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ATRI updates listing of state, local idling regulations

ARLINGTON, VA — The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has updated the listing of state and local idling regulations found on its Web site www.atri-online.org .

The updated listing is provided in two forms, a cab card, which can be carried in the glove box of a truck, and the online compendium which provides links to individual regulations.

The link to the regulation forms is on the left side of the Web site.

The current update includes changes to idling laws in Missouri, enactment of limits in several Texas cities and counties, and a more stringent limit adjacent to public schools in New York City.  The specific updates are:

Reducing the idling limit in the City of St. Louis from 10 minutes to five minutes and adding several operational exemptions. Establishing a five-minute idling limit in the Missouri counties of Clay, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Platte, St. Charles and St. Louis. Adopting the state’s five-minute idling limit from April through October in several areas of Texas, including the cities of Arlington, Benbrook, Celina, Colleyville, Dallas, Euless, Georgetown, Hurst, Hutto, Keene, Lake Worth, Lancaster, Little Elm, Luling, Mabank, McKinney, Mesquite, North Richland Hills, Pecan Hill, University Park, Westlake and the counties of Collin, Kaufman and Tarrant. Enacting a one-minute idling limit adjacent to public schools in New York City.
In addition to these updates, the listing provides information on new idling regulations that are, or will soon be, in effect in Florida, Maine, Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

ATRI continues to monitor the development of idling regulations across the country and maintains the compendium and cab card as a free service to help trucking companies and truck drivers comply with the increasing number of state and local idling regulations, the organization said.

ATRI is the trucking industry’s 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research organization.

 It is engaged in critical research relating to freight transportation’s essential role in maintaining a safe, secure and efficient transportation system.

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