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Submitted by Rick on Thu, 08/25/2005 - 3:45pm.
 Now comes the whole story:
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Weyerhaeuser's move next spring to the Port of Olympia will more than double daily log truck traffic on city streets in Olympia. The forest products company will add 75 trucks a day to port traffic and bring the total number of trucks visiting the port each day up to 125. |
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Does anyone know why they tak
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Thu, 08/25/2005 - 5:02pm.There must be a good reason. Is it that they don't want to tie up boaters' with log jams? What about drivers? As a bicyclist, I appreciate most of the truck drivers' concern and awareness of my presence on the road.
But even though truckers are good drivers and generally considerate, having more, with more detritus from shedding bark doesn't appeal to me.
Why don't they float the logs instead of trucking them?
There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing... --Bob Dylan, ``The Times They Are A-Changing''
I think I can address the flo
Submitted by emmettoconnell on Thu, 09/01/2005 - 10:53am.I think I can address the float v. truck issue. The logs you see floating out by West Bay are actually coming into town, most likely going to places like Tumwater Lumber down by the airport. My understanding is that most of those logs come from Canada and are milled in Washington and Oregon.
The logs that Weyerehauser is bringing into Olypmia are coming from Weyco's commercial tree farms in Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties. When Weyco started shutting down their farms up around Seattle and Tacoma, their focus went to SW Washington, so it was just a matter of time before they chose a new port.
Probably the only other place they were considering was Port of Grays Harbor.
I had a fully loaded log truc
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Thu, 09/01/2005 - 11:15pm.Then he proceeded to accelerate and tail-gate me before rudely passing me and attempting to cut me off.