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Happy - USA - ATA Applauds Trucking Fairness Legislation for California Intermodal Carriers
ALEXANDRIA, Va., USA -US. Newswire -3 Oct 2005: -- The American Trucking Associations (ATA) and its Intermodal Motor Carrier Conference welcomes new trucking fairness legislation signed into law in by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Sept. 22... The legislation, initiated by the California Trucking Association and strongly supported by ATA and the IMCC, brings to an end years of unfair intermodal billing practices, particularly arbitrary and excessive fee assessments and termination of interchange rights, against intermodal motor carriers moving containers primarily between ports, terminals and cargo customers... The new law prohibits ocean carriers, railroads, and marine terminal operators from imposing arbitrary per diem, detention, or demurrage charges on motor carriers when trucks transporting container cargo are delayed by such events as port gate closures, labor disruptions, unanticipated equipment diversions, terminal congestion and weekends or holidays -- billing practices which have become commonplace in port operations in California and throughout the country...
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