The biggest problem with the tunnels are not truck drivers. The problem is claustrophic ordinary citizens that freeze up when they enter the tunnel. I do not have the explanation for it, but most truck drivers do not seem to have this problem from my experience. My guess is that if they had that problem, they would also have other problems that kept them from driving the truck in the first place.

There is an exception to this. On the west bound side of I-64 at the HRSD, you can not get a 13’6″ empty air ride trailer through the screening (they can clear the tunnel, but for some reason they are turned away ahead of time – I won’t argue with the justification) and some truckers refuse to turn back when told to do so. They are stubborn because they know they can clear 13’6″. When they are finally stopped and turned around at the tunnel entrance, they block up traffic while traffic is stopped to get them turned around.

Tunnel authorities have tried to deal with this problem by putting up prescreening and warning sings ahead of time on Terminal Boulevard. My guess is that the problem is not from freight coming out of the ports. The problem is 13’6″ empty air ride trailers and most of that is not coming from the ports. I think I am correct in stating that none of the container chassises are air ride.

Senator Miller is only trying to strangle commerce and dump his community’s problems in other communities’ streets.

Why should the citizens of Suffolk, Wakefield, and Waverly suffer just because Senator Miller will not support a real solution to the problem?

… Or at least around my Virginia blog-family, anyway…….