1/13/04-A bill that would force the owner or leaser of an intermodal chassis to be responsible for the proper maintenance of the equipment has died.
Under A3490, ports in the state that load and unload oceangoing vessels would be required to check every intermodal chassis, the trailers that carry intermodal freight containers, before they leave a port.
The bill called for inspections that would check brakes, suspension, tires and wheels, connecting devices, lights, and electrical system. Inspectors would be required to place a tamper-proof green tag on chassis with no defects and a red tag on chassis with defects. Any chassis provider found to have violated this order would be fined $500.
Red-tagged chassis could not be released to a driver until repairs were made. The measure also allowed a driver to request that a chassis be reinspected if he or she thought it was unsafe.
It was in the Assembly Transportation Committee when the session ended Jan. 12.

9/26/03-An Assembly bill would force the owner or leaser of an intermodal chassis to be responsible for the proper maintenance of the equipment.
Under AB3490, sponsored by Assemblyman John Wisniewski, D-Middlesex, ports in the state that load and unload oceangoing vessels would be required to check every intermodal chassis, the trailers that carry intermodal freight containers, before they leave a port.
The bill calls for inspections that would check brakes, suspension, tires and wheels, connecting devices, lights, and electrical system. Inspectors would be required to place a tamper-proof green tag on chassis with no defects and a red tag on chassis with defects. Any chassis provider found to have violated this order would be fined $500.
Red-tagged chassis could not be released to a driver until repairs were made. The measure also would allow a driver to request that a chassis be reinspected if he or she thought it was unsafe.
It is in the Assembly Transportation Committee. For bill status, call (609) 292-4840. In New Jersey, call 1-800-792-8630.