Clean Trucks Program in Los Angeles / Long Beach approved
February 20, 2008 by SwizStick
Filed under Seafreight
We’ve commented and linked before on the trucking industry’s opposition to certain elements of the Clean Trucks Program that the ports of Los Angeles / Long Beach have been considering, the main sticky point being the fact that the program would have excluded all independent owner-operated rigs, granting access only to company-owned trucks and drivers. Well, the Clean Trucks Program has been approved, and the good news for the local drayage industry is that the final version has eliminated this exclusionary and potentially costly aspect of the plan:
The program sets up a system for identifying and monitoring the trucks that enter the port so they can be monitored for compliance with security, maintenance and health insurance requirements.
Trucks operated by independent drivers or part of a trucking company fleet will be eligible to register for the program. Early drafts of the plan would have restricted access only to trucks operated by trucking companies, edging out the thousands of independent owner-operators that now haul cargo through the port and its neighboring Port of Los Angeles.
In other good news for cargo owners, they have agreed to push back the date when they will be assessing the $35 container fee:
The commission also adopted other elements of the program, including a proposal to push back the date when it will begin charging a $35 fee per loaded cargo container to October 1. It had previously been set for June 1.
That measure, approved in December, is expected to raise around $1.6 billion to help pay to replace thousands of older diesel trucks with cleaner-burning models.
The commission voted on a $2 billion financing plan for truck owners looking to upgrade their vehicles.
A big hat tip to World Trade Magazine.
Image Source – futureatlas.com
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