{"id":2694,"date":"2011-07-05T02:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T02:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2011-07-05T02:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T02:35:43","slug":"minnesota-shuts-rest-areas-in-budget-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/minnesota-shuts-rest-areas-in-budget-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota shuts rest areas in budget battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Truckers <\/a>cannot park at an estimated 67 Minnesota rest areas after state officials shut the facilities down along with most state services at midnight June 30 until a funding crisis is resolved.<\/p>\n<p>John Hausladen, president of the Minnesota <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Trucking Association<\/a>, said he was unaware of accommodations made for truckers coping with the situation.\u201dTruck drivers are caught between a federal government eager to do its job with hours-of-service and a state unwilling to provide the resources to do the job,\u201d Hausladen said.<\/p>\n<p>The current shutdown is under a Democrat governor and a Republican majority in both legislative branches. In 2005 an eight-day partial shutdown of Minnesota state services was under a Republican governor and a Democrat majority in the state House and Senate, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota State Patrol is fully operational for roadside enforcement, but weigh stations staffing is likely to be minimal, Hausladen said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota DOT posted that permits for oversize and overweight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">trucks <\/a>will be available, but it had halted all highway construction and closed work zones.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/freightbrokerscourse.com\/products\/freight-broker-training\/\">Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration <\/a>spokesman had no comment when asked if truckers would be afforded any leniency from HOS enforcement in Minnesota during the shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truckers cannot park at an estimated 67 Minnesota rest areas after state officials shut the facilities down along with most state services at midnight June 30 until a funding crisis is resolved. John Hausladen, president of the Minnesota Trucking Association, said he was unaware of accommodations made for truckers coping with the situation.\u201dTruck drivers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694"}],"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=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}