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"Clean Trucks" Program * USA - Feds oppose new truck plan
Federal authorities are warning port executives to scrap a driver employee provision in their Clean Trucks program or face serious legal challenges
Long Beach,CA,USA -The Long Beach Press-Telegram, by Kristopher Hanson -29 Oct 2007: -- ... In a letter dated Oct. 23, a top official at the Department of Transportation makes it clear that feds do not back a port solution to clean up harbor trucking by requiring that motor carriers purchase and maintain new, low-emission vehicles to service waterfront terminals... Signed by U.S. Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton, the letter claims any attempts to regulate who drives trucks will almost surely end up disrupting the flow of cargo through the nation's busiest seaport... "Any governmental effort at the local level to `restructure' this important industry is fraught with legal and economic risk," Connaughton writes. "I urge you to seek an effective compromise between proponents and critics of the truck plan, to ensure that port-related truck emissions are reduced and freight flows through the ports and region remain unimpeded"... Sent to port executive directors Richard Steinke in Long Beach and Geraldine Knatz in Los Angeles, the letter urges authorities to reconsider their approach...
* Port Delays Vote on Truck Ban
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Los Angeles Business Journal, by RICHARD CLOUGH -29 Oct 2007: -- The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners postponed a vote Monday on setting a timeline to implement a controversial plan to replace the ports’ oldest and most-polluting trucks... The board delayed the vote with little comment at its weekly meeting, but later the port issued a press release saying that it wanted to reconcile its proposed timeline with one that Los Angeles port officials are set to consider on Thursday...
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