Minority Truckers Not Needed at Brightwater

A group of minority truckers operating as the Truckers Consortium was notified last week that they would not be used on King County’s $1.8 billion sewage treatment project at Brightwater.

The change occurred when a subcontractor, L&J Construction of Cle Elum, that the Consortium members were going to work for, was replaced on the remainder of the project by a different contractor, the large international construction firm, Parsons.

Despite the blow to the small contractors that make up the Truckers Consortium, King County asserted that the project would still meet its goal of 10% of the work going to small businesses.

The Truckers Consortium is a creative and unique initiative in which ten small trucking firms have banded together to help obtain business together.

For more details on this story, read the article in the Seattle Times.