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"Clean Trucks Program" * USA - Clean-burning trucks & employee drivers, would lower health-related costs
Truck rules to improve healthLong Beach,CAL,USA -The Long Beach Press-Telegram, by Kristopher Hanson -7 Sept 2007: -- A new economic study shows that using employee truck drivers and clean-burning trucks for port drayage would significantly drive up transportation costs, but save lives and reduce health care costs in local harbor communities... The study, led by trade economist John Husing and released Friday, notes an economic benefit of between $4.7 and $5.9 billion in health care costs over 20 years... Those savings would come primarily from reduced hospital stays, fewer deaths and less missed work caused by health problems blamed, in part, on more than 16,000 soot-spewing diesel trucks doing business in and around the port complex daily... The report looks at the business impact of a port-sponsored plan to establish taxicab-style concessions for drivers hauling cargo to and from terminals in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles... The controversial plan, known as the "Clean Trucks Program," would give concessions to motor carriers using the cleanest trucks driven by employee drivers... Companies not meeting the conditions would be excluded from lucrative marine terminals in the nation's largest seaport - which combined handles more than 16 million containers annually... (Photo from kpff Los Angeles - Pier T Marine Terminal, Port of Long Beach)
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