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"CLEAN TRUCKS"· PROGRAM * USA - Truckers worry about meeting 2010 truck ban
CAL,USA -Pacific Shipper, by BILL MONGELLUZZO -December 22, 2008: -- Harbor truckers in Los Angeles-Long Beach are looking ahead to Jan. 1, 2010, and they’re getting nervous... Barely a year from now, the nation’s busiest container ports will swing into the next phase of their clean-trucks rules, and banish as many as 12,000 pre-2004 model vehicles unless they are retrofitted to reduce emissions. That total represents 75 percent of the harbor drayage fleet... Trucks built before 1989 already have been banned from the harbor under a program designed to reduce the ports’ air pollution from trucks by 80 percent over the next five years... The second phase of the clean-trucks program calls for banning pre-1994 trucks at the start of 2010 and retrofitting the 1994-2003 trucks with particulate traps. It’s unlikely that motor carriers will be able to replace 12,000 trucks with new vehicles — costing about $100,000 each — during the next year. And as of now, there is no certified retrofit device that will meet the ports’ standards... The situation is raising concern about a possible shortage of trucking capacity in the harbor... (Photo: Thousands of trucks will be banned from the ports 12 months from now and truckers worry about funding replacements)Labels: "Clean Trucks" Program
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