Community seeks idling restrictions in North Bend, WA

[Maria]

Truckers who live around North Bend, WA, say they can’t remember a time when the local truck stop, known as “truck town,” wasn’t there.

As the community around North Bend has expanded, some city officials and residents have taken issue with “public health concerns” regarding the trucks that park and fuel at the TravelCenters of America.

Some officials and residents have raised complaints about air quality from idling trucks and noise pollution.

However, OOIDA member Joyce Hibma of North Bend, says they are missing the “bigger picture.”

“It seems the community is more concerned about air quality and noise pollution than the safety of the drivers,” Hibma told Land Line. “I kind of feel like our town is a few years behind on this because so many of the trucks are cleaner-burning. They aren’t polluting the air.”

OOIDA sent out a Call to Action to members who live in the North Bend area to attend the North Bend Planning Commission meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26.

One of their agenda items is to discuss the creation of a task force to review idling of trucks. One of the commissioners, Gary Fancher, has proposed adding idling guidelines. His proposal includes banning trucks from idling for more than five minutes.

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[Racer X 69]

This is crazy. There are no residences within a half mile of that truckstop.

[Rubber Duck]

There should be some kind of a "We were here first" clause.

The Petro in Monee, IL had the same problem. The truck stop has been there forever, but a few years ago, some condo's were built next to it. The new residents KNEW they were moving in next to a truck stop, but they moved in anyway and the first thing they did was start whining about the noise from the trucks idling.