University Daily Kansan, February 1, 1983
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Association started their strike at midnight Sunday. Others were planning to go out midnight
"I want to see the president of the United States get out there on 295 and get down on his hands and knees and say, 'Please, Mr.rucker, I'll be stripped and striking trucker Ede Mehan of Vineland, N.J.'
The approximately 100,000 independent truckers were protesting the Reagan administration's Surface Transportation Act of 1982, which imposes a 5-cent per gallon hike in fuel taxes as of April 1 and increases highway user fees in 1984 and 1985.
THE USER FEES impose the biggest vehicle-use taxes on heavier trucks because
Trucking officials estimated there were approximately 350,000 big trucks operating in
the country, with the majority of the drivers belonging to the Teammates union.
Teamsters hire out to drive trucks belonging to trucking companies while independents drive their own tractors and haul trailers for a fee—carrying the bulk of the nation's fresh fruits and vegetables.
The independents say they face financial ruin if Congress (falls to roll back the tax hikes).
Mike Parkhurst, Independent Truckers Association president, estimated 50,000 to 75,000 truckers had pulled off the roads yesterday. But police in several states reported truck traffic was still moving briskly.
There is no way we will reduce it below the 73
percent (of the cost of highway damage) they are going to pay now . . . we would like to increase it," he said.
increased the truckers were arrested near Fort Myers, Fla., when they allegedly tried to block the entrance to a rock pit. Lee County sheriff's Sgt. Bernard Moore said the four truckers were among 12 who were nearby. They were charged with obstruction of justice and released on bond.
obstruction to the spokesman for Teamsters Joint Council 40 in Western Pennsylvania, said the union sent unarmed "SWAT teams" out on the roads to protect members from violence.
Truckers
"WE DISPATCHED about 90 people to see that our trucks continue to run," he said. The Teamsmasters sympathize with the strike, but they cannot join it without breaking their contracts, he said.
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Patrol, which increased patrols on its main highways.
nighways:
"RIGHT NOW I don't foresee any problems," he said. "I think we're just going to have to wait and see what happens."
Danny Williams, an independent trucker from Topeka, said if most independents joined the strike, the impact could be painful. Independent haulers transport most of the nation's fresh food and much of its household goods.
and which of the above is the Independent Truckers Association says its members transport 90 percent of the fresh produce now carried by truck
produce now carried by a tractor. Chris Rickmers, an employee at Pester Gas Co., Route 3, said he had not seen any change in truck traffic coming through Lawrence. The gas station is northeast of Lawrence on the Kansas Turnip.
Gary Black, owner of the unionized Lawrence Freight Inc., 1321 N. Third St., said that it was business as usual and that his drivers had not had any problems.
VIOLENCE CONNECTED with the strike has been reported in eight states, but no serious injuries were reported.
Murphy did not know the extent of the driver's injuries.
Steve Murphy, senior vice president of the independent Yellow Freight, Kansas City, Mo., said one of his drivers went to pick up a trailer at a truck stop in Ashtabula, Ohio, and was beaten.
He said a few of Yellow Freight's 16,500 drivers had not shown up for work, but almost every one was working and he was having no trouble finding drivers.
"We're having more problems with the weather than with this strike," he said.
Bob Carter, terminal manager for Hoffman Transfer Inc., Kansas City, Kan., said that he was urging his drivers to travel in groups and to travel during the day.
He said five or six of his 125 drivers had pulled off the road, but there were no other problems.
Paul Waterhouse, of Riss International Inc., Kansas City, Mo., which contracts with 1,000 independent truckers, said many of his younger drivers were afraid to take shipments to the East.
"Many of the old timers will probably run in daylight," he said. "They've seen it all before."
Trucker's strikes in 1974 and 1979 against the price and availability of fuel resulted in two deaths. Another strike in 1982 against trucking deregulation was widely ignored.
"It's just not clear what's going to happen," Waterhouse said. "It would be sad to see blood shed over something like this, though."
"IVE GOT contracts to fill," he said, "I'm not having problems finding drivers to fill them."
Mervin Sinclair, owner of the Gunsmoke Track Stop in Dodge City, said some independent truckers told him last night that they would quit. Most of the independent truckers he sees are cattle haulers, he said.
SOME TRUCKERS told Sinclair they feared they would be the victims of violence if they did not participate in the strike.
County not to acquire land for industrial park
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
Commissioners Robert Neis, Beverly Bradley and Nancy Hiebert said the main factors involved in their decision were drainage and traffic safety problems that would be caused by an industrial park on the proposed annexation site, which is one and a half miles north of the Lawrence Municipal Airport along U.S. Highway 59.
In a position paper, the commission said that there was already a drainage problem in North Lawrence and that if the industrial park contributed to any run-off in the area the results could be catastrophic.
The Douglas County Commission yesterday voted unanimously against annexing 275 acres of land north of Lawrence for use as an industrial park.
their interests.
The developers said that measures would be taken to insure that all water was retained on the site, but the commission said that there should be no margin for error.
The commission also said that the increased traffic on U.S. Highway 59 and a proposed railroad crossing across the highway would create traffic safety problems that would ultimately create a need for additional traffic lanes.
THREE LOCAL MEN, Jack Arensberg,
Howard Heck and Terry Sutcliffe, wanted to
develop the site as an industrial park.
THE COMMISSION ALSO said it wanted to preserve the 275 acres of prime agricultural land that the park would take up.
Chairman Neis said he was concerned about putting an industrial park in a flood plain.
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everything I had." Neis said, "I'm not going to put an industrial park in a flood plain."
Commissioner Hiebert said that her main concerns were drainage problems, traffic safety and the cost to the taxpayer of making any required improvements.
The position paper stated that improvements in the drainage system would be expensive and questioned to what extent the city and municipality would be willing and able to cost the costs.
MARTIN DICKINSON, president of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, which last year conducted a search for possible industrial park sites, told the commission that he had found four buildings in industrial park sites further be rejected by the commission.
He said that the drainage and flood plain arguments used against the proposed annexation could be used for all land north of the Kansas River.
Kansas City "It's very hard to believe that any proposal for industrial annexation would be approved." Dickinson said.
proved. Dickinson said that Lawrence needed new industry to supply jobs for the young people of Lawrence.
The county commission had been asked by the Lawrence City Commission to give its opinion on the proposed industrial park. The city needed the county's approval because the annexation site does not border the Lawrence city limits.
pain.
"I went through the flood of 1951 and lost
The city-county planning commission recommended that the annexation be approved, but the planning commission is only an advisory body.
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