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Pollution & Subsidies * USA - Port drivers back plan for less-ones
About 300 drivers of the dirtiest and oldest trucks servicing the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex gathered in Wilmington this morning to support a plan to impose stricter pollution standards on harbor vehicles
Los Angeles, CA,USA -The Los Angeles Times, by Louis Sahagun & Ronald D. White -June 5, 2007: -- Port authorities and environmentalists were encouraged by the strong show of support for the plan designed to cut air pollution from trucks by 80% within five years... The proposed program would scrap and replace the oldest trucks, and retrofit the others, with the assistance of a port-sponsored grant subsidy... Among the speakers was Edgar Sanchez, 48, who said it would be all but impossible to clean up his rig without a subsidy. He is among the area's 16,000 mostly low-income drivers working at the nation's busiest port complex...
* New port plan draws criticism - Drivers would be able to organize; trucking group says pollution rules unfair
Long Beach,CA,USA -The Long Beach Press-Telegram, by Donna Littlejohn -5 June 2007: -- A plan to overhaul the port trucking industry was hailed Tuesday by drivers who forsee more stable jobs and enough money to afford necessities such as medical insurance for their families... But questions remain, along with hints of a possible lawsuit by the California Trucking Association... The association has criticized the plan, questioning the ports' authority under federal and state law to change the industry's business model. The plan also would allow the Teamsters union to organize port truckers for the first time since deregulation in 1980... Included in the sweeping San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan is an eventual ban on all older, polluting trucks from serving the ports... The progressive bans would begin with all pre-1989 trucks by Jan. 1, 2008. More truck model years will be added incrementally until all trucks serving the ports will be either new or retrofitted models... Under the plan, container trucks that do not meet the port clean-air standards by January would be charged a gate fee of about $34 for each terminal visit. Most pre-1994 trucks - and eventually all older trucks - would not meet standards... The plan also will do away with the current owner-operator system in which truck drivers must pay to maintain their own trucks. Many of the vehicles in the aging, polluting fleet are 10 years old or older...
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