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Oregon "Truck Green Light Program" |
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If you're a trucker in Oregon and
looking for ways to save money on fuel the State of Oregon
has a "Green Light" program that can help you.
The Oregon Green Light
program started in 1999 and continues to date.
The program enable
truckers, who meet certain requirements, to bypass the weigh
stations and thus save fuel cost incurred while navigating
through weigh stations.
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According to the Oregon Department of Transportation
operating a heavy truck is estimated to cost $1.96 per
minute and stopping at a weigh station can take five
minutes. As of March 12, the Green Light program had weighed
in-motion and precleared trucks 15,106,226 times in the past
14 years. On that basis, truckers have so far saved 1.2
million hours of travel time and $148 million in operating
costs as they rolled on past weigh stations |
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A motor carrier's truck qualifies
for a Green Light transponder if it has permanent Oregon
registration credentials, it has three axles or more in
combination with a minimum registered GVW of 34,001 pounds,
it visits Green Light sites an average of at least once per
month, and the carrier does not have an unsatisfactory
safety fitness rating. |
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The majority of the trucking community in this country is
made up of small businesses, as 93 percent of all carriers
have 20 or fewer trucks in their fleet and 78 percent of
carriers have
fleets of just six or fewer trucks. |
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Sources:
State of Oregon Department of Transportation
By
Jack River
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