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Clean Trucks Program * USA - Port Scraps Employee Driver Provision
The Port of Long Beach announced Friday that it will not require short-haul truck drivers to become motor carrier employees as part of its $2 billion clean air program
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Los Angeles Business Journal, by RICHARD CLOUGH -15 Feb 2008: -- The port said it will vote Feb. 19 on a concession model for its Clean Trucks Program that will allow independent contract drivers to continue operating... The announcement is a turnabout in strategy by the port, which has been criticized by the trucking industry for how it plans to implement a joint plan with the Port of Los Angeles to replace 16,000 short-haul diesel trucks with cleaner-burning models... Under the new Long Beach plan, the port will offer three financing options to truckers who want to access a $2 billion fund to replace their trucks: lease to own, grants for an engine retrofit or grants for the purchase of a new truck...
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