OOIDA Call to Action – Alabama members
January 22, 2010

Attention: Alabama truckers! Your help could be crucial to getting through the Alabama Senate a bill that is intended to reduce truck idling.

For the third year in a row the state’s House has unanimously approved a bill that would increase the maximum gross vehicle, axle weight limits for large trucks equipped with idle-reduction technology. Trucks equipped with auxiliary power units would be authorized to weigh up to an additional 400 pounds. The bill is HB127.

However, the legislation has yet to clear the Senate. The past two years it never got a floor vote before the session ended. HB127 now is in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Your help is needed to explain to Senators why the bill should be approved in swift fashion. You are encouraged to contact Senate Judiciary Chairman Myron Penn, Senate Majority Leader Zeb Little and your Senator and let them know it was the intent of the 2005 U.S. Energy Policy Act to have the exemption signed into law in every state.

Also, the exemption is reasonable because it is another inducement to install an APU onto a truck.