Spill Center Advisor

Volume IX

CONTENTS

Fleet Deploys New On-board
Spill Reporting System

Mandatory E-Manifest
Boosts Border Security

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Fleet Deploys New On-board
Spill Reporting System
by Tom Moses

Pottle’s Transportation of Bangor, Maine, a long-time Spill Center client, has launched an on-board spill reporting system in its fleet of 109 company tractors and 440 trailers. The new system enables a driver to quickly fill out a pre-formatted electronic spill message and transmit it directly from the truck to provide authorities with rapid notification and details of a spill.

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Mandatory E-Manifest
Boosts Border Security
by Tom Moses

The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic truck manifest system now being implemented at land border crossings by the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), promises to improve homeland security while reducing port processing time for carriers and avoiding the need to enter the same data multiple times.

Under ACE, carriers are required to transmit cargo information to CBP before arriving at ports of entry. These E-manifests can be filed using an electronic transponder either by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or via the Internet, using the web-based ACE Secure Data Portal.

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Truck Magazines
Cover Spill Center
by Tom Moses

Spill Center was featured in the August issue of Heavy Duty Trucking magazine in its report “Diesel Spill Threats.” The article relates: “Spill even a few gallons of fuel and you could be facing enormous cleanup costs. It all comes down to being prepared for such an eventuality.” Senior Editor Deborah Lockridge interviewed Spill Center President Tom Moses for the article.

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BRAKE CHECK

Brakes were cited in 56.6% of vehicle Out of Service violations in during Roadcheck 2007, reports the CVSA. Brake problems were present in 29.4% of crashes involving large trucks, US DOT study shows.

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Moses Named to Research Group

Spill Center President Tom Moses has been appointed to an Expert Task Group of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The group, which was formed to recommend ways to improve traffic incident scene management, met in Washington, DC recently to begin laying plans for the project.

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