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Tractor Trials * USA - Los Angeles is coming down hard on polluting terminal tugs
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Port Strategy (Fareham,UK), Stuart Pearcey -9 Jul 2008: -- The days of vehicle pollution - alleged to cause 1,200 premature deaths a year in Los Angeles - became numbered last month when city councillors approved the Clean Truck Program, a plan to slash by 80% emissions from terminal tractors... But for LA it’s not the long haul that’s the problem; rather it’s millions of short ones made by 16,000 ‘elderly’ diesel trucks between the quayside, a nearby intermodal terminal and other warehousing facilities no more than 10 miles away... To achieve the step change in emissions, the diesel-engined tractors will be phased out in favour of the first electric ones in any port worldwide. There are likely to be fewer of them too, since the port aims to move away from its ‘one truck, one driver’ tradition to several drivers on different shifts sharing just one vehicle... Manufacturer Balqon is poised to start building tractors that cost little more than 10 pence (20 cents) a mile to run, working on land made available by the port... (Picture: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: "Los Angeles is committed to a clean truck programme.")Labels: "Clean Trucks" Program
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