “Jason’s Law.”
The title refers to New York trucker Jason Rivenburg, murdered in 2009 during an attempted robbery while parked at an abandoned service station. Boxer’s bill lists potential funding sources to improve parking for truckers using the National Highway System. Projects could include new rest areas or opening existing facilities to truckers, such as inspection and weigh stations and park-and-ride facilities.
Since 2010, the House and Senate have considered Jason’s Law bills that would have created a grant program to mitigate the truck parking shortage.
Boxer has said the bill reauthorizes the federal-aid highway program at the Congressional Budget Office’s baseline level, equal to current funding levels plus inflation. It consolidates the number of federal transportation programs by two-thirds and eliminates earmarks, she said.
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the driver is the regulator / governor of his or her truck. noone wants to go down to mexico so you just gave away about 8% of our loads which weren’t easy to get in the first place, you must regulate fuel costs at the pump, and you really need to put back those 2 drive hours that obama just took away. and also, i think it’s important for truckers to carry concealed.
i guess Jason would probably still be alive if he had had a 45 tucked under his shirt, hmm?
Jason could have a 45 but his home state wouldn’t honor other states ccw permits!It would be great to scrap the ccw permit system all together since there is a 2nd Amendment to keep and bear arms and the STATES just honor that part and no confuson whats so ever!YES,Jason would be alive if he did not have to be DISARMED BY OUR SO-CALLED CARING FEDERAL GOV’T!
I carry a 45 every where i go and been to ccw class and know the do’s and don’t's of deadly force and when to use deadly force.I have been carrying for almost 16 yrs and still have a ccw permit.Alot of STATES are starting to looking into LEGSILATION to scrap the CCW PERMITS SYSTEM and get back to the 2nd AMENDMENT RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS!To the LADY TRUCKERS out there on the ROADS,TASERS,MACE,PEPPER SPRAY are some what DETER some BADGUYS,but a FIREARM is a way more a deterrent any day,don’t let no one tell you different especially the COMPANY they are looking out 4 themselves from being SUED from the crimminal or their family.Many of those working in the BIG TRUCKING CO.’S have never been in a TRUCK or DRIVEN ONE for a living and experience a life and death situation out on the road!WE are the ones that driving these 18 wheelers out here on a daily basis and see what goes on and being cut-off in these BIG MAJOR CITIES by 4 wheelers all the time,sometimes by other 18 wheelers too!