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CLEAN TRUCKS DEBATE * USA - Truckers Grind Gears Over Subsidies
Newcomers get cash for clean vehicles to veterans’ dismay
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Los Angeles Business Journal, by RICHARD CLOUGH -1 Sept 2008: -- A recent move by the Port of Los Angeles to spur interest in its fast-approaching program to replace old diesel trucks is drawing outrage from small local motor carriers that believe they are being unfairly driven out of the port freight business... The port unexpectedly approved a pair of incentive programs Aug. 21 that would award as much as $30,000 per truck to motor carriers operating less-polluting new diesel rigs as a way to encourage them to service the port... But since most of the small local trucking companies will have to pay tens of thousand of dollars to buy new trucks, they are at a distinct disadvantage to larger firms, some motor carriers say... The new incentives were prompted, officials said, by concerns that there will not be enough approved short haul trucks when the program starts Oct. 1... On that date, all trucks built before 1989 will be banned from the port. Even cleaner trucks will be required in the future... However, the result has been that at least three big out-of-state motor carriers that have new fleets already meeting the program’s guidelines are in line to receive millions of dollars in subsidies – while taking work away from smaller, local carriers... Meanwhile, smaller local trucking companies say the way the port’s incentives are now structured is tilted in favor of large carriers, some of whom not only may be out of state but may even have never served the ports...
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