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Toxic fumes * USA - Diesel truckers at cancer risk from exhaust
Trucking company workers who have been regularly exposed to diesel exhaust from vehicles on highways, city streets and loading docks have a higher risk of lung cancer than other workers
San Francisco,CA, USA -The San Fracisco Chronicle , by Jane Kay -December 9, 2008: -- According to a new national study, based on 31,135 worker records, found that drivers who do short-haul pickups and deliveries, including loading and unloading containers at ports and working at freight-delivery companies, had the highest rate of deaths and disease... Dockworkers were also at a higher risk, according to the report by researchers at UC Berkeley and Harvard... California's Air Resources Board will consider the study's findings when it meets Friday to vote on a landmark regulation to reduce risk to the general public from 1 million diesel trucks in the state... If the rule is adopted, California would be the first state in the nation to require a retrofit or replacement of every privately owned older, heavy-duty diesel truck on the road - even vehicles registered in other states and nations. The phaseout would begin in 2010... (Photo by Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle - Trucks moving along Seventh Street in Oakland create dangerous exhaust that truckers often inhale)* State air monitors gunning for diesel
CAL,USA -Truck drivers Industry News, by radiomancb -December 8, 2008: -- California’s air-quality regulators once again find their pursuit of aggressive public health safeguards in conflict with the economy... This time, the state Air Resources Board is closing in on diesel soot emissions from nearly 1 million trucks... The proposed regulations – considered to be the nation’s most restrictive – would require many truckers to either gradually replace their rigs or install anti-pollution devices starting in 2010, depending on the model year and fleet size. By 2023, most diesel rigs “would have the cleanest engines available,” according to an air board report... Truckers have prepared alternatives, including providing more time to comply and exemptions if proven clean technology is not readily available... The industry also proposes a hand-me-down program that it says will help clean the air without economic hardship. First, the state would buy trucks required to have soot-cleaning equipment installed. Then, after being retrofitted, those trucks could be used to replace some of the oldest and dirtiest rigs that are exempt from the regulations because they are driven so few miles. Operators who sell their vehicles initially to the state could use the money to buy new trucks... “We want to take the oldest vintage trucks and scrap them as quickly as we can. They pollute the most,” said Ramorino, the trucking association president...
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