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Something Was Wrong * USA - Taking a message to the streets
A planned caravan of 100 big rigs with a clean-air message falls short, and few commuters notice
Los Angeles,CA,USA -Los Angeles Times by Tiffany Hsu & Rong-Gong Lin II -June 28, 2007: -- Los Angeles has seen demonstrations, but civil disobedience on an L.A. freeway is tough, as truckers learned Wednesday... Their effort to have an intimidating convoy roll down the 110 Freeway from downtown Los Angeles to the Port of Long Beach didn't seem to faze motorists used to bad traffic. Officials and traffic reporters had warned that the protest by truckers could cause a traffic headache, with organizers promising a caravan of 100 big rigs. The truckers, part of the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports, were supporting a draft plan by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to slash diesel pollution from trucks by 80% in five years. The plan would require replacement or renovation of the oldest and dirtiest trucks with trucking companies, not the drivers, facing higher costs... But at the Exposition Park staging area for the protest, it quickly became clear something was wrong: Only 27 big rigs showed up...
* Ports delay decision on port overhaul plan until September
CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine (Grain Valley,MO), By Charlie Morasch -June 28, 2007: -- Officials from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach emerged from a closed-door meeting Wednesday and announced they were delaying consideration of its emissions-busting Clean Trucks Program, which offered sweeping changes to port operations including banning owner-operators from entering the port... The proposed plan has been criticized for its broad changes that many have said go beyond the plan’s stated goal of lowering emissions. The California Trucking Association and an attorney of the American Trucking Association and the Waterfront Coalition of retail and agricultural shippers have vehemently opposed the plan, which has several similarities to a formal proposal made by the Teamsters-backed Coalition for Clean Air... Officials for the ports issued a joint news release Wednesday, June 27, saying they will undertake an economic impact study and assemble an industry task force to study and recommend specifics for the operations changes... Outside Wednesday’s closed-door meeting, Los Angeles news cameras hovered above southbound lanes of the 110 Freeway and filmed an estimated 20 trucks convoyed in support of the new plan...
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