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Clean Truck Options * USA - Husing Report Details Pros and Cons of
Long Beach,CA,USA -The Cunningham Report -9 March 2008: -- A draft study by economist John Husing and consultant Thomas E. Brightbill of the various options for cleaning up the drayage truck fleet at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports has found that any of three options would result in cleaner trucks, but that each option has its own advantages and disadvantages... After receiving Husing's draft report, Los Angeles hired Boston Consulting Group to do the same study. That draft study was presented at the Port of Los Angeles Commission meeting on Thursday.
* Option A would require the trucking companies to own their own trucks, hire employee-drivers, and turn in a company-owned older truck for scrap in order to get a new truck subsidy.
* Option B would allow companies to own their own trucks, contract with owner-operators for their workforce, or have some combination of owner-operators and some employees. Both trucking companies and owner-operators would be eligible for a truck subsidy, but only if they turned in an old truck to be scrapped. If the company continued to use owner-operators they would have to maintain the same percentage revenue-split with the drivers that they have historically offered.
* Option C would allow companies to own their own trucks but use only those owner-operators who were already draying port cago at the beginning of the program. In other words, current owner-operators would be grandfathered in, but as those drivers left the business or traffic through the port expanded, new drivers would have to be employees.
Of all the options, Option C would be the most difficult to manage and track with the trucking companies having control over part of the work force and little control over the rest. It also would run into opposition from both the labor-environmental lobby and the trucking companies...
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