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CLEAN TRUCK PROGRAM * USA - Program Produces Lots Of Concessions, Few Scrapped Trucks
Los Angeles,CAL, USA -The Cunningham Report -13 Dec 2008: -- One measure of the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles clean truck programs is whether the ports finally have a handle on what kinds of trucks are frequenting their terminals and how much pollution those trucks emit... By that standard, the program is a smashing success. Less than three months after the launch, the two ports have 16,340 trucks fully registered in their Drayage Truck Registry. That number approximates the 16,800 trucks believed to be frequent and semi-frequent callers to the ports... Another measure is whether there are fewer dirty trucks on the road. By that standard, success has eluded the ports. Under the two ports' grant program, only five older trucks have been scrapped and replaced by 2007 U.S. EPA compliant models. Eight more have been scrapped under a Port of Los Angeles-only buyback program that pays $5,000 per truck, for a total of 13 trucks destroyed so far. Another 30 trucks are waiting to be scrapped under the buyback program, although the Port of Los Angeles has yet to contract with a scrapping company for its alternative program...* OPINION - California trucks could be next on the endangered list
CAL,USA -you should know, by Jason Hall -December 14, 2008: -- Mary Nichols chair of the California Air Resources Board and others voted unanimously this month make it even tougher for goods and services to be delivered by trucks. This woman looks as though she really has a grasp on the business of transportation... What they have mandated is that all trucks over 14,000 lbs and bigger than a F350 or a GM 3500, will have to install filters on their trucks to filter out diesel fumes. By the way this will cost approx. $12,000 per vehicle. This not only places undue burdens on C.A. trucks but also any truck that would enter this great socialist state... This Air Resources Board has effectively cut them selves off from the rest of the country, which is not necessarily a bad thing... The fact that California seems to not heed to the peoples will explains why this type of ruling would never have been put to a vote, namely because it would have been soundly defeated... The reasoning for the genesis of this lousy REGULATION is to supposedly save the lives of 9,400 people between 2011 and 2025. This is from the fumes of trucks at loading docks and other places where trucks and people work together... What will the air resources board will do if the lives they are going to save die by other means; such as, I dunno, the caffeine in the coffee that dock workers drink or the fast food they eat or diabetes that they will get by eating doughnuts or if they are killed by drunk drivers on their way home from work. More than 3,000 people a year are killed on Americas road ways, not to mention the fog in areas of California that cause millions in damage every year. Is the California Air Resources Board going to require that interstates have fog filters installed... All of this during a time of economic hardships. And what does the “Govenator” have to say about this economic nut crusher. Yeah that what I thought also…nothing... This state should be looked at as a warning to the rest of the nation, as to what can happen when you let the loonies run the asylum...
* Truckers, Dockworkers Have Higher Lung Cancer Risk
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Cunningham Report -13 Dec 2008: -- Trucking industry workers exposed to vehicle exhaust have an elevated risk of lung cancer, and that risk increases the more years the worker is on the job, according to a study just released by CARB and the EPA. The study looked at work records and causes of death of 31,000 Teamsters between 1985 and 2000 and examined lung cancer mortality and employment duration in certain job categories, including dockworkers, clerks and mechanics... The analysis was limited to men older than 39 years of age in 1985 with at least one year in the trucking industry. The study found that lung cancer mortality risks were elevated in workers with jobs associated with regular exposure to diesel and other vehicle exhaust, and that risk increased with more years on the job...
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