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Worley & Obetz, a company selling propane and other fuels, announced the closing of its Manheim-based business operations, without any prior notice on Monday, June 4, 2018. Closure of Worley & Obetz will leave a number of commercial and residential customers in the greater Lancaster-Lebanon area without their usual propane distributor. If you are impacted by the closure, please be aware that there are many propane distributors ready and available to service your propane needs in the same area. Please click ‘Propane Retailers’ on our PAPGA website for distributors in your area.
Author: Shelby Bell
2018 Propane Days
Register Today for Propane Days 2018!
Does propane being included in OSHA’s crane rule seem ridiculous? Or ever wondered why we can’t ship American propane from one US port to another because of the Jones Act? Or why doesn’t Congress consistently pass tax credits for alternative fuels like propane? If you say “Yes!” to any of these questions, then we need you at Propane Days!
Register today for Propane Days 2018, and join hundreds of your colleagues in Washington, DC, on June 5-6 to educate legislators about propane and their need to take action for our industry. Early bird registration of $99 is available until May 14, then the price increases to $149.
And be sure to take advantage of special room rates at our host hotel, the Renaissance Washington Downtown Hotel. (If you have difficulty reserving a room online, call 800-468-3571 and request the National Propane Gas Association rate.) The group rate is available until May 14 or until the block is sold out.
Also register today for one of NPGA’s webinars to get informed on the three big issues we’ll be talking about during our Capitol Hill visits! Each webinar will be held regularly on Thursdays at 3 p.m. Eastern.
Here’s the schedule and registration links:
May 10 – Exempting Propane Shipments from the Jones Act
May 17 – Extending Tax Credits for Propane
May 24 – Crane Rule
May 31 — Jones Act/Tax Extenders (second chance if you miss May 10 or May 17)
For more information, including a schedule of events, visit the Propane Days 2018 website or contact NPGA’s Lesley Garland at lgarland@npga.org.
FMCSA Extends Hours of Service Waiver until February 28, 2018
The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration has extended the regional hours of service waiver for the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southern Service Centers effective immediately through the duration of the emergency or February 11, 2018 (whichever occurs first).
Extension of Winter Storms Declaration 2-6-2018
Please note the waiver addresses questions on record keeping (ELD use) during the emergency by calling for use of paper record of duty status (RODS) and maintaining a copy of the emergency declaration.
The states covered in this Declaration are: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, DC, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
FMCSA Extends Hours of Service Waiver until February 11, 2018
The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration has extended the regional hours of service waiver for the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southern Service Centers effective immediately through the duration of the emergency or February 11, 2018 (whichever occurs first).
Extension of Regional Declaration of Emergency – Winter Storms – 1-24-20…
Please note the waiver addresses questions on recordkeeping (ELD use) during the emergency by calling for use of paper record of duty status (RODS) and maintaining a copy of the emergency declaration.
The states covered in this Declaration are: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, DC, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
FMCSA Extends Hours of Service Waiver until January 28, 2018
The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration has extended the regional hours of service waiver for the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southern Service Centers effective immediately through the duration of the emergency or January 28, 2018 (whichever occurs first).
Extension of Regional Declaration of Emergency 1.11.18
The states covered in this Declaration are: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, DC, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Please note this Declaration is not an exemption from the controlled substances and alcohol use and testing requirements, the commercial driver’s license requirements, the financial responsibility (insurance) requirements, the hazardous material regulations, applicable size and weight requirements or any other portion of the regulations not authorized pursuant to 49 CFR 390.23.