The Long Combination Vehicle (LCV): Legalized Weapons on Our Highways

A very knowledgeable Canadian trucker speaks out in this video about the dangers of Long Combination Vehicles on public highways. Kinross is using 95-foot long vehicles to haul ore on our public highways. All of the safety issues described in this video apply to these...
Hearing for SB218 scheduled

Hearing for SB218 scheduled

Senate Bill 218, the bill that aims to establish a vehicle weight limit on Alaska roads, is set to be heard by the Senate Transportation Committee Thursday, March 14, 2024, beginning at 1:30PM. This hearing will give all interested parties the opportunity to voice...
Senate Bill 218 – “An Act relating to vehicle weight limits”

Senate Bill 218 – “An Act relating to vehicle weight limits”

Alaska is the only state or province in North America that doesn’t have an upper limit on how much general freight trucks can weigh on the highways. The only factors that limit weight are the maximum load permissible per tire and axle and the total weight that...
Vehicle weight limit bills introduced in Alaska legislature

Vehicle weight limit bills introduced in Alaska legislature

Representative Ashley Carrick (House District 35) recently introduced House Bill 305 “An Act relating to vehicle weight limits and providing for an effective date”. Senator Scott Kowasaki (Senate District P) introduced the companion bill, SB218, in the...
Corporate Fascism in Alaska

Corporate Fascism in Alaska

By David Ray Cornberg, Ph.D. (Reprinted with permission of author) Corporate fascism happens when corporations, domestic and foreign, buy governments and require them to do the bidding of the corporation regardless of the consequences for the government’s citizens and...
Kinross changes ore haul route

Kinross changes ore haul route

In response to the lawsuit filed by the Committee for Safe Communities, lawyers for Peak Gold LLC announced in court papers that there is a change to the route the ore trucks will take through Fairbanks. Instead of using the Mitchell-Peger-Johansen loop to connect the...
DOT Commissioner shuts down future TAC meetings

DOT Commissioner shuts down future TAC meetings

At the end of a long 4-hour TAC meeting yesterday and a quick sidebar in the hallway by meeting organizers, it was announced that this would be the last public TAC meeting. Shelly Wade, the meeting moderator, explained that DOT Commissioner Anderson had ordered the...
UPDATE: In-person option added for TAC meeting

UPDATE: In-person option added for TAC meeting

The next Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting will be held: Date:      November 16, 2023  Time:     9:00am-1:00pm Location:  Key Bank Building, 100 Cushman Street, room 215 Zoom Option: check project website   UPDATE: Late on Wednesday, an in-person...

Interior Delegation meets with constituents

Over 50 Interior residents met with most of the Interior Delegation on October 31, 2023, to present the results of ASAH’s anti-ore haul petition, give updates on where the Corridor Study and state transportation plans are at, outline the known costs to the State...