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Clean Truck Program * USA - Seattle To Unveil On October 14
Long Beach,CA,USA -The Cunningham Report -14 Sept 2008: -- While Southern California ports battle lawsuits in an effort to implement their Clean Trucks Program, officials in Seattle are taking note. The staff there plans to present their proposed clean truck program to the port commission on October 14. The goal of the Seattle program is to eliminate pre-1994-model trucks by 2010 and 80 percent of the pre-2007 models by 2015. By 2017, they want to take all pre-2007 trucks off the road... Approximately 20 percent of the 1,800 to 2,000 drayage trucks now serving the Port of Seattle fall into the pre-1994 category. The goal of Seattle's program will be to work with the trucking industry to develop voluntary incentives - rather than mandates - for truckers and trucking companies to retrofit trucks. The port is looking at grant funding and working with local banks to discuss financing programs for truckers...
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