{"id":2313,"date":"2011-05-25T03:12:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T03:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2011-05-25T03:12:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T03:12:06","slug":"missouri-urges-truckers-to-bypass-joplin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/missouri-urges-truckers-to-bypass-joplin\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri urges truckers to bypass Joplin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri is asking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">truckers<\/a> to not exit Interstate 44 in Joplin, except for exit 4\u2019s fueling plazas, but state officials are expediting trucking permits and waiving fees following the city\u2019s deadly tornado.<\/p>\n<p>The Missouri Department of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Transportation<\/a> issued an update Tuesday, May 24, after the May 22 tornado that resulted in 117 fatalities in Joplin. Fuel is not available at I-44 exit 11 and other truck services are unavailable in the Joplin area.<\/p>\n<p>MDOT said certain trucking permits will be issued free and requests will receive priority service around the clock. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Carriers <\/a>entering the area with heavier, wider or longer than normally allowed must request an oversize\/overweight permit. Out-of-state carriers that do not hold authority to operate in Missouri can request registration and <a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/diesel-tumbles-6-4-cents\/\">fuel<\/a> permits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri is asking truckers to not exit Interstate 44 in Joplin, except for exit 4\u2019s fueling plazas, but state officials are expediting trucking permits and waiving fees following the city\u2019s deadly tornado. The Missouri Department of Transportation issued an update Tuesday, May 24, after the May 22 tornado that resulted in 117 fatalities in Joplin. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}