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RULES * USA - Port of Long Beach approves restrictive truck measures
Long,Beach,CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine , by Charlie Morasch-February 20, 2008: -- The Port of Long Beach approved a complicated new concessionaire licensing program on Tuesday, Feb. 19, that’s intended to cut pollution but likely will shut large numbers of long-haul owner-operators out of the port... The final phase of the three-part clean truck program allows independent owner-operators and company drivers port access if they meet a series of conditions, including:
- Pay $250 application fee and $100 per truck each year;
- Tag trucks with radio frequency identification devices;
- Agree to port-approved scheduled maintenance;
- Agree to anti-terrorism cab inspection; and
- Gain port approval as a licensed concessionaire.
The clean truck concessionaire plan has the potential to slow freight movement and hurt owner-operators throughout the nation if other ports imitate Long Beach, OOIDA officials have warned... Owner-operators and OOIDA members, however, wonder why the concessionaire program is truly necessary. If the stated goal is cleaning up dirty air, aren’t the newest, lowest-emission trucks good enough to come into the port without forking over the fees for a license?... “Obviously, this isn’t about clean air,” said Joe Rajkovacz, OOIDA regulatory affairs specialist. “Nothing in this concessionaire agreement is about clean air”...
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