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LP gas board | comments & reviews by: R DeWayne Whiddon

s you read this article, I hope everyone had board meetings in the same building. It is a larger office
a blessed holiday and had an opportunity space that facilitates the board's growth and expanded
to spend time with their family and friends. role. It will provide us with more secure storage space,
AAs busy as we are during the winter heating an expanded testing area, and larger meeting rooms,
season, family and friends are the most important making our office more efficient. We hope to complete
areas of our lives. Please be careful and return home the move by the end of January 2025. The new office
to them every day. There is only one you in the entire will be open by February 1, 2025, and all testing and
world, and to some, you are their entire world. future board meetings will be held at this new location.
It is bittersweet that the Liquefied Petroleum Gas All phone numbers and email addresses
Board announces the retirement of Inspector Walter will remain the same. There should be a minimal
Endress. Inspector Endress is retiring after over 21 interruption of our normal day-to-day activities. The
years of dedicated service as the Northeast territory plan is for the current office to stay open until the
inspector. Walt officially retired on December 1, 2024. close of business on Friday, January 31, 2025, and we
Walt has been an asset to the LP-Gas Board, and we will reopen at the new location on Monday, February
hate to see him leave. Walt has been a fixture in the 3, 2025. Tractor trailers and bobtails will still be
Northeast territory, often going above and beyond the prohibited in the parking lot, just as with the current
call of duty. He has been a dedicated mentor and friend building and testing area.
to all in the industry. His shoes will truly be hard to Until we move, the weekly Wednesday testing
fill. All the board members and staff here at the LP-Gas will still be conducted at the building next to the
Board wish him all the best and many happy retirement current Board offices. We have signs to direct test
years. takers to the parking area and the door to the current

In other news, the board is in the process of testing facility. As a reminder, Exam participants should
moving to new office space. The new office will be leave all cell phones and other electronic devices in
located at Halcyon Pointe III, 7480 Halcyon Pointe their vehicles and only bring the five approved books
Drive, Suite 100, Montgomery, Alabama. It is next door to the test building. Those approved materials are
to the Alabama Trucking Association building. This new NFPA 54, NFPA 58, NFPA 1192, and the LP-Gas Board
location will allow us to hold testing and the quarterly Administrative Code and the LP-Gas Board Laws. The
Board only provides copies
of the Board Laws and
Administrative code books;
the exam participant must
supply all other resource
Bobtails to Bulkplants materials.
This month’s quarterly
meeting of the Alabama LP-
Gas Board will be January 09,
2024, at 10:00 a.m. at 770 S.
McDonough St, Montgomery,
New Bobtails Betts Vapor Proof Lights: New Installations AL. A good source of
Refurbished Bobtails complete stock of lights, lens Maintenance & Repairs
Hydrostatic Testing & accessories All Work Performed to NFPA 58 current information on
Annual VK Inspections Truck Meter & Code Upgrades board activities is available
Annual DOT Inspections Dispenser Calibration Storage Plant Acquisition & Removal
Base Engineering Shutdown at our website at www.lpgb.
alabama.gov. Everyone is
FREE ESTIMATES welcome to stop by the

40 Industry Drive Jason Gamble, Owner (256) 593-2420 Board offices whenever they
Boaz, AL 35956 (205) 616-9084 (800) 757-6639 are in the area.■
Email: lptrucks256@aol.com Fax: (256) 593-2460

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