Welcome to H.O. Bouchard`s Annual Christmas Banquet

Comstock Woodlands
Steve Whitcomb
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1971 Graduate of the University of Maine
H.E.Sargent from 1971 to 1977
H.O.Bouchard from 1977 to the Present
I have spent 42 years in transportation. Some of
it building roads. And some of it consuming
them.
• Serving the highway construction is still a very
significant part of H.O.Bouchard’s business.
H.O.Bouchard
• A 100 truck Contract Carrier based in Hampden.
• Established by Harold Bouchard in 1958.
• Harold Bouchard started out with a dump truck
building roads in the summer and hauling wood
in the winter.
• The company was built on finding cost-effective
transportation solutions.
Here is a quick Cross section of
H.O.Bouchard operations.
Comstock Woodlands
• A company founded by H.O.Bouchard in 1991 to
operate the Great Northern Paper Company
camps .
Golden Road 1975
Golden Road 1985
On/Off-Highway 2013
The next load may be on highway
to Quebec
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Or, the next load may be on
highway in Maine.
The original subject was to be the
cost of grading woods road.
I do not know the costs of grading
woods roads.
• I can explain to you the costs of NOT grading woods
roads!
• Harold Bouchard and I met in 1971 when I was a grade
foreman for H.E.Sargent and he had dump trucks.
• Herb Sargent would NEVER run his fleet of trucks over a
rough haul road!
• Harold and I both learned under his tutelage that a
grader was cheaper to run than trucks. I firmly believe
that to this day.
So let’s talk!
• How many people in here will agree that wood
hauling is exempt from Hours-of-Service?
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What authority does Federal Motor Carrier have.
Who can regulate our trucks?
Why do you think that?
Does Maine have an exemption?
Did the FMCSA grant it?
How many in here have read it?
100 Air-Mile Exemption
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MAINE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
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BUREAU OF THE MAINE STATE POLICE
Chapter 4: MAINE MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY REGULATION (Cite as 16-222
CMR c. 4)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
§ 1. Definitions
§ 2. Applicability
§ 3. Adoption and Incorporation by Reference of Federal Regulations, without State
Amendments
§ 4. Adoption and Incorporation by Reference of Federal Regulations, with State
Amendments
§ 5. Adoption and Incorporation by Reference of Additional Federal Regulations
§ 6. Qualifications to Enforce this Chapter
§ 7. Source of Federal Regulations
§ 8. Severability
APPLICABILITY
This regulation applies to any interstate or intrastate common, contract, and private
motor carrier that transports passengers or property in Maine.
§ 2.
§ 3. ADOPTION AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF FEDERAL
REGULATIONS, WITHOUT STATE AMENDMENTS
Pursuant to 29-A M.R.S.A. §555, sub-§2, the Bureau of the Maine State Police hereby
adopts and incorporates by reference into this Chapter, without State amendments:
•Title 49 Parts 40, 382, 390, 392, 393, 396, and Appendices to Subchapter B, of the
Code of Federal Regulations, as amended and as of February 2011.
§ 4. ADOPTION AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF FEDERAL
REGULATIONS, WITH STATE AMENDMENTS
Pursuant to 29-A M.R.S.A. §555, sub-§2, the Bureau of the Maine State
Police hereby adopts and incorporates by reference into this Chapter (1) Title
49 Parts 383, 391, and 395, and Appendices to Subchapter B, of the Code of
Federal Regulations, as amended and as of February 2011, with the following
State amendments, and (2) Title 49, Section 391.41(b)(12)(i) as amended
and as of February 2012, with the following State amendments:
A.Hazardous Materials
1. There are no exemptions for motor carriers, vehicles, or drivers
transporting hazardous materials of a type or quantity that requires the
vehicle to be marked or placarded in accordance with 49 CFR, Subchapter C,
Pt. 172.
D. As to 49 CFR Pt. 395, the following amendments are
made:
1. Intrastate motor carriers, vehicles, and drivers to
which this Chapter applies that operate less than 100 air
miles from their regular place of business are exempt
from 49 CFR Pt. 395.
So, what does this mean?
• Good question.
• The regulations do not mention wood.
• They were not designed for being in and out of
interstate commerce.
• The CARRIER is the one exempt.
• We are an InTERstate carrier.
What has this got to do with
grading roads?
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Time cost money.
A modern tractor is now $125,000 +++.
A trailer is $40,000.
2 tractor/trailers cost more than one grader.
Each one will burn twice the fuel.
The trucks/trailers from 1975 were made of cast
iron!
• Our modern ones MUST be very light.
The game is not the same
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We MUST haul payload and not iron.
The competitive truck now must be very light.
The driver’s time must be respected!
100 gallons of fuel is $400.
A good driver will need a minimum of $200 plus
benefits.
• That truck had better be earning $1,000/day
and it had better be getting wood to the mill!
What does this have to do with a grader?
• The approach to every bridge is rough.
• Every bridge is in the lowest spot (that’s where the
brooks are!)
• Every time this huge tonnage slows down, fuel burn and
time wasted goes up.
• The maintenance costs on a woods truck on rough roads
is enormous compared to operating on pavement.
• The Stud Mill road will never be I-95, but it could always
stand improvement.
Let’s try this another way
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We are loading wood 100 miles from the mill.
The truck can average 40 mph.
It takes 5 hours of driving to do the round.
It takes an hour to load and 1 to unload.
2 trips take 14 hours (the maximum allowed)
The crane moves to a new lot, 10 miles further
away. This is 40 miles in 2 trips.
• What do we do now????????
When there is a defect in road
maintenance, logistics or driving!
• Are we going too fast to make the mill?
• Did the grader not scarify enough?
• This is what makes a grader look cheaper all the
time.
Questions?
Answers?
Comments?
Discussion?