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Urine bottles found along N.B. highwaysSource: CBC News
Posted: 05/26/08 1:12PM
Filed Under: Canada
Highway officials say dozens of bottles of urine are being found along the sides of roads, tossed away by drivers who can't be bothered to find a washroom.
Most of the so-called pee jugs are from transport trucks parked on exit ramps, according to the company responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Fredericton-Moncton highway in southern New Brunswick.
"Some of the larger vehicles on our highways that travel long distances, when they stop overnight, they'll stop on the side of the road on the ramps, the on-ramps or the off-ramps," said Ross Mathers, of MRDC Operations Corporation.
"And at night or in the morning, they seem to want to empty their trucks and out come some of these jugs."
The trend is frustrating for MRDC staff, who have to empty and dispose of the bottles each time one is found.
Mathers says he'd like to see long-haul drivers using more rest rooms, or have toilet facilities installed in the transport trucks themselves if drivers are not willing to stop.
"I suspect there are those kind of technologies, but as most technologies, it takes time to implement them in all the trucks. So the newer trucks may have those and the more elaborate ones, but the older ones wouldn't."
He said drivers could be ticketed for littering if they continue throwing their jugs out the window.
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Urine bottles found along N.B. highwaysSource: CBC News
Posted: 05/26/08 1:12PM
Filed Under: Canada
Highway officials say dozens of bottles of urine are being found along the sides of roads, tossed away by drivers who can't be bothered to find a washroom.
Most of the so-called pee jugs are from transport trucks parked on exit ramps, according to the company responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Fredericton-Moncton highway in southern New Brunswick.
"Some of the larger vehicles on our highways that travel long distances, when they stop overnight, they'll stop on the side of the road on the ramps, the on-ramps or the off-ramps," said Ross Mathers, of MRDC Operations Corporation.
"And at night or in the morning, they seem to want to empty their trucks and out come some of these jugs."
The trend is frustrating for MRDC staff, who have to empty and dispose of the bottles each time one is found.
Mathers says he'd like to see long-haul drivers using more rest rooms, or have toilet facilities installed in the transport trucks themselves if drivers are not willing to stop.
"I suspect there are those kind of technologies, but as most technologies, it takes time to implement them in all the trucks. So the newer trucks may have those and the more elaborate ones, but the older ones wouldn't."
He said drivers could be ticketed for littering if they continue throwing their jugs out the window.
