THATS PUBLISHES TRANSPORTATION REGS GUIDEBOOK

RELEASE: June 17, 2005

CONTACT: Neil Ward (301/838-9385)
nward@forestresources.org

Rockville, MD – The National Timber Harvesting and Transportation Safety (THATS) Foundation has published a 29-page booklet explaining the basic provisions of federal transportation regulations, as they affect the trucking of forest products.

The Transportation Regulations Booklet for the Forest Products Industry presents information on today’s regulatory web in a simple question-and-answer format. The Booklet provides compliance information about hiring drivers, equipping the vehicle itself, hazardous materials, employer responsibilities, hours-of-service rules, and truck inspections. It is directed to trucking and logging contractors, drivers, and mill transportation people.

“The log truck is the most visible part of the forest industry, and for that reason it has drawn the special attention of federal regulators,” stated the Forest Resources Association’s Director of Forestry Programs, Steve Jarvis. “Fostering strict compliance with this body of regulations is not only a matter of public safety but business survival.”

FRA’s Southwide Safety Committee, led by the North Carolina Forestry Association’s Roger Pyle, developed the booklet with a grant from THATS.

Single copies of the Transportation Regulations Booklet for the Forest Products Industry (05-A-3) are available to FRA members @ $20.00 per copy, or $10.00 per copy for orders of 10 Booklets or more. Prices are double for non-members. Please order from Forest Resources Association Inc., 600 Jefferson Plaza, Suite 350, Rockville, Maryland 20852, enclosing payment with order (checks payable to “FRA”); or phone in a credit card order to 301/838-9385.

The Forest Resources Association Inc., which serves as the secretariat of THATS, is a nonprofit trade association concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of forest products and their transport from woods to mill. FRA represents wood consumers, independent logging contractors, and wood dealers, as well as businesses providing products and services to the forest resource-based industries.

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