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Alabama Rolls Out Web Portal for Truckers |
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January 23, 2008
MONTGOMERY, Ala., January 23, 2008 – The
state’s Information Services Division (ISD), a division of the State
Department of Finance, announced the roll out of a new web portal for
truckers this morning. The site, found at www.trucking.alabama.gov,
provides a single-source, one-stop portal for truckers in or passing
through Alabama.
“Alabama’s
state troopers welcome the development of this new portal as a means of
quickly and reliably communicating information vital to commercial
drivers, which contributes overall to highway and traffic safety in our
state,” said Col. J. Christopher Murphy, director of the Alabama
Department of Public Safety.
The portal is geared toward
providing everything from online payments of trip and fuel permits to
safety issues, road rules and regulations and Alabama maps identifying
welcome centers, rest areas, emergency road closures and much more.
“Trucking
is integral to all facets of the Alabama economy,” said the state’s
chief information officer Jim Burns. “We want to make traveling in and
dealing with Alabama as convenient as possible for truckers so that
they can transport goods without undue delays or hardship. The trucking
portal provides everything needed in a convenient, easy-to-use
location, and it shows our appreciation for the vital contributions to
Alabama that are made by the trucking community.”
Development
of the portal was cost-free to the state and to Alabama’s taxpayers,
thanks to the state’s contract with Alabama Interactive. Sloane Wright,
director of Alabama Interactive, stated, “Truck drivers are a very
technology-savvy segment of our population and using the Internet is
nothing new for many of them. As a result, a web site dedicated to
trucking makes perfectly good sense and we are honored to be a part of
this project.”
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