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Wingfoot/JB Hunt Inspection 5/30/06 Routine inspection of Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems at 405 Gandy Dancer Drive, Tracy, performed this date by Jenni Ruiz,REHS,with EHS Trainee, Toua Yang. Inspection began with Bit,the Plant Manager. By request, Bit gave a twenty-minute tour of the tire retreading facility before the inspection began in order to explain the retreading process. After the tour,the site was inspected for Tire Storage Standards and used and waste tires were counted to total about 400 waste tires and 700-800 used tires. Bit explained that a trailer of used tires, not yet recapped, was being shipped within the hour by JB Hunt to a rail yard in Stockton. I asked if the carrier would leave a Used and Waste Tire Manifest. Bit did not know, but explained that the Office Manager would be returning soon. In the meantime, Bit located tire manifests for documentation of Wingfoot waste tire disposal by Golden By Products. Office Manager,Neil Royel, arrived and provided CTLs, Waste Tire Manifests and Trip Logs. Present were Bit and Felix, who is a hauler for Wingfoot. Discussion ensued regarding the CTLs that should be reflecting the delivery of customer tires to the Wingfoot plant. As the inspection was being completed,the driver for JB Hunt arrived to remove the trailer of used tires. He was not going to manifest the load, he said,because he was out of Arkansas and he was transporting under a Federal Railway Freight Log, so the California Manifesting Requirements were not applicable to him. He further explained that the trailer currently holding the tires was a railway carrier,not a regular over-the-road trailer, which was why Wingfoot was not hauling the load for themselves. The CIWMB Waste Tire Hotline was called for direction,but the student could not locate an immediate source of help. Meanwhile, the driver for JB Hunt phoned his corporate office. JB Hunt Corporate office instructed the driver to leave the load of tires behind because company policy does not allow used tires to be hauled by their trucks. No tires were hauled by JB Hunt. The inspection was completed (15-1013780). Appointment was set for 6/02/06 at 11:30 to re-train haulers and managers to fill out CTLs properly. At that time,the situation with JB Hunt will be discussed further to ensure understanding of future hauls by contracted companies.