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Clean Truck Program * USA - Port of Long Beach’s opponents say, go beyond clean air into labor organization
* Shipper says it has met Long Beach truck standard
OOIDA: Plan will exclude long-haul drivers who make occasional port visits, and force owner-operators to pay additional fees to drivers with access
CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -January 17, 2008: -- A major Asian shipper says it already has complied with the port of Long Beach’s Clean Truck Program... Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line officials announced they would voluntarily stop using trucks with pre-1990 engines in January, ahead of the port’s Oct. 1 deadline, according to a company news release... Other parts of the twin ports’ Clean Truck Program have been criticized for what opponents say go beyond clean air into labor organization... Also, each port plan to consider approving in February a plan backed by the Teamsters Union to require all truck drivers to be company employees, and to limit port entry to trucks from companies that are licensed by the port as concessionaires... OOIDA has expressed concerns that the Teamsters-backed plan will exclude long-haul drivers who make occasional port visits, and force owner-operators to pay additional fees to drivers with access. OOIDA officials met with the Federal Maritime Commission in October 2007 to convey those concerns...
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