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Havasu_Dreamin
07-14-2006, 07:40 AM
Just a heads up.....
From the Tri-State News Network (http://www.justsaynews.com/)
All Vehicles Stop For Needles
NEEDLES, CA - Travelers along Interstate 40 heading westbound can now expect delays at the state's inspection station, located just west of the California-Arizona state line, known locally as the I-40 bridge over the Colorado River. The California Department of Agriculture says the Needles location has been singled out for a new pilot project that was recently appropriated by the California legislature. Agency spokesman Jay Van Ryan says the state budgeted over $380,000 for a 12-month study.
Van Ryan says the aim of the pilot program, "is to kind of get a baseline - get a sense of exactly what we are stopping, in terms of threats to agriculture."
The agency's stopping of all vehicles at the Needles station comes after about three years of requiring only larger vehicles - RV's, semi trucks and cargo vans - to pull over for state inspectors. Van Ryan told TSN, "we've just gotten authorization through the budget to do this - just at the one station at Needles."
He explained the station was picked specifically by the agency because of its sharing a border with Arizona and the close proximity to Nevada. Van Ryan said, "it's also a primary spot for some of our 'higher risk' vehicles coming in."
Other factors: I-40 runs through agricultural areas in Texas and as far east as Florida; Van Ryan says I-40 is very well traveled as opposed to the seasonal "and less traveled" routes to the north like I-80, "which runs across Northern Nevada to the California border."

RitcheyRch
07-14-2006, 07:43 AM
Thanks for the info.

MR HARLEY
07-14-2006, 07:47 AM
Had to stop last Sunday. Lady asked me where I was coming from, told her Lake Havasu, she stated " Have a nice one" and sent us on our way.

Ziggy
07-14-2006, 07:48 AM
I'll be sure to eat my apple before I get to it :)

Havasu_Dreamin
07-14-2006, 07:52 AM
Had to stop last Sunday. Lady asked me where I was coming from, told her Lake Havasu, she stated " Have a nice one" and sent us on our way.
We were just waved thru. Had to have been the first time in 2-3 years someone was actually there to even wave us thru.

Huckleberry
07-14-2006, 07:54 AM
So things are back the way they used to be. I always wondered why they stopped checking folks at this station.

MR HARLEY
07-14-2006, 07:57 AM
We were just waved thru. Had to have been the first time in 2-3 years someone was actually there to even wave us thru.
Were you towing a boat back?

Havasu_Dreamin
07-14-2006, 07:58 AM
Were you towing a boat back?
No, boat stays in the garage.

MR HARLEY
07-14-2006, 08:00 AM
No, boat stays in the garage.
Guess they didnt like what they saw when our car approached them. :D Saw a couple trucks trailering boats being waived on thru, but of course not me. :crossx:

a catered life
07-14-2006, 08:31 AM
better find another way to bring my fireworks supply in for next year :p

Kachina26
07-14-2006, 08:37 AM
So things are back the way they used to be. I always wondered why they stopped checking folks at this station.
They closed up shop during the budget crisis back in 2003.

Waldo
07-14-2006, 08:42 AM
better find another way to bring my fireworks supply in for next year :p
Or your illegal animals! People used to smuggle ferrets into Cali when they were not legal.

plaster dave
07-14-2006, 09:47 AM
Had to stop last Sunday. Lady asked me where I was coming from, told her Lake Havasu, she stated " Have a nice one" and sent us on our way.
Same here.

Debbolas
07-14-2006, 01:55 PM
Man, that's scarey............I had to sneak some Spanish Moss through the station in Blythe once.......I'm NOT a good smuggler;)
:skull: :skull: :skull:

ThongMagnet
07-14-2006, 03:15 PM
Man, that's scarey............I had to sneak some Spanish Moss through the station in Blythe once.......I'm NOT a good smuggler;)
:skull: :skull: :skull:
Whats that??? Some special mexican pot :rolleyes:

Debbolas
07-14-2006, 03:16 PM
No, spanish moss from the trees around a swamp in Cato lake in Lousiana.
It just grows there on the trees, so I brought some back to grow at home, but it died, cause, ya know we live in a desert.... :skull:

ThongMagnet
07-14-2006, 03:18 PM
No, spanish moss from the trees around a swamp in Cato lake in Lousiana.
It just grows there on the trees, so I brought some back to grow at home, but it died, cause, ya know we live in a desert.... :skull:
Would that be cajun moss :idea:

Debbolas
07-14-2006, 03:19 PM
ok, but my Big Daddy and Uncle Fats' called it Spanish Moss :skull:

76ANTHONY
07-14-2006, 03:28 PM
thanks for the update

Debbolas
07-14-2006, 03:28 PM
anything for you
:skull:

76ANTHONY
07-14-2006, 03:29 PM
anything for you
:skull:
thank you

Debbolas
07-14-2006, 03:34 PM
no problem