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CLEAN TRUCKS PROGRAM * USA - A day after: Old diesels banned at ports
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach formally launched a $1.6 billion initiative Wednesday, aimed at reducing diesel truck emissions by 80 percent within five yearsTorrance,CA,USA -The Daily Breeze, by Art Marroquin -1 Oct 2008: --... The first phase of the Clean Trucks Program immediately bans about 2,000 diesel trucks built before 1989, comprising 10 percent of the rigs that haul goods to and from the nation's busiest port complex. The move is expected to remove 350 tons of harmful diesel emissions, which make up about 30 percent of the pollution generated by trucks each year... Truck traffic dropped by up to one-third at some terminals on Wednesday morning, but operations gradually picked up by midafternoon, according to officials at both ports... Additionally, about 5 to 10percent of the trucks trying to enter port terminals were turned away for failing to comply with the program... Police officers from both ports stood at the gates of terminals Wednesday to ensure truck drivers were complying with the plan. Drivers prominently displayed orange windshield stickers to access the Port of Long Beach, while a purple decal was emblazoned on trucks entering the Port of Los Angeles...
To illustrate that pre-1989 trucks are no longer welcome in the twin ports complex, one was destroyed Wednesday at the SA Recycling plant near the Port of Los Angeles... Trucker Jorge Sibrian quietly watched as his 1985 big rig was ripped apart like an aluminum soda can. A large metal claw attached to a crane tore into the old truck, which was crushed into hundreds of pieces no bigger than a fist... (Photos by Steve McCrank / The Associated Press - 1 (above)· Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa leaps out of a Port of LA electric truck at the launch of the ports' green trucks program - Photo 2 (below) · A semi-truck is destroyed at SA Recycling as part of the Clean Truck Program on Wednesday)Labels: "Clean Trucks" Program
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