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CLEAN TRUCKS * USA - L.A. Recommended Truck Plan Would Phase In Employee-Drivers
Long Beach,CA,USA -The Cunningham Report -17 March 2008: -- The Port of Los Angeles has posted its final recommendations for a Clean Truck Program, calling for a gradual phase-in of employee-drivers that would require all trucking companies with a concession to serve the port to use only employee-drivers by 2012... The port says the plan would include market incentives to encourage private investment and create a capitalized, asset-based drayage system. The plan will be considered by the Los Angeles Board at its Thursday morning meeting in Wilmington...
The Los Angeles Clean Trucks program would also:
- Exempt all privately funded 2007 complaint trucks from the $35-per-TEU clean trucks fee.
- Exempt all LNG, electric, or alternative fuel vehicles from the fee, even if they are publicly funded. No exemption will be given to publicly funded clean-diesel trucks. (The Port of Long Beach exempts privately funded alternative-fueled trucks, but offers only a 50 percent discount to privately funded clean-diesel trucks.)
- Concessionaires who pay for their own trucks will not have to turn in an old truck to scrap as part of the permit application.
- Concessionaires will pay a $2,500 fee, plus an annual fee of $100 per truck.
- Financing will be provided to concessionaires only, providing grants up to 80 percent of the purchase of a 2007 diesel or LNG truck.
- Low-cost leasing options will be provided.
- Retrofits meeting 2007 emissions standards also will be funded in full.
- Port-financed or leased trucks must be used as full-time drayage vehicles with an average minimum of six trips per week...
Time is growing short for the program, which is scheduled to begin Oct. 1, when all pre-1989 trucks will be banned from both ports...
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